HIGHLY IMPORTANT NEWS: The Particulars of the Battle of Booneville, Mo.; Brilliant Ruse de Guerre of General Lyon; Editorial-Operations in Western Virginia (6/20/1861)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 6/20/1861

[Homer_J_Simpson]

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, June 19.

Lieut. WOOLLEY, of the Twenty-fifth New-York, died at the encampment of that regiment this afternoon at 4 o'clock. He was a Supervisor of Albany City. His body will be sent home for interment.

The reported return of a regiment of the rebels to Harper's Ferry on Monday was true. They came back for some mechanics proficient in rifle making. Having impressed as many of these mechanics as they could find, the regiment retreated with them under a guard.

SUPPLIES FOR THE REBELS.

It is ascertained that the rebels have lines of communication across the Potomac from Budd's Ferry down. Small boats are used in the night, which are concealed in the bushes by day, and thus avoid the observation of our cruisers. Only letters and newspapers are conveyed thus, the supplies of provisions going in through Kentucky and Tennessee, instead of via Baltimore and Frederick, as heretofore.

A broker in Baltimore lately took $10,000 in Virginia money to Richmond, and obtained a draft on New York for the amount at seven and one-half per cent. Why was this done? Can your brokers explain?

The Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment have crossed the river with wagons, &c., to take position on the Virginia side toward Vienna.

JOHN H. SMITH, who refused to take the oath at the Treasury Department, was yesterday removed.

Col. STONE'S command is still occupied in guarding the Maryland bank of the Potomac, the ferries opposite Leesburgh, and ten miles further up the river.

From Romney Col. WALLACE reports that the rebels retreated summarily to Winchester, and that he secured and brought their tents to Cumberland Camp. The rout of the Disunionists at Romney was total. Several funerals took place in the town next day.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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Highly Important News: The Particulars of the Battle of Booneville, Mo. – 2
Important from Missouri: The Slaughter of Rebels at Booneville – 2-3
Affairs in Western Virginia: Operations of the Rebel Forces – 3
The London Times Correspondent – 3
Important Order from Gen. McDowell – 3
Western Virginia: Declaration of Independence and Plan for Reorganization – 3
Editorial: The Rebellion in Missouri-Prompt and Vigorous Action – 3-4
Editorial: The Position Assumed at Wheeling – 4
Editorial: Famine Among the Confederates – 4-5
Editorial: Operations in Western Virginia – 5
A Lesson from the Enemy – 5
Beauty and Booty – 5
A Secessionist and Incendiary Hung – 5
Movements of Transports – 5
From Fairfax Court-House – 5

[enumerated]

It would be educational once in a while to show how these same events were reported in Southern newspapers, instead of always the NYT.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I’ve got my hands full with the Times. The other day someone posted some articles from a southern paper. That’s great. If you have access go ahead and post them as replies.

[BroJoeK]

"A Lesson from the Enemy – 5"

Again our editors complain about the Union's practice of paroling Prisoners of War merely on their oaths to stop fighting.
The editors recommend holding Confederate prisoners in exchange for captured Union soldiers.

By war's end both paroling and exchanging prisoners will break down, though thankfully not before one of my great-grandfathers first met Confederate cavalry under Nathan Bedford Forrest.

[enumerated]

“If you have access go ahead and post them as replies.”

I don’t really want to add to already excessive CW2 talk on FR.

The War Between the States gets brought up here all the time in the same cliche fashion - i.e we Republicans are the good guys because 165 years ago we made the Democrats give up their slaves.

That’s such a dumbed-down version of history and is completely irrelevant to what distinguishes the two parties today.

Besides, if we are to conflate 165-year-old party behaviors with behaviors of today, shouldn’t we also assume that 165-year-old reporting by the NYT was fake news lies, just as it is today?

[BroJoeK]

This listing includes Booneville and Camp Cole, both in Missouri.
So, of the 13 encounters thus far:

1. -- 6 in Virginia (CSA)
2. -- 3 in Missouri (USA)
3. -- 2 in South Carolina (CSA)
4. -- 1 in West Virginia (USA)
5. -- 1 in Maryland (USA)

Total casualties, including civilians wounded in Baltimore & St. Louis are approaching 600.

Date	Engagement	Military Units	Losses	Victor
April 12-14	Fort Sumter, SC	Confederate artillery, Union garrison	None	CSA
April 15	Evacuation of Fort Sumter, SC	Union garrison	Two Union soldiers killed, four wounded by accidental explosion	N.A.
April 19	Baltimore Riots, MD	MA 6th, PA 26th vs secessionist crowd	4 Union soldiers killed, 12 civilians killed, hundreds wounded	USA
May 10	St. Louis Riots, MO	Union forces vs secessionist crowd	4 Union soldiers killed, 3 prisoners, 28 civilians killed	USA
May 18-19	Sewell's Point, VA	Union naval squadron vs Confederate shore artillery	10 total	inconclusive
May 29- June 1	Aquila Creek, VA	Union naval squadron vs Confederate shore artillery	10 total	inconclusive
June 1	Fairfax Court House, VA	detachments from CSA & USA armies	8 on each side, 1 each killed	inconclusive
June 3	Philippi, WVA	Union Dept of Ohio (McClellan), CSA infantry	Union 4, CSA 26 (killed or wounded)	USA
June 10	Big Bethel, VA	Union: 3,500 (Butler) , CSA 1,400 (Magruder)	Union 18-killed 53-wounded, CSA: 1-K 9-W	CSA
June 15	Hoo's Ferry (near Mathias Point) VA	Union schooner Christina Keen; CSA Farmer's Fork Grays	none -- Christina Keen captured and burned	CSA
June 17	Vienna, VA	Detachments from both Union & CSA armies	Union: 8 killed, 4 wounded; CSA: none reported	CSA
June 17	Boonville, MO	Union Western Dept (Lyon) 1,700 vs. MO State Guard (Marmaduke) ~1,500	Union: 5-killed, 7-wounded, MO Guard 5-k 17-w	USA
June 18	Camp Cole, MO	Union Home Guards (~500), Confederate State Guards (~350)	Union: 35 killed, 60 wounded 25 captured CSA: 7-K, 25-W	CSA

[BroJoeK]

enumerated: "That’s such a dumbed-down version of history and is completely irrelevant to what distinguishes the two parties today."

And that is just your own dumbed-down version of history.
In fact, Democrats then were the same kinds of people they are today: radicals, violently at war against the United States and our Constitution, determined to preserve at all costs their own special privileges at the expense of non-Democrat Americans.
Democrats then as now were an alliance of big business (then it was mainly cotton) with Big City immigrant bosses.

Republicans then as now were ordinary, small-town, small-business conservative Americans devoted to our founding principles and documents.
In 1860 we were willing to live & let live with slavery in the South, but not at the expense of losing the Democrats' war against the United States.

Oh, dear... did I hurt your poor feelings?
Do you need a safe space... maybe a support animal?

[enumerated]

I hope you didn’t waste too much time writing whatever you wrote..