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Posted on 9/15/13 at 6:06 am to BadLeroyDawg
Posted on 9/15/13 at 6:06 am to BadLeroyDawg
Tuesday, 15 September 1863
The “writ of habeas corpus” is a fairly simple concept, despite its Latin name. It refers to the right of an arrested person to know what charges are being brought, and of the obligation of the state to produce evidence that the person charged was the one who committed the offense. It was one of the shining lights of the United States Constitution, and it went right out the window today. Due to the existence of a “state of rebellion”, wrote Abraham Lincoln, the right would be suspended in cases of people arrested by military authorities whenever they deemed fit.
Rear Admiral David D. Porter, writing to the Navy Department from Cairo, Illinois, under this date, says: The river below seems quiet. There has been but one attempt made to obstruct commerce or transportation. A party of guerrillas attacked the gunboat Champion from behind the levee while she was convoying a body of troops below. The troops passed on safely, and the Champion stopped and fought the rebels until she made them retire, losing some of their men — report says fifty-seven. They have not been heard of since, excepting that they were falling back on Alexandria, General Herron having given them a chase with his division. As I came up, I overtook a part of the Marine Brigade under Colonel Curry. He reported to me that he had just captured at Bolivar three rebel paymasters with two million two hundred thousand dollars in confederate money to pay off the soldiers at Little Rock. He also captured the escort consisting of thirty-five men. This will not improve the dissatisfaction now existing General Price's army, and the next news we hear will be that General Steele has possession of Little Rock. The gunboats pick up deserters every day, who say the rebels do not intend to fight in Arkansas, and that with proper steps she will be in the Union again in forty days. Lieutenant Bache captured a Colonel Mattock, who was on a conscription expedition, and it gave unusual satisfaction to all the people.
At Richmond, Virginia, three Irishwomen were charged with buying a load of mush-melons in the Second Market, with intent to retail them, and were fined five dollars, and the melons were ordered to be confiscated. It is well the attention of the efficient clerk of the Second Market has been called to these creatures. They swarm through the market every morning, and buy up the major part of the fruit brought in by the country people, and take it to their houses to retail. As they understand the world, a jug of whiskey and a half dozen melons, and a dozen hard boiled eggs, constitute a respectable store.
M. Larue Harrison, commanding a force of Federal troops three hundred strong, attacked the combined forces of the Confederates Coffee and Brown at Seneca Station, one mile west of Enterprise, at the mouth of Buffalo Creek, Indian Territory, at ten o'clock this morning, and after an engagement of two hours, completely routed them, driving them southward in disorder. As the engagement occurred in a dense grape vine thicket, it was impossible to estimate the loss of the Rebels; five were ascertained to have been killed, among them a Captain W. R. Johnson. Colonel Harrison lost none, either in killed, wounded, or missing.
A magazine on James Island, South Carolina, belonging to the Rebels, exploded, killing a lieutenant and six men. Chat Discussion
The “writ of habeas corpus” is a fairly simple concept, despite its Latin name. It refers to the right of an arrested person to know what charges are being brought, and of the obligation of the state to produce evidence that the person charged was the one who committed the offense. It was one of the shining lights of the United States Constitution, and it went right out the window today. Due to the existence of a “state of rebellion”, wrote Abraham Lincoln, the right would be suspended in cases of people arrested by military authorities whenever they deemed fit.
Rear Admiral David D. Porter, writing to the Navy Department from Cairo, Illinois, under this date, says: The river below seems quiet. There has been but one attempt made to obstruct commerce or transportation. A party of guerrillas attacked the gunboat Champion from behind the levee while she was convoying a body of troops below. The troops passed on safely, and the Champion stopped and fought the rebels until she made them retire, losing some of their men — report says fifty-seven. They have not been heard of since, excepting that they were falling back on Alexandria, General Herron having given them a chase with his division. As I came up, I overtook a part of the Marine Brigade under Colonel Curry. He reported to me that he had just captured at Bolivar three rebel paymasters with two million two hundred thousand dollars in confederate money to pay off the soldiers at Little Rock. He also captured the escort consisting of thirty-five men. This will not improve the dissatisfaction now existing General Price's army, and the next news we hear will be that General Steele has possession of Little Rock. The gunboats pick up deserters every day, who say the rebels do not intend to fight in Arkansas, and that with proper steps she will be in the Union again in forty days. Lieutenant Bache captured a Colonel Mattock, who was on a conscription expedition, and it gave unusual satisfaction to all the people.
