Show X!iv i federates property CIVIL WAR FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK 23 1862 liDwcamber president Jefferson Davis Issued a proclamation declaring General Butler recently relieved of command of the Department of the Gulf to be a felon and and deserving of capital punishment ordering that he should no longer bo considered or treated merely as a public enemy of the Confederate States but an outlaw and common enemy to mankind 'The Confederate a cargo of cotton ran the Ala schooner "with blockade at Pelican bales of Mobile and Lieut E T McJ P Graham Port on both of the Fifteenth Arkansas Confederate cavalry “being convinced of the wickedness and folly" of secession respectfully requested “alike the privilege of returning peacefully to their allegiance and their homes” fn the north A truBty negro saved a squadron of the Eighth Pennsylvania cavalry from ibelng captured by a party of Confederates who had planned to cross the fourteen miles below !Rappahannock Port Conway Va and seize them who got wind of the fThe negro Informed ttcheme from other blacks the National soldiers and the attempt v as abandoned when the Confederates ifound their plan was discovered from moved forces The National of Va and took possession Romney Winchester December 24 1862 In promulgating President Lincoln’s of emancippreliminary proclamation ation of the slaves General Banks of the the Department commanding Gulf Issued an addresB to the people In order to correct mistof Louisiana understanding and misapprehension the purpose of the emanconcerning cipation In a public letter written December I860 given out on this date Alexauder H Stephens vice president States of America gif the Confederate bald: “While I hope for the best I am prepared for the worst The election of Mr Lincoln I am well perIs owing much more to the suaded divisions of the Democratic party and the disastrous personal strifes among its leaders at Baltimore and Charlestown than to any fixed determination on the part of a majority of the people of the North to wage an exterminating warfare against Southern institutions I can but believe that there is still enough patriotism in the land north as well as south to save the present Union under the existing con stltutlon with all its guarantees and if the great heart pf the obligations nation can be touched and aroused All that Is wanting is a little time and patriotic forbearance" The advance guard of the Confede- rate General Morgan's advancing seized ft Urge amount of Va was defended from atDumfries tack of a Confederate force under GenLee by the erals Stuart and In fierce struggle that lasta garrison The Confedered for several hours ates outweighed in the artillery arm retired without taking the town General Sherman's army disembarked near the mouth of the Yazoo river and moved forward on The attack on the Confederate forces was begun by the troops in conwith the fleet of gunboats junction The gunboats after several hours’ firing were compelled to retire considerbut the troops after a ably disabled desperate struggle of eight hours duration closing at nightfall drove the' from some of their outer Confederates toward defenses their main works Both forces rested on their arms for the nighty December V ) fe' J A party of Mexicans under the leadnamed Munoz ership of a invaded the state of Texas and stole forty horses and fifty head of cattle Defrom a ranch in Zapata county mand was made through the United States military authorities for the arrest and punishment of the robbers by the Mexican officials also the restitution of the property Governot Lopez of Tamaullpas had the crlm Inals arrested but piey subsequently The property ' was not reescaped covered The United States provisional court for the state of Louisiana was opened at New Orleans with the reading ot the order from President Lincoln establishing the tribunal and appointing Judge Charles A Peabody to preside over it 25 1862 an Arab horse owned by Hamdanle Pierre Ponafldlne during his travels In General advance Morgan's guard tbe Moslem East was a universal favcame upon a force of Union cavalry orite on account of his docility and under Colonel Gray at Green's Chapel intellgence Mr Ponafldlne says in Ky and fell back “Life in the Moslem East" that it was a pear Munfordsvllle on the main column with a loss of pretty to see him tease his groom wounded and when sight man was nine killed twenty-twthe the cleaning five prisoners stables With his teeth he would slyThe Confederate schooner Break ly undo the man’s belt extract his O’ Day with a cargo of cotton ran the from Arab handkerchief the capacious blockade at Mobile Ala or take off his groom's hat pocket Colonel Shank in command of the and hold it in his teeth high up almost ‘Twelfth Kentucky Federal cavalry atout of reach tacked General Morgan's rear guard “Another time he Bhowed an almost at Bear Wallow Ky and punished human understanding Mrs them severely before he could be driven was riding him We were reHe captured twelve officers and off turning from a ride one evening and ynen as we entered the town we had to In a skirmish Morgan's advance pass through an archway and then guard drove off the Second Michigan turn sharply into a narrow lane Just at Bacon creek near Munfordsvllle as we entered the arch with my wife Ky capturing twenty men and two leading the party a band of children officers came racing down the lane and one after the ether as they turned the corDecember 26 1862 ner they ran into Hamdanie who was t were Indians hanged at cantering and as usual prancing “I turned cold with horror as I foreMankato Minn for participation In saw the awful accident that seemed Abe late massacres in that state The wise creature ununavoidable President Jefferson Davis delivered an extended address on the subject derstood the danger as well as I did of secession before the legislature of and in a second stopped short and threw himself back sitting literally assembled at Jackson Mississippi of the Fourteenth like a dog on his haunches with fore Major Stevens legs well spread receiving one after Kentucky cavalry with one hundred another the children who ran full Into and fifty men who had been ordered his arms as it were Hard as the to find a large band of Confederate was for horse and rider he Irregulars in the eastern part of position kept it up uryil the last child had run Powell county Kentucky after traveling all night over obscure and dang- round the corner Into him The litcame upon the Con-- ' tle ones picked themselves up quite erous federates in camp in the morning and unconscious of the fate from which dashed among them Burprising and the horse's kindness had saved them" —Youth's Companion capturing their leader a noted partisan and eleven of the band The rest dispersed and hid In the moun-- i Ancient English College tains A place in England has been found where there are only four cottages In 1862’ iDecember'27 an area of thirty thousand acres One General Morgan 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