Hardy settlers' thrills and experiences (part 2)
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Civil War digest: This week 150 years ago Jan. 21-27, 1863
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Wednesday, Jan. 21, 1863
The winter rains continued to be Major General Ambrose Burnside’s worst enemy along the Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg, Va. His Federal Army of the Potomac was bogged down in mud and slime, failing to make any appreciable progress.
In his diary, 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Sergeant Myron Shepard writes, “Rained all last night and nearly all day without cissation. Other troops are on the march but luckily for us, we remain in camp.”
Civil War digest: This week 150 years ago Jan. 14-20, 1863
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Wednesday, Jan. 14, 1863
At Bayou Teche, La., three Federal gunboats and troops attacked the Confederate gunboat Cotton and land fortifications. After a sharp assault, the gunboat was burned by Confederates the following morning.
Confederate General E. Kirby Smith was assigned to command of the Army of the Southwest.
Hardy settlers’ thrills and experiences
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Text is a prize-winning essay on local pioneer history, written by Margaret Cairns. Her essay was printed in the St. Cloud Daily Journal Press March 9, 1926.
Margaret Cairns, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cairns of Rice, and a student of Technical High School, was awarded first place in St. Cloud in the historical essay contest now in progress all over the state under the auspices of the Minnesota Federation of Women’s Clubs, is the descendant of some of the most prominent pioneers of the community. She has written for the contest a story which tells an interesting vein of the life of pioneer settlers in this section.
In 1853 my grandfather and grandmother, Cordelia and Martin Greely, left the state of Maine for the west. They stayed in Wisconsin until June 1856 when they left La Crosse, going by boat to St. Paul and then on to St. Cloud in a prairie schooner drawn by a yoke of oxen named Tom and Jerre. The schooner held all of their wordly possessions excepting a half dozen chickens, which were suspended in a crate beneath the wagon.
Civil War digest: This week 150 years ago Jan. 7-13, 1863
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Major Highlights for the Week
Wednesday, Jan. 7, 1863
Confederates captured Ozark, Mo., and moved onto Springfield.
A group of 450 women and children left Washington, D.C., for Richmond, Va., and the South with permission of the Federal government.