Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-05-30

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May %, 1863.
The Eighth Illinois cavalry, Colonel
Clendenin, returned to the headQuar-
tiers of the Army of the Potomac af-
| ter a raid along the banks of the
/ Rappahannock and Potomac rivers
below Fredericksburg. The regiment
was out eleven days, during
which time they captured five hun
dred horses, destroyed twenty thou
sand pounds Of bacon, and a large
quantity of -four, burned one hun
dred sloops. yawls, and other small
craft laden with contraband goods
| intended for the Confederates, to the
value of $1,O00,000 and brought into
camp $50 negro men, women and chill
| dren.
The first negro regiment to be re-
cruited in the north. the Fifty-fourth
Massachusetts, left Boston, amid great
| excitement.
A party of two hundred Confederate
cavalry captured a party of Wolfords
National cavalry in raid into Ken
| lucky, near Somerset.
The Unionists carried Norfolk and
Portsmouth, Va, against overwhelm-
ing Southern majorities, in elections
held at those places.
/ The Confederate steamer Banshee
ran the blockade at Wilmington,
/ N. G.
A force of National troops, the
| Thirteenth Illinois cavalry, was
I severely handled and badly punished
by Confederates in skirmish near
Doniphan, Mo. The Nationals re-
treated after an hours hard fighting,
with a loss of eighty in killed, wound
ed and missing.
ray 90, 1868.
A detachment of the First Vermont
cavalry had a skirmish near Thor
oughfare Gap, Va, with a reconnoiter-
ing party of Stuart's Confederate
cavalry, commanded by Captain Far
leigh, of Stuart's staff. The Confed-
crates. heavily outnumbered, got away
handily, but not until they had taken
one prisoner.
Brigadier General Reed, of the
Union army, returned to Lake Provi--
| dence, La, from an expedition into
Mississippi. He had embarked three
days before with a portion of the First
Kansas volunteers and regiment of
Louisiana colored troops. Ascending
the river ten miles, the troops landed
| near Moon Lake, from which place
they advanced into the interior and
succeeded in capturing sixty head of
cattle and a large quantity of stores
belonging to the Confederates.
May 80, 1868.
Confederates attacked and demol-
/ ished a Union train of sixteen cars,
| loaded with forage, from Alexandria,
1 about a mile and half from Kettle
1 Run, toward Warrenton Junction, Va.
/ The Third brigade, stationed at Kettle
Run, heard the firing and fastened to
the assistance of the attacked train,
1 but arrived too late. The train was
| entirely demolished, two six-pound
! balls having been fired through the
| locomotive.
4 Rumors of another advance into
Maryland by the Confederate army
under Lee threw Harper's Ferry and
neighborhood into frantic excitement
during the day.
| The Thirtieth regiment of New
1 York volunteers returned to Albany
from the seat of war.
| A Confederate camp near Carthage.
Tenn, was surprised by a party of
the Twenty-sixth Ohio, which cap
tured twenty-five prisoners and thirty
five horses, and destroyed all the
camp equipment.
| A large meeting was held in
Newark, N J., by the Democracy OF
that city, ito express their opposition
to the recent arrest and Punishment
of Mr.. Vallandigham." There were
six thousand persons present, and the
sentiments uttered by the various
| speakers were enthusiastically ap-
| plauded.
The town of Tappahannock, on the
right bank of the Rappahannock river,
in Virginia, was captured by four
Union gunboats. A party Of troops
landed and carried off or destroyed a
quantity of Confederate stores. They
also seized quantity of personal
property and a number of negroes.
May 81, 1868.
A battle occurred in Lincoln county,
Missouri, between large force Of
Confederate partisans and the en-
rolled militia of the place county, in
which the Confederates were yictori-
Gus. The militia lost ten men.
The National gunboat Alert, lying at
the navy yard in Norfolk, took fire.
The fire soon reached the magazine,
shell exploded, the shot went
through her bottom, and she sank at
once.
A cavalry reconnaissance was made
from Somerset, KY, to within four
miles of Monticello, during which six
teen Confederates, with their arms
and horses, were captured
A force of Union cavalry, under