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4,037 Visit Museum in April; 572 Are Students
Confederate General's DhiW .
By MERTON T. AKERS
UPI Correspondent
John Bankhead Magruder
had delighted in amateur the
atricals when he was a garri
son officer in the "Old Army"
before the Civil War.
With his play acting he
combined the qualities of a
good host he set a good ta
ble and he knew his wines.
All this won mm the title of
"Prince John.".
But he never put on an
amateur show which matched
the professional act he staged
at Yorktown, Va., in April
and the early part of May
1862.
This was "Prince John's"
day in the sun and his acting
was so good that it brought
from one of the better critics
on the scene Confederate
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston the
"rave review" that "this judi
cious course saved Rich
mond." Testy old General
Johnston, Magruder's com
mander, was not one to be
stow so generous an accolade
lightly.
Ma). Gen. George B. Mc
Clellan had landed about 100,
000 Union troops at Fort Mon
roe, Va., by the first days of
April. The peninsula lay
(head, a narrow neck of land
with Richmond, Va., the Con-
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mond was the goal the North
was clamoring to be taken.
First Target
McClellan started his army
up the peninsula on April 4.
The first target was York
town, Va., on the York river
where it flows into Chesa
peake Bay.
The Army of the Potomac
came to a dead halt the first
day when it ran into a 10-mile
long entrenched line running
across the peninsula nearly to
the James river on the left.
To McClellan, it appeared
to be a formidable line. Big
guns poked their noses from
it at frequent intervals. Much
activity behind the lines could
be observed from the ground
and verified from an observa
tion balloon.
Obviously here was a situa
tion calling for siege, bom
bardment and then a grand
assault when the line was
breached.
McClellan promptly tele
graphed Washington for heav
ier artillery and more troops.
His intelligence, which came
from Detective Allan Pinker
ton, was that 80,000 Confed
erates manned the line.
Lincoln's Message
President Lincoln, skepti
cal, ordered the guns and the
troops sent but on April 6 he
wired McClellan that "I think
you better break the enemy
line from Yorktown to the
Warwick river at once."
McClellan ignored the tele,
gram and went about prepar
ing for the siege.
Magruder, a major general,
now staged his best produc
tion. He kept marching his
men around where they could
be observed by the Union
forces and counted many
times. Bugles blew up and
down the line, indicating
closely positioned forces.
Campfires dotted the land
scape. Magruder gave the im
pression that he confidently
awaited attack. "Little Mac"
believed it.
Actually, at the start, Ma
gruder had about 15,000 men
not the 50,000 McClellan gave
him credit for. Most of the
"guns" that awed the Federals
were "Quaker guns" peeled
logs painted black, the same
kind Johnston had used at
Manassas to fool McClellan
before.
Magruder's tricks worked
all through April while John
ston hurried troops into the
peninsula. Civil War history
contains no account in which
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so few bamboozled so many
with so little.
Early In May, McClellan
decided he was ready to re
duce the line with his new big
guns.
But on the night of May 3-4
Johnston quietly abandoned
the Yorktown line and started
his army northwest toward
Richmond.
McClellan then "took"
Yorktown without a fight and
called it a "glorious victory."
He sent his cavalry in pur
suit. They caught up with the
Rebels outside Williamsburg,
one-time capital of Virginia
where Thomas Jefferson went
to school at William and Mary
college and served in the
House of Burgesses with
George Washington and Pat
rick Henry the same Wil
liamsburg which now had
been restored to its 19th cen
tury glory.
The armies fought the bat
tle of Williamsburg on May
5-6, 1862, as a sort of curtain
raiser to the maneuvers which
would be called the Peninsu
lar campaign.
The battle, fought as a de
laying action by the Confed
erates while their army made
its way up the peninsula,
hinged on an engagement on
the Federal right where Brig.
Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock
commanded. It was his first
combat of the Civil War as
well as the first for many of
his men. There was a gap be
tween his troops and other
Union forces. Seeing the gap,
the Confederates under Ma)
Gen. James Longstreet and
Maj. Gen. D. H. Hill attacked.
Mad Flna Picture
Thomas W. Hyde of the 7th
Maine Volunteers and under
fire for the first time, de
scribed the attack:
. . . on the Confederates
came, and a fine picture of a
charge they made. They were
at the double quick, and were
coming over a ploughed field,
diagonally across our front . .
