Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-06-20
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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
June II, 1868.

Federal troops under General Mil
roy were defeated in the battle of
Winchester, Va, by General Ewell
after severe fighting. The Confeder-
ates continued their advance, occupy
ing Martinsburg, Hagerstown and Per-
rysville. Lees last division moved
out of Fredericksburg over the plank
road toward Charlottesville.
Mounted Confederates successfully
raided Maysville, KY.
Furious cannonading was begun by
the Confederates besieged in Vicks-
burg.
Four vessels we're destroyed and
many others captured by the Confed-
ate warships Florida, Georgia and
Alabama.
June IS, 1868.
President Lincoln called for 100000
men for six months to resist the in
vasion of Pennsylvania. Maryland
was asked to supply 10000; Pennsyl-
vania, $4,000; Ohio, 100000, and West
Virginia, 10000. These mer were not
used. Massachusetts, New York and
other states offered volunteers to aid
the terror-stricken state.
Colonel Smith, commanding at
Hagerstown, was surrounded and
forced to surrender by the Confeder-
ates, who also occupied Chambers
burg.
The state archives and bank depos-
it's were removed from Harrisburg to
Philadelphia.
General Milroy reached Harpers
Ferry safely with the garrison from
Winchester.
Kentucky and Michigan cavalry IN
der Colonel De Courcy cut off the
Confederates who had raided Mays
vile, KY, capturing 100 men and re-
covering their plumber.
General Grant received heavy rein
forcements in front of Vicksburg.
Four banks and four schooners left
Boston navy yard to search for the
privateer Tacony.
June 16, 1863.
General Lees steady advance arous-
ed new alarm in Pennsylvania. The
post Office and all stores in Harris
burg were closed and New Jersey
was asked to send men to serve nine
months.
All convalescents in the Washing
ton hospitals were sent to their regi-
ments in the Army Of the Potomac.
The 18th Michigan regiment fought
an engagement with the Confederates
in Fleming county, Kentucky and lost
Is killed and 80 wounded
The Federal monitors Weehawken
and Patapsco captured the Confeder-
ate ram Fingal, known also as the At
lanta, in Warsaw sound.
Generals Totten, Meigs and Martin
dale, Colonel Townsend, Judge Adva-
cate General Holt and Captain Scott
as recorder met as board to settle
the question of precedence raised by
Maj. Gen. Ben Butler as between him
and Generals Mcclellan, Banks and
Dix.
In the Missouri state convention
Mr. Smith of st. Louis offered a reso-
luton declaring that on July 4, 1870,
slavery shall cease forever in Mis-
seuri."
June II, 1868.
Militia of Pennsylvania and neigh
boring states began moving toward
Harrisburg, where the panic was sub
siding.
In a severe cavalry skirmish at
Thoroughfare Gap the Confederates
were repulsed.
Montgomery county, Indiana, became
serious, a meeting of citizens sending
a death warning to the commission
ers. In Holmes county, Ohio, organ
lied opposition to the draft was broken
up by troops after a lively fight.
John Brough, war Democrat, was
nominated for governor by the Re-
publicans of Ohio.
Major General Blount, commanding
the District of the Frontier, forbade
the circulation in his department of
the Chicago Times, the New York
World, the Cincinnati Enquirer, the
Columbus Crisis and the Caucasian.
June 1s, 1868.
Mystifed by the movements of Lee,
the Pennsylvania continued their hur-
ried march toward the border. 1t was
asserted in Harrisburg that the only
Confederates in the state were a
thieying party operating along the
state line.
Confederate General Bragg, having
been heavily reinforced, gave indica-
tons of an intention to invade Ken
lucky to the intense alarm of Hick-
man and Columbus.
Three hundred Confederates raided
Hancock, Nd, and burned a lot of
canal boats
Colonel Kilpatrick's federal cavalry
regiment was surrounded by Colonel
Rosseau's troops near Aide. Va, and