CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1862 Abstracts 518 - 529 CIVIL WAR - Appointments & Promotions (Cont'd) 518 L Sept. 2:3/1 - Major John C. Groom of the 84th Ohio regiment has been promoted to the colonelcy of the 100th regiment. 519 L Sept. 9:3/1 - Captain James H. Cole has been reappointed captain in the 41st Ohio regiment. Capt. William R. Tolles has been promoted to lieutenant colonel of the 105th. (1) (1) 520 - L Sept. 12:2/2 Oliver H. Payne of Cleveland has been appointed lieutenant colonel of the 124th regiment. (1) 521 - L Sept. 15:3/1 - T. Reeve Spencer of the 2nd Ohio cavalry has been promoted to a second lieutenancy. (1) 522 L Sept. 16:3/1 - Colonel Hazen of the 41st Ohio has been appointed post commandant at Murfreesboro, Tenn. A force of 25,000 is being concentrated there. Bragg is expected to attack. (1) 523 L Sept. 16:3/1 Lieutenant Colonel George S. Mygatt of the 41st Ohio has been appointed inspector general at Louisville on General Gilbert's staff. Seven thousand troops, mostly green men, are at Louisville. (1) Captain Emerson Opdycke of Co. A, 41st Ohio, has (2) been promoted to the colonelcy of the 125th Ohio. 525 - L Sept. 22:2/2 - Dr. J. S. Dickenson of this city was appointed assistant surgeon in the army and ordered to Frederick City, MD. He will leave for Washington this morning. 526 L Sept. 24; ed: 3/1 Captain Koutz of the sixth U. S. cavalry (1) (1) 527 L Sept. 24:3/4 The 84th Ohio regiment is to be reorganized, and the following promotions will be made: Captain Halbert Case to colonel; Captain James Pickands to lieutenant colonel; Captain Winder to major. Colonel Case filled the office of provost marshal in Cumberland with ability and tact. Lieutenant Colonel Pickands won the hearts of all his men by his uniform kindness and his efficiency. Major Winder is an excellent drill master. 528 L Sept. 26:3/1 - Gilbert L. Coleman, first officer of the NORTH STAR, has been appointed master's mate in the U. S. navy and ordered to report at Cairo immediately. 529 L Oct. 2:3/1 - A son of Judge Coffinberry of this city, a promising young man of 20, joined the flotilla as a private a few weeks ago. He has just received an appointment as master's mate. (3) (2) (1) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1862 Abstracts 530 - 540 CIVIL WAR Appointments & Promotions (Cont'd) 530 L Oct. 4:3/1 - Sergeant S. M. Bauder, who distinguished himself for bravery, at the battle of Pittsburgh Landing has been promoted to a lieutenancy in the 54th regiment Ohio volunteers. Bauder is a Clevelander. (1) 531 L Oct. 23:1/1 Colonel John W. Calwell has been removed by Governor Tod, and Colonel Allison has been appointed to fill his vacancy at Camp Dennison. (1) 532 L Oct. 27:3/2 - Orderly Sergeant James K. O'Reiley was promoted to first lieutenant of the eight Ohio, and Thomas F. Galway was promoted to second lieutenant of the same regiment. Both are from Cleveland. They have been promoted to positions in the Hibernian Guards, vacated by the deaths of two lieutenants killed at Boonsborough. (7) 533 L Oct. 29; ed: 3/1 - A dispatch says that James Pickands, late of the 84th, has been promoted. "If this is so, the 124th will have a... perfect gentleman for it's Major." (2) 534 - L Oct. 30; ed: 2/1 - The appointment of General Rosecrans to the command of East Tennessee is a peculiarly happy one. With all the failures and humiliations of General Buell's campaign before him, General Rosecrans will move on to victory. "We can now look with hope and confidence to the coming campaign in the West." 536 L Nov. 4:2/1 Isarel Garard has been officially made colonel of the nineth Ohio cavalry, and George G. Miner of Cleveland has been appointed lieutenant colonel. 