At Richmond, Virginia, three Irishwomen were charged with buying a load of mush-melons in the Second Market, with intent to retail them, and were fined five dollars, and the melons were ordered to be confiscated. It is well the attention of the efficient clerk of the Second Market has been called to these creatures. They swarm through the market every morning, and buy up the major part of the fruit brought in by the country people, and take it to their houses to retail. As they understand the world, a jug of whiskey and a half dozen melons, and a dozen hard boiled eggs, constitute a respectable store.
M. Larue Harrison, commanding a force of Federal troops three hundred strong, attacked the combined forces of the Confederates Coffee and Brown at Seneca Station, one mile west of Enterprise, at the mouth of Buffalo Creek, Indian Territory, at ten o'clock this morning, and after an engagement of two hours, completely routed them, driving them southward in disorder. As the engagement occurred in a dense grape vine thicket, it was impossible to estimate the loss of the Rebels; five were ascertained to have been killed, among them a Captain W. R. Johnson. Colonel Harrison lost none, either in killed, wounded, or missing.
A magazine on James Island, South Carolina, belonging to the Rebels, exploded, killing a lieutenant and six men. Chat Discussion
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Posted on 9/16/13 at 4:23 am to BadLeroyDawg
Wednesday, 16 September 1863
General William Rosecrans' Federal army had easily taken abandoned Chattanooga four days ago, but Braxton Bragg's Confederate army was nowhere close to being defeated. The Southern forces were strung out on a roughly north-south line on the east side of a ridge called Lookout Mountain. Rosecrans' army was scattered and vulnerable, especially the men with General George Henry Thomas to the south near McLemore's Cove. Thomas could have easily been isolated and defeated, but the orders to do so never got delivered to General Thomas C. Hindman. The man carrying the orders, a French soldier-of-fortune known as Major Nocquot, was not available to testify at the court-martial of Hindman, as he had disappeared. Some $150,000 in Army funds went missing around the same time, but in all the confusion no connection was ever proved.
The Federal flagship USS San Jacinto, under Lieutenant Commander Ralph Chandler, captured the blockade running steamer Lizzie Davis off the west coast of Florida in latitude 25 degrees 58 minutes north, longitude 85 degrees 11 minutes west. She had been bound from Havana to Mobile with a large cargo including lead.
The USS Coeur de Lion, Acting Master W. G. Morris in charge, seized the schooner Robert Knowles on the Potomac River for violating the blockade.
The Confederate forces made an attempt to recross the Rapidan River, but were foiled by Union artillery and cavalry. They advanced in three columns, with artillery, toward the river, but being opposed by the mass of Federal troops on the north side, soon fell back.
A spirited skirmish took place at White Plains, Virginia, in which the Confederates were beaten back by overwhelming numbers.
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General William Rosecrans' Federal army had easily taken abandoned Chattanooga four days ago, but Braxton Bragg's Confederate army was nowhere close to being defeated. The Southern forces were strung out on a roughly north-south line on the east side of a ridge called Lookout Mountain. Rosecrans' army was scattered and vulnerable, especially the men with General George Henry Thomas to the south near McLemore's Cove. Thomas could have easily been isolated and defeated, but the orders to do so never got delivered to General Thomas C. Hindman. The man carrying the orders, a French soldier-of-fortune known as Major Nocquot, was not available to testify at the court-martial of Hindman, as he had disappeared. Some $150,000 in Army funds went missing around the same time, but in all the confusion no connection was ever proved.
The Federal flagship USS San Jacinto, under Lieutenant Commander Ralph Chandler, captured the blockade running steamer Lizzie Davis off the west coast of Florida in latitude 25 degrees 58 minutes north, longitude 85 degrees 11 minutes west. She had been bound from Havana to Mobile with a large cargo including lead.
The USS Coeur de Lion, Acting Master W. G. Morris in charge, seized the schooner Robert Knowles on the Potomac River for violating the blockade.
The Confederate forces made an attempt to recross the Rapidan River, but were foiled by Union artillery and cavalry. They advanced in three columns, with artillery, toward the river, but being opposed by the mass of Federal troops on the north side, soon fell back.
A spirited skirmish took place at White Plains, Virginia, in which the Confederates were beaten back by overwhelming numbers.
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