The Elbert County tribune., 1913-02-28
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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
February "a. 1853.

oihnoia, unuer command OF Lieut.
George Brown. was captured in the
Mississippi river near Grand Gulf. at
ter an engagement lasting an hour
and half. by the Confederate iron
clad steamers Queen of the West and
William II. Webb, and two armed
steameru.
The steamer Hetty Gilmore was
captured and destroyed by Confed-
crates under w. c. p. Breckinridge,
near Woodbury., Tenn.
The Savannah News said: There
seems to be now a great rage for In
vesting In Confederate bonds. Every
body is buying bonds-that is. every
body who has treasury notes where
with to buy. How great the contrast!
Here our people are seeking Confed-
crate paper. In Lincolndom every
body is avoiding government paper,
and paying enormous prices for every
article which will enable them to
get rid of Yankee promises to payl
This is one of the best signs OF the
times'
At Richmond, Va, Judge Meredith
Of the circuit court decided In habeas
corpus proceedings that every citi-
zen in Maryland and every foreigner
who had enlisted in the Confederate
army. no matter for how short a
period. had acquired a domicile, and
therefore was liable to conscription
between the ages of eighteen and
forty-fve
Congress formed the territory of
Arizona by dividing New Mexico.
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gunboat past the Vicksburg batteries.
which 80 alarmed the Confederates
that they destroyed the Queen of the
West and the Indianola. which they
had lately taken from the Federals.
February 25, 1868.
The act for the enrolling and call
ing out of the National forces, and
for other purposes. passed the house
of representatives by a vote OF lis to
50. II had already passed the senate.
Stuarts Confederate cavalry was de-
feated In brush with the Union
cavalry of General Averill near Hart
wood church. Virginia. The Confed-
crates. ignorant of the preponderating
force of the Union cavalry, made the
attack, but we're driven off, and pur-
sued as far at Kelly's Ford.
An expedition. consisting of force
of Union troops, under the command
of General Rose, left Moon lake on
board several steamers and proceeded
up Yazoo Pass.
The Confederates under Cluke, who
had been raiding In Kentucky, were
overtaken and dispersed by a heavy
Union force near Licktown.
The British steamer Peterhoff was
captured of st. Thomas, West Indies,
by the United States gunboat Van
derbilt, and sent to Key West. Fla,
for adjudication.
The bakers In Charleston. 8. c., ad-
vanced the price OF bread to twenty
five cents for a half pound loaf.
Flour sold at sixty-fve dollars bar
REL
The National Bank bill became a
law through the approval by President
Lincoln.
| Filbusters in the house OF repre-
sentatives defeated the bill providing
for compensated emancipation in Mis-
souri,.
February 2e, 1868.
Two hundred men of the Thirteenth
Pennsylvania and First New York
cavalry were captured near Wood
stock, Va. They were part OF de-
tachment that had gone In pursuit Of a
body OF Confederate cavalry that
came inside the National pickets on
the Strasburg road the day before,
and captured twelve pickets, after q
skirmish. The Union cavalry, follow
ing. came up with the Confederate
raiding party. and took many of them.
but. proceeding too far, they were in
turn attacked and overwhelmed.
The National council of the Chero-
kee nation rescinded its ordinance of
secession and declared loyalty to the
United States.
The yacht Anna was captured in the
| Suwanee river. Georgia. by the Ma
tional steamer Fort Henry.
freight train on the Louisville G.
Nashville railroad. laden with merch-
andise belonging to individuals, a
quantity of government stores, and
two hundred and fifty mules,
was captured near Woodburn. Tenn,
by Confederate partisans. After drlv-
Ing off the mules and rifiing the cars
of their contents, they set fire to
them and totally destroyed them.
That done. they got up steam on the
locomotive and started it at full speed
up the track. hoping it would encoun-
ter the passenger train from Nash
vile. The locomotive passed a num-
Der OF stations at high speed, but final
ly came to a stop, its steam having
become exhausted. without doing any
harm.
February 27 1863