Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1912 — Page 3

The CIVIL WAR FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

April 1, 1862. X: The Union force under General Banks advanced from Strasburg, Virginia to Woodstock. Colonel Ashby resisted them at Woodstock with a force of infantry, cavalry and artillery, but was not in sufficient strength to hold them in check. Ashby, retreating, burned one railroad and two turnpike bridges. All the railroad bridges between Strasburg and Woodstock had previously bebn destroyed. A detachment of Union troops followed the Confederates as far as Edinburgh, five miles beyond Woodstock. Three brigades composed of foreign soldiers were organised in New Orleans for the defense of the city against the northern armies. The entire enlistment was about 12,000 men. Of the first brigade 2,000 were Creoles and 1,000 French, Spaniards, Italians and Germans. The second brigade comprised 2,500 French, 800 Spaniards, 500 Italians, 400 Germans and Scandinavians and 500 Swiss, Belgians, English, Slavonians, etc. The third brigade, 4,500 strong, was composed entirely of unnaturalised Frenchmen. ' 1' Warrenton, Virginia, was occupied by theUn ion, forces. A party of National troops, belonging to the forces under General Steele, commanded by Colonel Carline, had an engagement with the Confederates at Putnam's Ferry, Arkansas, In which four Southerners were taken prisoner and one of their officers killed. A large quantity of military stores and equipment was taken. April 2, 1862. General McClellan arrived at Fort Monroe, and began a campaign against Richmond. The United States Senate passed

the House resolution, suggested by President Lincoln, that the government ought to give pecuniary aid to any states that might desire to adopt the gradual abolition of slavery, with compensation to the owners. A dashing attack by the Confederates drove In the cavalry pickets of Gen. Lew Wallace’s division at Crump’s Landing, on the Tennesseee river. Company I, Fifth Ohio cavalry, lost three prisoners. Major Donaldson, U. 8. A., chief of the quartermaster’s division in New Mexiqo, arrived at Washington and reported that the Confederates, as a result of their recent raid, held every position of Importance in New Mexico excepting Fort Craig and Fort Union. Fort Union, the-most important post in the west at that time, holding several million dollars* frorth of army stores, was declared to be safe from capture. Its absolute safety was finally secured by the arrival of 900 men from Colorado, under Colonel Gilpin, who had marched the final 160 miles Tn the four days on a rumor that the fort was about to fall. Colonel Geary’s command at White Plains, Virginia. wotklnt.Qß the Manassas Gap railroad, narrowly escaped being captured by a force of Confederates that crossed the Rappahannock. The schooner Kate, of Nassau, was destroyed when attempting to run the blockade at Wilmington, N. C.

April 3, 1862. The Federal army under McClellan left Fortress Monroe In an advance oh Yorktown, held by General Magruder with 10,000 Confederates. Albert Sidney Johnson, Major-Gen-eral, C. S. A., Issuing a fiery address to his army at Corinth, Mississippi, In which he called upon them to “march to a decisive victory over the agrarian mercenaries sent to subjugate you and despoil you of your liberties, property and honor,” put his army in motion to meet the force advancing under General Grant. Accompanying the address were general orders dividing the Army of the Mississippi Into three corps, under Generals Polk, Bragg and Hardee, respectively. General Beauregard was proclaimed second in command, and General Crittenden was assigned te a command of reserves. Apalachicola, Florida, was occupied by a party of Union seamen from the gunboats Meredlta and Sagamore, under command of Commander Stellwagen. The town was nearly deserted of male population, and the Confederate sand batteries for its defense were dismantled and the guns re moved. A number of schooners and sloops, some, of them blockade runners, were captured and either taken away or destroyed. The West Virginia constitution was approved by the people of the new state in a general election. The United States Senate, by a vote of 29 to 14, passed a bill abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia*. April 4, 1862. - The national troops at Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., were attacked by two regiments of Confederate infantry, supported by two pieces of artillery and a force of cavalry; The assault, failing to take the Union soldiers unawares, was repulsedin » naval engagement off Pass Christian, Miss., the Confederate steamers Oregon, Pamlico and Carondelet b Lewis. fc/g - gs/SaS

