Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-05-02
May l, 1858.

~ dhoer General Grant and
the Confederates under Gen. John s.
Bowen. BY defeating their enemy.
the Federal forces gained a foothold
IN the advance to the investment az
icksburg, which had defied all move.
ments against it.
a force of Confederates was de
ieated at Monticello, KY, by heavy
force Of Nationals, under Gen. Samuel
P. Carter.
me schooner Wanderer, while en-.
oeavoring to run the blockade of VIII
mlngton, N. c., was captured by the
national steamer Sacramento.
A skirmish took place at La Grange.
Ark, between detachment OF the
Inird Iowa cavalry and strong force
OF confederate horsemen, with the re-
SUIT OF the defeat Of the Unionists
with heavy loss.
A fight took place at the South QUAY
bridge, near Suffolk, Va. The
Confederates withdrew after a stub
born and bloody contest of two hours.
The two full armies Of the north
and south in Virginia Unanswered for
one Of the monstrous conflicts that
marked the various attempts of the
National forces to drive the Confed-
crates out of Virginia, and open the
way to Richmond. The armies were
commanded by Generals Hooker and
Lee.
May 2, 1863.
The battle of Charlottesville, Va,
between the huge armies of the north
and south, for the possession of Vir-
ginia and Richmond, began, and
lasted throughout the day, with the
advantage resting with General Lee.
The fighting was stupendous on both
sides.
General Marmaduke's Confederate
raid into Missouri, checked when he
was repulsed in his attack on Port
Girardeau, was forced to a conclusion
when General Mcneil, who had been
in pursuit since April 26, came up with
the Confederate force at Chalk Bluff
and drove 1t across the river into
Arkansas.
A Union cavalry force. under Col
onel Grierson, arrived at Baton Rouge,
La, after raid of fifteen days
through Mississippi. They destroyed
bridges, camps, equipages, took pris-
oners, seized horses, and obtained an
amount of important information con-
corning the disposition and resources
of the Confederates A few desultory
skirmishes were fought with irregu-
lars.
A reconnaissance in force was made
to the Nansemond river, Virginia, by
large body of Union troops under
General Getty, supported by the gun
boat Smith Briggs. The Confederates
were found in heavy force, and an
artillery engagement was kept up all
day, but without material results.
The Confederate General Jackson
was mortally wounded by his own
troops, when returning from a recon-
noissance beyond the lines at Chancel-
1orsville, Va.
May 8, 1868.
The National army of the Potomac,
engaged with the Confederates under
Lee in the battle of Charlottesville.
were driven from their position and
compelled to fall back at the end OF
a terrific struggle, lasting all day. It
was the second day of the fight.
Fifteen hundred Union soldiers I'M
der the command of Colonel Streight,
which left Nashville, Tenn, on the
eleventh of April for raid into Ala
bama and Georgia, were captured near
Gadsden, Ala, by body of Confeder-
ate troops under General Forrest.
The Catholic bishop Of Iowa, in a
sermon delivered at Dubuque, threat
ened members of his congregation
who had joined the Knights of the
Golden Circle with accommodation
If they refused to leave the society
within two weeks.
The British schooner Emma Amelia
was captured at st. Andrews bay by
the National steamer Roebuck.
Grand Gulf, Miss, made untenable
by General Grants victory at Port
Gibson, was abandoned by the Confed-
crates. The magazines were blown up
and the guns spiked by the Confed-
crates before they left. Admiral
Porter occupied the place with q Ma
tional force.
The ship Sea Lark was captured
and burned by the Confederate priv
ateer Alabama In the South Atlantic.
Colonel Montgomery, in command
Of a detachment of negro troops, re-
turned to Beaufort from three days
raid up the Combahee river, Georgia.
in which he burned the town of
Asheppo. destroyed two million dol
lars worth of Confederate planters
property, and seized eight hundred
slaves.
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