537 L Nov. 4; ed: 4/1 - Charles E. Wilson, our old friend, has been tendered an appointment as lieutenant in the tenth cavalry. He would be obliged to leave a large and flourishing business in news dealings. "We believe that if he can settle his business to his satisfaction he will enter the service." (7) (2) (1) (2) 538 L Nov. 4:4/1 - Governor David Tod informed the Hon. R. P. Spaulding that his brave and gallant boy, Zeph, was made lieutenant colonel of the 27th Ohio regiment. His friends in this city will rejoice at the major's promotions. (2) 539 L Nov. 5:2/1 Captain James P. McLlarth of Cleveland has been promoted to the rank of major in the 23rd regiment. (2) 540 L Nov. 8; ed: 4/2 John Savoy of this city went away with the 61st regiment as a private, and he is likely to be promoted to a second CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1862 Abstracts 541 - 548 CIVIL WAR - Appointments & Promotions (Cont'd) lieutenancy. He is valuable to Colonel McGroarty. "If it is necessary to ride sixty miles in order to obtain whiskey for the Colonel, John is the man to do it. Such talent must not be unrewarded." 541 L Nov. 17; ed: 2/2 - Captain J. J. Elwell, of this city has been promoted to chief quartermaster on General Hunter's staff, with the rank of lieutenant colonel. (2) (1) 542 L Nov. 18:1/3 Lieutenant Theodore S. Mahan, the son of President Mahan of Adrian, and formerly of this city, has been promoted to the command of a company in the 16th Michigan regiment for gallant service in the late battles. (1) 543 L Nov. 21; ed: 3/2 E. T. Stevenson, formerly employed in the C. and E. machine shop in this city, was appointed assistant hospital steward at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, Pa. "The promotion is well deserved." Bandits & Guerrillas 544 L Apr. 29; ed: 2/1 The mountain department seems of late to be infested by gangs of guerrillas organized under the direction of the Rebel Governor Letcher. General Fremont has taken steps to destroy them; his movements, according to the telegraph, proving eminently successful. (2) "We may expect more lively times in the Mountain Department soon." (2) 545 L May 6; ed: 2/1 - The Wheeling INTELLIGENCER congratulates the people of western Virginia because General Fremont has inaugurated a system of dealing with the lawless and guerrilla bands of Rebels. The new system promises to speedily rid the state of the scoundrels. "This doctrine and this making an example of a few of the ring leaders has made more Union men in a month than a conciliatory tone would do in a year." (3) 546 L July 28; ed: 3/2 - The Western army is not actively employed, and there is no excuse for not having sufficient guards for supply trains. Such guards would permit the capture of the guerrillas who have been so active. 547 L Aug. 4; ed: 2/2 The boats contemplated for the Ohio river will 548 L Aug. 12:1/2 In an unsigned letter to the editor from Camp Morehead, Columbia, Tenn., dated Aug. 5, an anonymous person says: Two out of our three sections are waiting under orders, for a cavalry escort to march to Murfreesboro. We march at night, as the days are too hot. We have had brushes with some of the numerous bands of guerrillas. A large (6) (5) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1862 Abstracts 549 - 554 CIVIL WAR - Bandits & Guerrillas (Cont'd) reconnoitering party charged into Williamsport just as a "secesh" force of 30 or 40 was leaving. We pursued them, capturing several that had dismounted and gone into the corn field. The captured guerrillas are treated with too much consideration, and the troops are digusted. Stern measures must be adopted soon. Corporal Martin J. Bender of Cleveland is being discharged as disabled. 549 L Sept. 19; ed: 2/1 - "Rebels though they are, the Southern leaders have set us some good examples during this war in the way of making war, which we have generally, unfortunately, failed to follow." Kirby Smith, leader of the Kentucky invading army, has issued a strigent order to the citizens against bushwacking, in which he says that if his soldiers are fired upon from the woods, the persons will be hung when they are caught and their houses and property will be destroyed. And it is only by adopting like stern measures that we shall successfully combat them. We have had no general system of instant and certain execution of guerrillas, and so our soldiers are picked off seriatim by cowardly rebel sympathisers. "We will warrant that Kirby Smith had no more soldiers shot after his order was generally circulated. Let our Generals learn a lesson from him, and go and do likewise." (18) (6) 550 L Oct. 8; ed: 2/1 - The Cincinnati