' -ft-' sippi. UaataM nt atnurn nraff at Ak Masters oi steam cruii at new Orleans were prohibited from employing -‘h” 17 . ”y cl ? as captains, mates, cierKB 9t engmeeiw * ‘ • ■•XX" General Banks was put in command of the Union forces in western Virginia, designated as the Army of the Parson Brownlow was given a public reception in Cincinnati, O. A canal 12 miles long was completed to carry the Union gunboats past Island No. 10. April 5, 1862. The United States gunboat Carondelet arrived at one o'clock in the morning at New Madrid, Mo., having passed the Confederate batteries and fortifications on Island No. 10 and the Tennessee shore. She left the Union fleet the preceding evening under cover of a thunderstorm and was not discovered until the flame from her smoke stack revealed her presence. Batteries on both shores opened a heavy fire, but in the excitement and darkness the practice was poor and the' gunboat passed through safely. After a twoday’s advance, the por-

tion of the Army of the Potomac that had been concentrated at Old Point, Va., took position in front of the Confederate works before Yorktown. There was a heavy fire from the guns of the two forces throughout the day. Leaving their former position the day before, the Federate advanced as far as _ Big Bethel without being opposed. General Morrill was in command of the right and General Porter commanded the left Two companies of the Third Pennsylvania cavalry and a portion of Berdan's sharpshooters acted as skirmishers. At Big Bethel the troops were delayed for two hours reconstructing a bridge that had been destroyed, under fire' of the outer pickets of the Confederates. Retreating before the advance of the skirmishers to Howard's creek, the Confederates made a stand in some abandoned earthworks. The Third Rhode Island battery dislodged them. The main body of the advance rested at Howard’s creek until the following day, while General Morrill pushed on three miles to Bucklesvllle, within six nrtles of Yorktown. At ten on Ae morning of the sth the atmy was in front of Yorktown. An artillery duel was continued until dark, without important effect on either side. The Nationals lost six killed and 16 wounded. April 6, 1862.

The Confederate army under Gen. Albert Sidney-Johnson attacked the Union force under General Grant at Pittsburg Landing early in the morning, taking them by surprise. The Confederate assault, continuing In force, was successful throughout th‘e morning, driving General Prentiss and General Sherman from their positions and rolling back the Union line for a distance of more than a mile toward the bluffs along the river: As noon both armies were heavily engaged, but the Confederates still continued -to hold the advantage. General Prentiss, with a large part of his division, was surrounded and captured. At five o’clock the position of the Union army was critical. Gen. Lew Wallace, who had been ordered up from Crump’s Landing,, had taken the wrong road and failed to appear. General Buell, with the-army of' Tennessee, was hurrying forward, but had not arrived. The Union force made a last desperate resistance against a final assault by the Confederates, and held, helped greatly by the fire of the gunbqat Tyler, and the tardy arrival of Wallace. The troops under Buell. began to appear on the opposite side of the river. The Confederates drew off and bivouaped. The Union gunboat Cardondelet, which ran the batteries at Island No. 10 on the night of the fourth, made a reconnoisence from New Madrid to Tiptonville, Mo., in search of masked batteries. One was found and destroyed by a force, of soldiers brought along by the gunboat. ■' April 7, 1862. < The Confederates renewed their attack on Grant’s army at Pittsburg landing In the morning, hoping to complete their half-firiiphed victory of the day before. But the arrival during the night of heavy reinforcements of fresh troops under Buell had. so strengthened the Union forces that the southerners' were repulsed and slowly driven doWn the field they had conquered the day before. Their enthusiasm was deflated by the death of their general, Albert Sidney Johnson, dearly loved by his men and confidingly After a desperate struggle they were forced from the field and sent in retreat on Corinth, twenty miles- away. General Sherman followed In pursuit. The loss on both sides In the two days’ fighting was the heaviest In the war. The bridge over Stony Creek, Virginia, was completed. Ashby’s battery, opening on the National army as it was crossing, was- Silenced. The Union forces at New Madrid succeeded in effecting a lodgment on the Kentucky shore opposite New Madrid, Mo. The gunboats Carondelet and Pittsburg, .which had run the batteries of Island Number Ten the night before, opened on the Confederate batteries on the eastern shoreland anfr dismantled by a landing party. Working from that vantage, three other batteries were subsequently seised. At eleven o’clock General Paine, with four regiments, crossed in the face of the remaining batteries, followed by the divisions >f Generals Hamilton and Stanley and Granger’s cavalry. hv the Confederates

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SHAKESPEARE, NAPOLEON—AND TY COBB

By HOMER CROY.

