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6 MONDAY. JUNE 4. 1962 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON COURT HELD o public service bv 1 he COLLEGE of LAW WILlAMETTE UNIVERSITY Editor's nolti This columr let to nrea.ni aeneral orin einlei of law. Ii ii not to be taken ai legal advice. Slight changes in iactt may change the outcome o! a caie. If you have a problem, see an at torney. John hired an airplane op orator to "crop-dust" h i ! crnns. that is. to spray cliemi' cals on them. Some of the tDrav drifted onto his neigh bar's land, damaging the neighbor's crops. THE COURT HELD: The neighbor may sue John for the damage to his crops. John knew that the chemical spray could drift onto his neighbor's land, and if he takes such risk he must also suffer the conse quences. Leo v. Lenhardt, 72 Oreg. Adv. Sheets 1011 (1981) CONCLUDES VISIT Seattle, Wash. UPI)- Prince Philip of Great Britain con cluded a two-day visit to Se attle Saturday and took off for Vancouver, B. C, at 2:14 cm. PDT. Piloting his person al airplane, a shocking pink four-engine Heron. SURPRISE MOVE Durham, N. C. -0IPN- The board of trustees of Duke university, in a surprise move Saturday, announced the im mpriintp HpKPSrnLtntion of all the institution's undergradu ate schools. ROTARY OPENS Los Angeles -(UPII- Rotary International opened its 33rd annual convention Sunday with more than 20,000 per sons from all 90 states and about 60 countries expected to be in attendance. fefe- TEE 1j2"pT3k1 , 'w mm , ittttt too LI J. V J.JJ VVilili ' A V tUNOVCI fit 1 Mil a at II mats SRK TSaSTAU'J 0 Am V $TMiai iTAUEYttlUt? INFORMATION WANTED In early June, 1882, Gen. Robert E. Lee called to his head quarters in Richmond, Va., the Army's 29-year-old cavalry leader, Brig. Gen. James Edwell Brown (Job) Stuart. Lee had to know how strongly the Union forces held the territory north of the Chickahominy river as they lay siege to the Confederate capital. To garner the information, Lee chose Stuart. On June 11, Stuart picked his troops: the 1st cavalry command by Fitz hugh Lee, the general's nephew, would lead. Four companies of the 4th Virginia were added. "Rooncy" Lee, the general's second son, would lead part of his 9th Virginia and the rest, of the 4th. The best of the Jeff Davis Legion and the South Carolina Boykin Rangers were also included. All told, the force would be 1,200 men. The expedition started on June 12, as the Con federates rode north from Richmond to Taylorsville. The next day the column turn ed cast to Hanover Court House. At the town there was a sharp clash and the Fed erals were swept out. Later the same day there was nothcr clash near Hawz's Shop. Still later there was a fight at Old Church, a crossroad point for Federal wagon trains. At this point, Stuart informed his officers that he proposed to "ride around" the Union Army. They had two choices: return the way they came and chance being cut off, or continue southward across the Chickahom iny river and then west along the James river to Richmond. The second choice would provide more information for General Lee and would surprise the Union forces. The expedition went on, and Stuart hit Tun stall's Station, scattering the Union guards. Stuart then considered attacking the White House but the danger appeared too great. The continued to Tallesville, and at dawn on June 14, the arrived at the Chickahom iny, They crossed at Fort Bridge and return ed to Richmond via the James river road. Stuart reported to Lee on June 15, with all the information needed, after having ridden all the way around the Union army. This map, especially researched and drawn for this scries shows the Stuart route. (UP1) Memphis Topples To Federals By MERTON T. AKERS UPI Correspondent The Civil War seemed to hang in the balance as sum mer broke in June, 1862. The big guns had fallen silent on the Virginia Penin sula after the battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks). Richmond, capital of the Confederacy, still was under siege by the Army of the Potomac. While all was quiet along the Chickahominy river and swamps where Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston had failed to crush r . isolated Federal corps at Seven Pines and had been carried off the field gravely wounded, the silence was temporary - ev eryone on each side knew that. There was no silence in the West. Corinth, Miss., an important railroad point, was abandon ed to Union forces on May 30. Forts Pillow and Randolph on the Mississippi river guard ing Memphis, Tenn., also were abandoned by the Confeder ates on June 4. Sharp Battle Memphis itself, the most important commercial city on the river between St. Louis and New Orleans, was occu pied by Federal forces on June 6 after a sharp gunboat battle. A couple of decisive Union victories - one on the Penin sula, another In the West -might decide the war, now a little more than a year old. Chances for the victories seemed good, decept'vely so, it turned out. Corinth was abandoned on the night of May 29-30. Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard marched his Rebel army out of the key city and left it to the Fed erals under Maj. Gen. Henry W. Hallcck. Halleck had taken person al command of the Union army in the west after the battle of Shiloh. He relegated Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to deputy commander, a job that was mostly title. He re inforced the army until it numbered about 110,000 men. Then he set out after Beaure gard, who had withdrawn the Rebel army after Shiloh to Corinth. Corinth was about 20 miles from Shiloh. It took HaJJack nearly a month to march the army that distance. Evacuating Lee, who had never yet risked a single battle with the invader, is commanding general." Men Set To Work Lee paid ilttle mind to the critics and set his men to work fortifying the lines. Beauregard had fortified Corinth but soon it became obvious that he could not hold it. The rebel retirement was skillful and preceded by elab orate false alarms which con vinced the Federals, by that time within cannon shot of the city, that the South was receiving reinforcements. Lo comotives puffed back and forth while a cheering squad regularly set up a chorus as if welcoming fresh troops. The strategy worked so well that Maj. Gen. John Pope in the front lines noti fied Halleck at 1:20 a.m. on May 30 that he expected an attack a dawn. Instead his troops marched unmolested into Corinth - deserted by army and civilians, too - in the early morning. Pursuit Feeble Halleck might have expect ed to pursue Beauregard with everythnig he had. But Hal leck was not one to press his luck. Pursuit was feeble. And he had to break up his big army for garrison duty in oc cupied territory. Grant, who tagged along becoming more and more de pressed, asked for and receiv ed 30 days' leave. He was ready to quit the army, again. Maj. Gen. William T. Sher man heard about his friend's decision and rode over to see him. "I found him," Sherman wrote later, "seated on a camp-stool, with papers on a rude camp-table; he seemed to be employed in sorting let ters and tying them up with red tape into convenient bun dles. ... I inquired if it were true that he was going away. He said 'yes.' I then inquired the reason and he said: " 'Sherman, you know. You know that I am in the way here. I have stood it as long as I can, and can endure it no longer.' I inquired where he was going to, and he said, 'St. Louis.' I then asked him if he had any business there, and he said, 'Not a bit.' I begged him to stay, illustrating his case by my own. "Before the battle of Shi- Crater FFA Ties In Judging Contest loh, I had been cast down by a mom nAUrenanr aucartinn . u..I'.u . : , u . 1 Central Point The Crater m , uui uu aii.sie ui- ruture Farmers of America tie had given me new life and now I was in high feath er; and I argued with him that, if he went away, events would go right along and he would be left out; whereas if he remained some happy incident might restore him to favor and his true place." Grant decided to remain. The "happy accident" came the next month when Hal leck was called to Washing ton to become chief of staff of the Union armies. Abandonment of Corinth left the two forts guarding Memphis outflanked. Fort Pillow, about 40 miles up the Mississippi from Memphis, and Fort Randolph, about 15 miles below Pillow, were giv en up by the Confederates on June 4. Only eight small gunboats mounting 28 light cannon now were between Memphis and the Federals. At dawn or June 6 the Fed eral fleet appeared upstream from Memphis. It consisted of five ironclad gunboats mount ing 68 heavy cannon and three Ellet rams, a new weap on in river warfare. The rams were the brain child of Charles Ellet Jr., an elderly civil engineer who early In 1862 had interested the War Department in his theory that a fast boat could ram effectively in narrow rivers. Engines Braced He bought t h e fastest steamboats available, beefed up their engines to make 15 knots, fortified their bows with timbers and installed three bulkheads the length of the vessels. The engines were I braced to stand the shock of ramming. Ellet sent his rams knifing i between the Federal Ironclads j and bore down on the Rebel : gunboats. Between the rams and the Federal gunboats, seven of the eight Rebel vessels were sunk or beached. One, the "Van Dorn," escaped down river. In an hour and 10 minutes it was over. Now Vicksburg was the i only stronghold which cut Federal domination of the river for its entire length. Anaconda - the big border squeeze - was working. soil judging team of Bruno Meye, Steve Hall and Bob Butcher tied for first place at the district soil judging con test at Eagle Point high school recently. The contest consisted of judging three different sites and evaluating the sites cm 26 different points which are con sidered important. Two points are given for each correct an swer, and the team receiving the highest total score for all three members on all three sites won the contest. Steve Hall scored a total of 96 points on all three sites. Bruno Meyer received a total of 90, and Bob Butcher tied for the top score of 104 wall Leonard Hansen from Eagle Point. Stop Bad Breath Sweetens Ntutti-Stgroich 3 Tines Fetter Chtw Brll.ans tablets whenever you Ihink your breath may offend. Bell.anl neutralize acidity, sweeten mouth and stomach like magic. No harmful drugs. 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