Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-02-07
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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
February 8, 1853.

FEBRUARY s, 1868.
A fight took place at Mingo swamp,
Missouri, between a detachment of
Union troops under the leadership of
of Major Reedor, and body of Con-
federate irregulars under the leader
ship of one MCGEE, resulting in rout
of the partisans. MCGEE and eight of
his men were killed.
A successful reconnaissance was
made to Liberty, Auburn, and Leban-
on, Tenn, by body of National troops
under Gen. J. j. Reynolds. They OBJ
tanned important information concern
ing the position and operations of the
Confederate forces; ascertained that
the inhabitants OF many portions Of
Tennessee hitherto unvisited by Ma
tional troops were loyal to the Union;
obtained material results in capturing
supplies, and destroying Confederate
means of support; broke up Confed-
crate camp, dispensing the Confeder-
ates in all directions, and had several
skirmishes with irregulars.
Fort Donelson. Tenn, garrisoned by
the Eighty-third Illinois, was at
tackled by force of Confederates un-
der Generals Forrest and Wheeler
After a desperate contest of five hours
duration, the Confederates withdrew,
finding the place now impregnable.
The levee at Yazoo Pass was cut,
permitting a Federal expedition to
pass through in operations against
Vicksburg.
February 4, 1868.
Col. George E. Waring, Jr., COM
handing the cavalry division in the
brigade of Gen. J. w. Davidson, made
a descent on Batesville, Ark, driving
the Confederates under Marmaduke
out of the town, killing and wounding
many, and capturing some prisoners,
among them Colonel Adams. Many Of
the Confederates swan the river in
their flight.
Thanksgiving was celebrated in
Texas for the successes that had at
tended the Confederate arms.
The ram Fulton, on the way to
Vicksburg, was fired into by Confed-
crate battery at Cypress Bend, and dis
abled. One negro on board was killed,
and another jumped into the river and
was drowned. Before the Confeder-
ates could board the disabled vessel;
the steamers Rather and Wilson came
to it's relief
National troops had brief skirmish
with Confederates five miles from
Lake Providence, in which they lost
several men while effecting the cap
ture of a number of the enemy.
The examination of Rev. r. J.
Graves took place at Hillsboro, N c.,
before Judge M. e. Manly. The min
lister was bound over to the Confed-
crate courts in Richmond to stand
charge for treason against the Confed-
eracy
February 5, 1868.
A party of the Fortieth Missouri
militia encountered a small band of
Confederate irregulars on Bear Greek,
Johnson county, Mo-, and routed them
in dashing charge.
The queen of England, in her speech
read before the opening Of the British
parliament, said: Her majesty's re-
lations with foreign powers continue
to be friendly and satisfactory Her
majesty has abstained from taking
any step with view to induce ces-
sation of the conflict between the con-
tending parties in the North Ameri-
can states, because it has not yet
seemed to, her majesty that any such
overtures could be attended with any
probability of success. Her majesty
has viewed with the deepest concern
the desolating warfare which sti1
RACES in those regions; and she has
witnessed with heartfelt grief the
distress and severe suffering which
that war has inflicted on large class
of her majesty's subjects, but which
have been borne by them with noble
1t is some consolation to be led to
fortitude and exemplary resignation.
hope that this suffering and this dis
tress are diminishing rather than
increasing, and that some revival of
employment is beginning to take place
in the manufacturing districts
A small detachment of National
cavalry was attacked at Wiggington's
mill, near Stafford Store, Va. The
Confederates were dispersed, and a
number of neighboring farmers ar
rested.
Capt. Robert Maupin, of the Con-
federate army, was captured in the
vicinity of Columbia, Mo-, by party
Of National troops.
February 6, 1868.
A detachment from Companies H
and F of the Fifth New York cavalry
made a raid into Middleburg, Va,
capturing eight of the First Virginia
Confederate cavalry, as they were on
their way to ball at Aide, given in
their honor by the citizens.
The Confederate Colonel Cushman,
for long time active in burning cot