The Elbert County tribune., 1913-05-16
May is, 1868.

OF CarrsVllie anu ouhoihs
May 16, 1868.
A detachment OF Pennsylvania and
virginia National cavalry, sent out by
General Milroy in pursuit of company
of Confederates that had captured
company of Union cavalry the previ-
Gus night, came up with the enemy at
Piedmont Station in Fauquier county,
Virginia, and effected recapture OF
the entire body, together with num-
ber of their Confederate captors. Cap
tain Witt, commanding the National
troops. and one sergeant, were killed.
The United States steamer Month
cello captured the Confederate
schooner Odd Fellow off Little River
inlet, North Carolina.
General Palmer, accompanied by an
escort of twenty-five men. and fifty
men of the Middle Tennessee Union
cavalry, made a sabre charge at
BradyviIle Pike, near Cripple Creek.
Tenn, on eight-five men of the Third
Georgia regiment. The Confederates,
carrying no sabres at the time, were
at a heavy disadvantage, and lost in
desperate struggle against the odds.
General Grant continued his specta-
cular movement in the interior behind
Vicksburg with purpose Of severing
the city from the support of the Con-
| federate armies in the vicinity. On
| this day he attacked and defeated the
army under General Pemberton, driv-
| ing it behind the Big Black river. in
the battle of Champion Hills, or
Bakers Creek Miss.
A force of Confederate cavalry at
tack and badly whipped reconnoiter-
ing party of the First New York
mounted rifles, Major Patton, near
Suffolk, Va.
May II, 1868.
The Confederates under Pemberton
were defeated again at the Big Black
river by General Grant, who drove
them definitely into their defenses of
Vicksburg, with great loss. By this
action Grant had won the seventh
engagement In as many days and ac-
! complisbed his purpose of cooping the
enemy up in the town that he had
|
vious year.
jackson, Miss, was evacuated by
the National forces under General
Grant. left there to watch the move
ments of General Johnson and prevent
his coming up with help for Pember-
| ton
The First New York cavalry, that
had suffered severely at the hands Of
Confederates under Mosby the previ-
| GUS day. went out in force to punish
him. Coming up with the enemy at
Berry's Ford, on the Rappahannock,
the Nationals administered sharp
beating to them, and recaptured the
| prisoners taken the day before.
| The Confederate government steam
er Cuba was destroyed by the Nation
al gunboat De Soto in the Gulf Of
Mexico. on Mobile bay.
The schooner Isabel, attempting to
run the blockade at Mobile. was run
close ashore under the walls of Fort
Morgan. and Masters Mate Dyer was
sent with boats to bring her on or
burn her. They were just in time to.
capture sixteen passengers and crew.
Finding 1t impossible to bring the
schooner or he set fire to her and
pulled for his ship. Finding that the
schooner was not burning properly,
Dyer put back, although the forts
were alarmed and alert, and did his
work more effectively.
The Confederate schooner Ripple
was captured by the Federal gunboat
Kanawha. blockading at Pensacola,
Fla.
Confederate partisans visited Burn
Ing Springs, Va. and destroyed the
oilworks there.
Copyright. 1913. by w. G. chapmsn)