The Elbert County tribune., 1913-01-31
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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
January 2z, 1868.

Sixty-Eighth Missouri militia, and
large number of Confederate par
tisans driven from the town, with a
loss OF fifty-two prisoners, seventy
horses with their trappings. and a
hundred stands of arms. The Union
lists met with no loss.
Fort McAllister, on Genesis Point,
Great Ogeechee river. Fla. was at
tackled by the monitor Montauk, un-
der the command of Captain John l..
Worden. three gunboats. and a NOR
tar schooner. The attack was re-
pulsed after bombardment of many
hours, which failed to reduce the de-
fenses appreciably.
A. d. Boileau, proprietor of the
Philadelphia Evening Journal. was ar
rested by order of the National gov.
ernment and taken to Washington.
Captain Williamson of General
Weitzers brigade had fight with a
small body of Confederate troops at
Indian Village, on the Bayou Plaque
mine, Louisiana, and succeeded in
routing them without great loss to the
Union force.
January 2s, 1868.
A large and enthusiastic meeting
was held at st. Louis, Mo-, to ratify
the emancipation proclamation.
The National Brigadier General
| Schofield sent the following message
| to General Curtis from his headquar-
tetrs at Springfield. Mo-: Colonel
Harrison telegraphs from Fayettes-
A. aP itrQf rc.
turned from Van Buren, Mo-, having
captured the steamer Julia Rean and
| 300 prisoners, about 200 of whom were
paroled The scout consisted Of 130
men of the first Arkansas cavalry and
| Tenth Illinois cavalry, under the COM
mand of Lieutenant Colonel Stewart.
No losses on our side. On that of
the enemy, two killed and several
wounded"
A heavy snow storm prevailed on
the Rappahannock river, in Virginia,
which, melting as it fell, put the roads
in wretched condition.
January 2s, 1868.
The British iron steamer Princess
Royal laden with rified guns, arms,
ammunition steam engines, and so
| forth, was captured off Charleston, s.
c., while attempting to run the block
ade.
The senate of Missouri passed a res
olution asking the national congress
to appropriate $25.000,000 to their
state emancipation purposes.
General Banks issued an order at
New Orleans promulgating the emanci-
patton proclamation.
The first decision under President
Lincoln's emancipation proclamation
was delivered by Judge Glover, in st.
Louis, holding it to be constitutional.
The decision was handed down in the
case OF slave that had been arrested
under state law for escaping from
his master. The slave was dis
charged.
General McCleland's National force
landed on the Louisiana side of the
Mississippi river. five miles below the
mouth of the Yazoo and in full view
of the city of vicksburg.
The Emancipation society of Lon
don, meeting in Exeter hall. passed
resolutions commencing President
Lincoln. and expressing sympathy
with the north in the fight in Amer
lea.
January 80. 1858.
The United States gunboat Isaac
| Smith, in command of Acting Lieuten-
ant Connover, while reconnoitering on
the Stone River, in South Carolina,
was fired on by three masked batter
| les of Confederates, driven aground,
and captured.
A party of National troops. under
the command of Colonel Wood of the
| Twenty-second Ohio, left Trenton,
Tenn, and proceeded to Dyersburg,
where they broke up a camp of Con-
ship of Captain Dawson. Thirty-four
of Dawson's men were killed or cap
tured. but he escaped.
Three hundred Confederate con-
script soldiers went into Murfrees-
boro and voluntarily surrendered
themselves to the National troops, as
serting their loyalty to the Union. and
requesting the privilege of taking the
oath of allegiance. One hundred had
similarly come the day before.
The schooner Hanover, of Province
town, Mass, was captured off the
south side of San Domingo by the
Confederate privateer schooner Retri-
button.
| A fight took place at point nine
miles south of Suffolk. Va. known as
the Deserted House." between equal
forces of Federals and Confederates,
resulting, after several hours of hard
fighting in the withdrawal of the Con-
federates The loss was even
| General Grant. having ioined the