Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1913 — The CIVIL WAR [ARTICLE]

The CIVIL WAR

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

June 14, 1863. f / Federal troops under General Miltoy were defeated in the battle of Winchester, Va., by General Ewell after severe fighting. The Confederates continued their advance, occupying Martlnsburg, Hagerstown and Perrysville. Lee’s last division moved out of Fredericksburg over the plank road toward Chancellorsville. Mounted Confederates successfully raided Maysville, Ky. Furious cannonading was begun by the Confederates besieged in Vicksburg. Four vessels were destroyed and many others captured by the Confedate warships Florida, Georgia and Alabama. June 15,1863. President Lincoln called for 100,000 men for six months to resißt the invasion of Pennsylvania. Maryland was asked to supply 10,000; Pennsylvania, 50,000; Ohio, 30,000, and West Virginia, 10,000. These mer were not used. Massachusetts, New York and other states offered volunteers to aid the terror-stricken state. Colonel Smith, commanding at Hagerstown, was surrounded and forced to surrender by the Confederates, who also occupied Chamberaburg. The state archives and bank deposits were removed from Harrisburg to Philadelphia. General Mtlroy reached Harper’s Ferry safely With the garrison from Winchester. Kentucky and Michigan cavalry under Colonel De Courcy cut off the Confederates who had raided Maysville. Ky., capturing 100 men and recovering their plunder. General Grant received heavy reinforcements in front of Vicksburg. Four barks and four schooners left Boston navy yard to search for the privateer Tacony. it 1 — June 16, 1863. General Lee’s steady advance aroused new alarm in Pennsylvania. The post ofllce and all stores in Harrisburg were closed and New Jersey was asked to send men to serve nine months. All convalescents in the Washington hospitals were sent to their regiments in the Army of the Potomac. The 15th Michigan regiment fought an engagement with the Confederates in Fleming county, Kentucky, and lost 15 killed and 30 wounded. The Federal monitors Weehawken and Patapsco* captured the Confederate ram Fingal, known also as the Atlanta, in Warsaw sound. Generals Totten, Meigs and Martindale, Colonel Townsend, Judge Advocate General Holt and Captain Scott as recorder met as a board to settle the question of precedence raised by Maj. Gen. Ben Butler as between him and Generals McClellan, Banks and Dix.

In the Missouri state convention Mr. Smith of St. Louis offered a resolution declaring that on July 4, 1870, “slavery shall cease forever in Missouri.'’ June 17, 1863. Militia of Pennsylvania and neighboring states began moving toward Harrisburg, where the panic vas subsiding. In a severe cavalry skirmish at Thoroughfare Gap the Confederates were repulsed. Resistance to the enrollment in } Montgomery county, Indiana, became serious, a meeting of citizens sending a death warning to the commissioners. In Holmes county, Ohio, organized opposition to the draft was broken up by troops after a lively fight. John Brough, war Democrat, was nominated for governor by the Republicans of Ohio. Major General Blount, commanding the District of the Frontier, forbade the circulation in his department of the Chicago Times, the New York World, the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Columbns Crisis and the Caucasian. June 18, 1863. Mystified by the movements of Lee, •the Pennsylvania continued their hurried march toward the border. It was asserted in Harrisburg that the only Confederates in the state were a thieving party operating along the ■state line. Confederate General Bragg, having been heavily reinforced, gave indications of an intention to invade Kentucky, to the Intense alarm of Hickman and Columbus. Three hundred Confederates raided Hancock, Md., and burned a lot of canal boats. Colonel Kilpatrick’s federal cavalry regiment was surrounded by Colonel Rosseau’s troops near Aldie, Va., and cut their way out with heavy loss. A detachment of Missouri and Ohio cavalry under Major Henry was cut to * pieces near Fernando, Mias., by General Chambers’ troops. Enrolling Officer Fletcher Freeman was shot dead in Sullivan county, Indiana. June 19, 1963. Fourteen New York regiments were cent to the aid of Pennsylvania. General McClernand was removed from the command of the Thirteenth army corps by General Grant, and General Ord assigned to the place.

Part of the Fourth Kentucky Confederate cavalry made a raid into Harrison county, Indiana, and w were defeated by the Home Guards in an engagement at Orleans. Troops were sent to Holmes county to break up the opposition to the draft Prisoners captured by Grant 1.600 in number, arrived at Baltimore on their way to Fortress Monroe for exchange. The proprietors of the Dayton (Ohio) Journal, whose printing office was sacked by a “copperhead” mob, were reimbursed by a military assessment on the parties who instigated'and directed the riot. A delegation of Louisiana planters arrived in Washington and offered to bring their state back into the Union if slavery within it were not abolished. June 20, 1863, Federal cavalry under Colonel De Foreßt were defeated by Confederates near New Baltimore, Va. General Lee’s troops occupied Frederick, Md. Major Sterßpg and Captain Fisher of General Hooker’s staff were reported captured by guerillas near Fairfax, Va. General Schenck forbade the publication, within his department, of extracts from the New York World, the New York Express, the Chtaago Times and several other papers. The Forty-fifth Ohio regiment. In camp at Somerset, Ky., adopted resolutions denouncing the nomination of Vallandingham by the Ohio Democrats. A. J. Boreman was inaugurated as the first governor of theNnew state oi West Virginia (Copyright, 1913.)