Residents of Royston, Ga., say this world has produced three great men: Shakespeare, Napoleon—and Ty Cobb. The bearded bard of Avon may have written a few plays that now give employment to Julia' Marlowe and E. H. Sothern, but what did he know about the fall-away slide? The bow-legged little man who always wore his hat crossways may have, won a war or. two, but what sort of batting average did.-he have/ But speaking of real men whose names will go resounding, reverberating and re-echoing down the. corridors of time, there is Mr. Tyrus R. Cobb who was bom right in this town, sir! Picture cards showing his birthplace, the first goat he ever drove to a Proctor & Gamble soap-box wagon, and of his shaking hands with the president, three for five. The rubberneck wagon starts for Ty Cobb's old home in one minute —all aboard—seats a dollar! Yes, sir, right in that corner room 25 years .ago last month. Yes, I used to go to school with him, andwe usedto tie frogs in the girls* desks and he calls me Pud to this day! The first word he ever gurgled was “BaH-ball,” and before he could craw! the length of the room he would sit by the hour and suck the leather buckle of a fielder’s glove. He was batting something over .200 before he knew who Santa Claus really was, and' by the day he had cut his milk teeth he had shaken his list attwo umpires and had spit at the coacher for the opposing team. - He was brought up on his grandfather’s plantation, and when he would work he was one of the fastest cotton pickers in all the country, but ft usually took his grandfather and two able bodied overseers to . make him work. - ■ Hl« baseball experience began with his being shortstop for the Royston Midgets at the age of eight, and with the exception of one day during the summer of 1909 when he had an attack of biliousness, he has been in the prise automobile business ever since. His vocation is baseball, but his avocation is winning prise automobiles. He was married in 1909, and has one son who can already converse in four baseball dialects and talk back

AROUND THE BASES

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Artist Cesare Views Ty Cobb.

to the umpire in words of three syllables. Ty has flaxen hair and was named Tyrus by a maiden aunt who had had dyspepsia all her life, His middle name is Raymond, but when he is sitting in the half light with his back to the window you could never tell it He is the master of the slide, being able Jo coast ipbetween the ankles of a knock-kneed man and never get touched. He could take a run from the dining room of a European plan hotel in Rogers, Ark., and slide through the trellis work on the front porch without getting touched or barking his shoulders. He never gets hurt If he went into the aviation business or became an auto racer he would still live to be as old as Shem, who carpentered on the ark for Noah at a hundred and twenty years, Ty needing only a package of court pla£ ter or so every decade. In coming down' in an aeroplane be would always hop out at the fourth floor, come in on the hook slide and his hip, and then get up as sound as a simoleon to see if the umpire had called him safe. In winter time the Empire State Express of baseball lives in Augusta, sells automobiles and talks about the new baseball phenom, he has discovered—Tyrus, Jr. (Copyright. ISII. by W. G. Chapman.)

Roy Hartzell of the Yanks Ifi and will be for some time in a class by himself as a run producer on account of a little stunt which he pulled off in a game against the Browns July 12 when, single handed, he biffed an octet of runners across the pan. A feat which may be put in the next best class was a pinch hit by Lajoie, a double off Baker <rf Chicago, on. July 1, which sent three tallies over and won the game, 5 to 2.

Bobby Wallace says that the pres-ent-day ball players can not stand anywhere near as much work as the oldtimers who played when he broke into the game. Every player nowadays that has a'scratch has to lay off for days, but In the old times men were known to play even with broken fingers and spiked feet

Toledo may play Art Griggs at first base. In case Derrick does not make good. Chattanooga has given the veteran George Nill Ms unconditional release Manager Dooin of the Phillies is going to give Walsh a thoroughtrial as a catcher. ' Manager Griffith may carry twentyTL* ? ffiS" C? 1 * WaS Si youngsters instead of letting them start wrong with the minors. ?

Hartzell as Run Producer.

Hard on Old-Timers.