They could not see us as we
lay flat on the ground. From
my place on the left of the
regiment, I saw General Han
cock, bareheaded, alone, a
magnificent figure; and with
a voice hoarse with shouting
he gave us the order, 'For
ward, Charger The papers
had it that he said, Charge,
gentlemen, charge,' but he
was more emphatic than that;
the air was blue all around
him.
"Well, we started and the
long line of sabre bayonets
came down together as if one
man swayed them as we
crossed the crest, and with a
roar of cheers the 7th Maine
dashed on . . .the foe, breath
less from their long tug over
the heavy ground, seemed i-o
dissolve all at once into a qui
vering and disintegrating
mass, and to scatter in all di
rections. Upon this we halted
and opened fire, and the view
of it through the smoke was
pitiful. They were falling
everywhere; white handker
chiefs were held up in token
of surrender , . . We gathered
in .some 300 prisoners before
dark. Then the rain came,
though there is nothing espe
cially remarkable about that,
for it was always coming
down . . ."
McClellan came by and
c o m p 1 i m e n ted Hancock's
troops and telegraphed Wash
ington that "Hancock was su
perb." From then on this "tall,
soldierly man with the light
brown hair and a heavy mili
tary jaw . . . who always has
a clean white shirt . . ." was
"Hancock the Superb."
The Confederate rear guard,
having delayed the Union
army long enough for John
ston fo move his army and
trains out of danger, with
drew. "Little Mac" now wheeled
his army into line and started
up the peninsula toward Rich
mond on "sand y, year-
around" roads his Intelligence
officers had reported but
which by now were hub deep
in sticky mud.
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Jacksonville - The Jackson'
ville museum recorded the
largest April attendance in its
history last month, according
to Miss Mary Hanley, curator.
Attendance for April was
4,037, an increase of 360 over
April, 1961. Accumulative at
tendance since July 10, 1950,
to May 1, 1962, is 463,355.
Guests registered from 33
states and Canada, Norway,
Sweden and Germany.
A total of 572 students and
their teachers from Hedrick
and McLoughlin Junior High
schools, from the eighth
grades of Eagle Point and
Kerby and the sixth grades
of Jackson school, Medford,
fourth grades from Gold Hill
and Tri-City, Douglas county,
and the third grades of Wil
son school, Medford, the
Walker school, Ashland, and
the Jacksonville and Kerby
schools, visited the museum.
Number of Students
Since the beginning of the
current school year in Septem
ber, 1,745 pupils have been
conducted through the mu
seum. Other groups visiting in
April were Bluebirds, Girl
Scout Troop 174, Medford,
members of the Oregon Gold
Star Mothers, and the Odd
Fellows Historical Trek, both
in convention in Medford, and
23 members of Alpha Zeta
Theta Rho, Roseburg.
Gifts and loans presented
during April were from M. A.
Kusler, Mrs. L. D. Inskegp,
Mrs. R. C. Housel, Bruce T3.
Martin, Herb Grey, Mrs.
Louise Isaacs, Henry H.
Prings and Sam Van Dyke,
all of Medford; Mrs. C. C.
Judges Discuss New Legislation
Proposed legislation clari
fying the statutes relating to
preliminary hearings was
discussed at a meeting of the
Oregon District Judges' asso
ciation in Eugene recently, ac
cording to District Court
Judge L. L. Sawyer.
Judge Hayes, Douglas coun
ty, commented on the propos
ed legislation. Judge Alder
son, Lane county, presented a
survey of court rules used by
the various district courts.
During the session a legis
lative committee was estab
lished with Judge Jenkins,
Washington county, appoint
ed chairman.
Judge Thalhofer, Deschutes
county, president of the asso
ciation, commented that the
efforts of the association's
study committee can result in
greater court efficiency and
can affect economies in the
operation of the various dis
trict courts.
Thompson, Central Point; G.
C. Nicewood, Jacksonville;
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kimmell
and Mrs. Larkin Grubb, Ash
land;, Milo Claughton, Camas
Valley; W. B. Garrett, Glen
dale, and V, G. Barnthouse,
Ashland.
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