ENQUIRER says that the guerrilla murders by secessionists in Kentucky "should be frowned down." Certainly it should; it is irregular opposition." (1) 551 L Oct. 18; ed: 2/2 Seven private citizens were overhauled by guerrillas between Nashville and Owensboro on Oct. 14 and three or four thousand in gold and U. S. treasury notes taken from them. They promised to refund the greenbacks to them on the next day. "It is needless to say, they did not meet them." (3) 552 L Nov. 5:1/1 - Allen Welton and son, with a party of seven, have just arrived in this city from Nashville. They report the whole country infested with guerrillas. Provisions are scarce at Nashville and foraging parties are the order of the day. There is great need of all hospital stores, and our benevolent ladies are urged to still greater exertions in behalf of the sick and wounded. (5) 553 L Dec. 9; ed: 4/1 We hear that Major Pickands of the 124th regiment has been promoted to lieutenant colonel of the regiment, and Captain Hampson of the first Ohio has been promoted to major of the 124th. "Both are excellent officers and well deserving of promotion." (2) Blockades 554 L Mar. 21; ed:2/1 Yancey, the Rebel, has been captured while attempting to run the blockade. "It would have been better for him had he CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1862 stayed in London; there he could at least have had the sympathies of the crown officers and the TIMES, and he would have been much more out of harms way at the hands of an outraged government, but he chose to return to his household of fellow traitors, and must now be content to bide his time behind the grated doors of a prison, with no hope of English intervention in his behalf." 555 L Aug. 15; ed:2/1 - In connection with the answer of the British foreign minister, Earl Russell, to complaints of English blockade runners, we believe Earl Russell to be guiltless. (5) (5) 556 L Oct. 2; ed: 2/1 Secretary Seward has, through Mr. Adams, minister to Great Britain, notified foreign governments of the intention of our government to issue letters of marque to American vessels, authorizing them to hunt and capture Rebel privateers and English vesseels engaged in carrying contrabands of war to Rebel ports. The English press is horrified at the suggestion that the American government will stop the English sympathizers who give aid and comfort to those in arms against the authority of the United States. Years ago England and France endeavored to put down privateering and asked the United States to join them in a treaty. Our government asked England and France to join her in an acknowledgment that, in war, the neutral flag protected the whole cargo and that private property was not to be subject to capture by vessels of war. This request was refused and the United States ignored the treaty. Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion, the United States government offered to accept the original proposition, but the request was refused and thus the "secesh" was given the privilege of a navy of privateers. Thus did England and France lose the best opportunity to cripple America and other powers of small navies by a treaty making privateering piracy. Now they are beginning to find to their cost, that they let pass the golden moment which, we trust, will never again return. Yankee clipper ships and steamers will swarm every sea and if a Rebel vessel or an English one violates our laws, is caught within our waters, capture is its portion. The United States never has had and perhaps never will have a navy composed of vessels of war in numbers sufficient to cope with England and France in the event of war, but aided by her privateers, she can bid defiance to a navy of any power on the globe. We are glad that the government has determined to issue letters of marque for it will at once put a stop in English and French vessels running our blockades and will soon haul down and capture rebel privateers. We will make them feel in the most sensitive part that "honesty is the best policy." (15) 557 L Nov. 13; ed: 2/1 - An iron-plated vessel had some 12 rifle shots fired directly against her sides without any effect whatever when she ran |