WINK COSTS HIM JOB

How “Lefty” George Loot Out With Manager Wallaoe. Leader of St. Louie Browne Wearied of Those Eyes That “Just Couldn’t Behave,” and Traded Pitcher to Cleveland. Lefty George, who cross fires with the left fin, winked himself out of a Job with Manager Wallace of the Browns. That’s the whole, unadulterated truth, hot off the bat from Manager Wallace, and sworn to and attested by Doc Lawler, who ministers Unto the sick and wounded in the Browns’ camp. > •. , George, everybody will remember, was recently traded to the Naps for George Stovall, ex-manager, who assays about 90 per cent pure as a first sacker. When this trade was pulled by Colonel Hedges, a howl went up from Kennebunk, Me., to Frisco, CaL “Cleveland gold-bricked again,” shouted the calamity howlers. Well, there are two persons who think that Cleveland got an even break in this deal. Those two are Manager Harry Davis and Owner Charles Somers of the Naps, the men who engineered the trade, aided and abetted by Col. Robert L. Hedges, who is foolish like a little red fox. Everybody else in this land figured that Cleveland crawled out the short of the horn on that deal “How did you slip that one over on Davis?” Wallace was asked. “I didn’t slip anything over on Davis,” snapped Wallace. “Why, do you know I still would have George if he hadn’t been winking at me all season.” Somebody gave the manager the equine guffaw. Then Doc Lawler came to Wallace’s rescue. “What Wallaoe says is the gospel truth,” quoth Lawler. “Lefty was the World’s champion winker. He could give the cutest, most knowing little

Manager Wallace.

wink with either lamp, and before the season was over we voted him first honors in the world’s open winking tournament.-' - , “I’ll never forget a day in Boston,” chirped Wallace, unwilling to Jet Law* ler teH his story. “I sent George in to pitch and told him for the love of his wife and child and his future in

- Otto Williams says the delay tat returning his contract to Indianapolis was due to a mistake and that he was never a hold-out. Cleveland fans have picked Lajoie as Harry Davis’ choice for-.captain, - DOt yet CoDflrmed Manager Larry Schlafly of the J j|fe sey City club made a visit to Columbus to coax Billy Purteil to sign a contract and while there made Comake a

the profession to uncork a good game. He said he’d try. He went along swimmingly until the fifth inning. Then he inaugurated Ms famous “walk” balk He filled the bases cm passes. I chased Out cm the diamond and Lefty stopped me with that wink long, deliberate, totaleclipse winks. He had me hypnotised for a mlmrte. Finally he Walked the fourth man, forcing home a run. “I started out on the diamond again, and Lefty came through with another coy little wink—this time a quick, just-a-minuto-BoM’lHetrMm-this- time wink. • •;; *T snatched the ban from him and told him to get in to the bench and wink at Lawler. He did, and Lawler hasn’t won a game of kelley pool since; neither has Lefty pitched for the Browns. “As a winker. Lefty has ft on Christy Mathewson like Jack Johnson lays It over Kid Peppers; as a pitcher —well, he’s with Cleveland now.” -L,—- , , ..

WILLIE KEELER COMES BACK

One of the-Greatest Baseball Players of His Time Has Signed for Third Time With Brooklyn. This is the third time Willie Keeler has tied up with Brooklyn. In his day Keeler was one of the greatest ball

Willie Keeler.

players that ever stepped on the diamond. He led the league tn batting, rarely struck out and in a game in Baltimore stretched a single to left field into a home run. Keeler played on the pennant winning Baltimore Orioles and then went to Brooklyn, where he helped win a pennant In 1902 he jumped to/ the New York Yankees and played with them for several years.

New England League Schedule.

The playing schedule for the New England league as announced calls for the opening of the season on April 19 Wfth two games for all dubs except Haverhill and Worcester, the Brackton team 'meeting Lynn, Fall River meeting New Bedford, Lawrence meeting Lowell in morning and afternoon games alternating and Haverhill playing one game at Wop cester. The season closes September 7.

Mortell Goes to Cincinnati.

Cincinnati has bought Infielder Mortell from Chattanooga. In exchange the Reds wifi give a couple ofpitchers and cash; Martell is a youngster who contracted . last season and did not report. played independent ball at his home in Kankakee.

Manager Davis as Coach.

teels that be is a competent coach for first basemen Since he developed Jack Mclnnis W will give special attenturn to big Ed Hornhorst this spring.

Tennis Champions May Meet.

Ex-Tennia Champion Marlton ana me a cuaujpiou, special match at the ’Beverly courts, Los Angeles, Cal.. May 30.

Oscar Stanage and Chief Meyers, the husky backstops of the Tigers and lead major uVand Meyers was behind the bat .in 128. --- _ a six-cor!ae*j| race this year,” said pills., Boston, Oliic&go