Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-06-27
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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
June Fl, 1868.

| zap, va, between federal cavalry I'M
der Pleasonton and Stuart's Confed-
crate cavalry in which, after fierce
saber charges, the Confederates were
worsted. The losses were heavy on
both sides.
Confederate cavalry under John
| Morgan crossed the Cumberland and
made a raid in the vicinity of
Carthage.
Nine hundred Confederates invaded
Indiana near Leavenworth and
marched to Paoli, burning the bridges
of the Ohio & Mississippi railway.
Col. j. H. Holman of Missouri was
| designated the first colonel of colored
! troops.
| Bishop Bayley advised the Roman
Catholics of Washington to make no
resistance to the draft
June %, 1868.
A party Of Confederates surprised
a federal cavalry force near Fairfax,
Va, and killed three, including Mr..
! Buckingham. the correspondent of the
New York Herald
| Mrs Matte Patterson of Jackson,
Miss, was convicted Of being a spy
| and sentenced to life imprisonment at
Jeffersonville, Ind.
The Missouri state convention
passed unanimously a resolution ex-
polling Prince l.. Hudgins from the
state for disloyalty.
June g., 1868.
Part of General Lees army reoccu-
| pied Chambersburg. the federal troops
under the command of General Knipe
retiring before the enemy.
Pittsburgh was greatly alarmed by
the advance of Lee. Business was en-
tirely suspended and the citizens
| joined in the work of surrounding the
city with trenches.
A thousand citizens of Indiana es
| tablished themselves in a camp near
| Bloomington, with pickets, for the
purpose of resisting the enrolment.
June "a, 1868.
General Lee and his staff, together
with a great part of the Confederate
army, crossed the Potomac and seized
J Shippensburg, Pa, which was evacu-
ated by the Federals.
General Rosecrans, advancing from
Murfreesboro, began the Tullahoma
campaign to drive the Confederate
General Bragg out of middle Tennes-
see and across the Tennessee river.
The Confederates occupied McCon-
sellsburg in force after brisk fight
with the Twelfth Pennsylvania cav
airy.
Admiral John A. Dahlgren succeed
ed Admiral Du Pont in command of
the Federal South Atlantic fleet.
The Confederate General Joe John
ston offered full pardon to all desert
ers in his department who would re-
join their commands Immediately.
The United States gunboat Sumter
| was run down and sunk off Cape
Henry.
June IS, 1868.
The remainder Of General Lees
army crossed the Potomac and the
Confederate advance continued to
| Chambersburg.
Brigadier General Pleasanton was
promoted to major general
General Hunter, u. S. A., was re-
! called from the command Of the De-
| partment Of the South.
President Lincoln gave brief audi
ence to committee from the Ohio
| Democratic convention, headed by q.
| w. Pendleton, and received the pro-
test against the governments pro-
| ceedings against Vallandingham. The
Indian department received word that
| 10000 warlike Indians of various
! tribes were gathered at Fort Larned,
Kan, and the commissioner of Indian
! affairs urged that they be enlisted to
keep them from causing trouble.
The ST Louis Democrat said Cover
nor Yates of Illinois had offered the
secretary of war 10000 men to repel
invasion.
Underwriters and merchants met in
Boston and offered $4,000 for the cap
ture of the privateer Tacony.
June IS, 1868.
| General HOOKER IOOk Tie COOA "a
army across the Potomac and he and
Lee prepared to fight great Dattle
in either Maryland or Pennsylvania.
General Early occupied Gettysburg
with ten regiments of Confederate in
fantry and cavalry and artillery. Gov
ernor Curtin of Pennsylvania called
for 10000 volunteers.
Maj. Gen. w. S. Hancock was put
ia command of the Second corps, u.
S. A.. in place of Gen. D. N. Crouch.
The crew of the pirate Tacony, hav-
ing burned that vessel to avoid cap
ture, entered the harbor of Portland,
Me-, and cut out the United states rev
enue cutter Caleb Gushing. They were
pursued and captured after blowing up
the Cushing.
The Confederate secretary Of war
| ordered all North Carolina regiments
to other states, owing to the growing