NEWS FROM WASHINGTON: The Creation of New Departments for Gens. Banks and McDowell; A Rebel Government Organized for Arizona (4/6/1862)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 4/6/1862

[Homer_J_Simpson]

WASHINGTON, Saturday, April 5.

EVENTS OF THE COMING WEEK.

The coming week will furnish an interesting page in the history of the rebellion and the country. The War and Navy Departments to-day furnish no news that can be published.

THE TWO NEW DEPARTMENTS.

The creation of the two new Departments, for Maj.-Gen. BANKS and Maj.-Gen. MCDOWELL, has been freely discussed to-day. The fact that Gen. MCCLELLAN is to the field, at the head of his troops, and is acting upon the expectation that MCDOWELL's corps d'armee will prove one of his supports in the execution of his great programme excites discussion, as to why this change is so suddenly made, and in the face of the enemy. There is nothing strange in the creation of a separate department for Gen. BANKS, as he is so remote from the specialty to be accomplished by Gen. MCCLELLAN in which he depended upon the active support of MCDOWELL's corps. It looks now very much as though the two Macs had been pilled against each other, and it would be a good joke, after all, if BANKS' dashing movement down the valley, between the mountain ranges of the Shenandoah and Blue Ridge, should frighten the rebels from Gordonsville, and drive them precipitately out of Virginia, thus cheating both [???] out of a fight.

ORDERED TO RETURN TO THEIR REGIMENT.

A special order, issued to-day from the War Department, is as follows:

"Col. D'UTASSY, of the Garibaldi Guard, New-York Volunteers, and all the officers of Gen. BLENKER's Division who are now under arrest, are hereby released from arrest, and will join their regiments without delay, and assume their respective commands."

EX-SENATOR GWIN.

It is not believed in prominent circles that ex-Senator-GWIN has arrived at Richmond, is announced from Fortress Monroe.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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News from Washington: The Creation of New Departments for Gens. Banks and McDowell – 2-3
From Gen. Hooker’s Division: The Potomac Batteries Not Occupied – 3
From the Shenandoah Valley: Rumored Revolt of a Portion of Jackson’s Command – 3
News from Fortress Monroe: Dispatch from Gen. Wool to Secretary Stanton – 4
Operations below Savannah: Arrival of the Storeship Supply – 4
From the Tennessee River – 4
From Island No. Ten: How the Rebel Battery was Discomfited – 4
From Gen. Pope’s Command: The Capture of New-Madrid – 4-5
The Expedition Up the Tennessee – 5
From Corinth, Miss. – 5
Editorial: Rebel Desperation-The Deposition of King Cotton – 5-6
Organization of Arizona Territory – 6
Editorial: Our Iron-Plated Champions – 6
Mr. Lincoln’s Plan in England – 6

[C210N]

Have you heard the line of thinking/theory that there are two 13th amendments, and that the first one, prohibiting titles of nobility, was wiped during Civil War reconstruction, and the current 13th abolishing slavery substituted?

The Real Thirteenth Article of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States - Titles of Nobility and Honour

Amendment Article XIII

"If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from any Emperor, King, Prince, or foreign Power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them."

[Prince of Space]

Thanks! Very informative!

[BroJoeK]

"Today" begins the Battle of Shiloh, with US Grant's forces caught off-guard.

Tennessee 1862 Engagements

Date	Engagement	Military Units	Losses	Victor
Feb 6	Fort Henry, TN	Union Army of TN + West Flotilla (Grant, Foote ~15,000) & Confederate Army of Cent KY (Tilghman ~3,200)	Union 40-total, Confederates 79-total (15 killed)	USA
Feb 14-16	Fort Donelson, TN	Union Army of the Tennessee + Mississippi River Squadron (Grant, Foote 24,531) & Confederate Army of Central KY + garrison (Floyd, Pillow, Buchner 16,171)	Union 2,691-total (507-killed), Confederates 13,846-total (327-killed)	USA
April 6-7	Shiloh, TN	Union Army of West Tennessee (Grant, Buell ~63,000) & Confederate Army of Mississippi (AS Johnson, Beauregard ~40,335)	Union 13,047-total (1,754-killed), Confederate 10,699-total (1,728-killed)	USA

Shiloh will be the war's deadliest to date, with five times the casualties of Manassas/Bull Run, in this one battle increasing total casualties by nearly 50% and killed in action by 75%.

Summary of Civil War Engagements as of April7, 1862:
Engagements in Confederate states:

State	Union Victories	Confederate Victories	Inconclusive	Total Engagements
South Carolina	1	1	1	3
Virginia	5	11	7	23
North Carolina	3	0	0	3
Florida	1	0	0	1
Louisiana	0	1	0	1
Tennessee	3	0	0	3
Arkansas	1	0	1	2
Total Engagements in CSA	14	13	9	36

Engagements in Union states/territories:

State	Union Victories	Confederate Victories	Inconclusive	Total Engagements
Maryland	1	0	1	2
West Virginia	9	2	2	13
Missouri	11	9	1	21
New Mexico	2	7	0	9
Kentucky	4	3	2	9
Oklahoma	0	3	0	3
Total Engagements in Union	27	24	6	57
Total Engagements to date	41	37	15	93

[nathanbedford]

if BANKS' dashing movement down the valley, between the mountain ranges of the Shenandoah and Blue Ridge, should frighten the rebels from Gordonsville, and drive them precipitately out of Virginia,

Nothing further to report for now, that is all from Baghdad Bob.

[sauropod]

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[cowboyusa]

160th Anaversery of the Battle that changed Civil War 1.