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MEUFOHD MAIL TMBllNE, MEDKOKD, OKEGON MONDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1962 THIS IVIL Jeb Stuart Circles Federals gggS WASTES! WABl By MERTON T. AKERS UPI Correspondent The bloom of the Confed eracy's brightest s m m e r wore ofi with the coming of autumn in 1862. The invasion of Maryland by Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had been turned back in mid September at Antietam Creek (Sharpsburg). Gen. Braxton Bragg's ex pedition into Kentucky also had splintered at the drawn battle of Perryville, Ky., early in October. By the end of October Lee was recuperating his army in the Shenandoah Valley around Winchester, Va. His troops still were eating the supplies he had captured in Maryland but thousands of his men had worn out their shoes on Maryland's hard roads. No replacements were in sight. The footwear shortage was dramatized i n Richmond. Bar e f o o t e d Confederates marched through an early snowfall in the capital. The sight moved Richmond resi dents to chip in and send 10, 000 pairs of shoes to Lee's army. A committee of indig nant citizens forced Confeder ate quatermasters to impress blankets and winter clothing from profiteers' warehouses bulging with supplies being held for higher prices. Troubles Unsolved These impromptu efforts helped but failed to rolve Lee's supply troubles. Word in Richmond was that the army would have to go on half rations by the first of the year, although Virginia's 1862 wheat crop had been bountiful. Winter gloom was setting in despite the summer of victories. " The Davis administration in Richmond could tick off the victories. - The Seven Days' battles on the Peninsula when the Union army was turned back in sight of the Richmond church spires. - Second Manassas (Bull Run) when Maj. Gen. John Pope's force was routed by Lee and Stonewall Jackson and Washington threatened. - The battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) considered only a setback, not a defeat. The Union army had been out maneuvered and failed to de- J.'V V1 - V $ Csv . i V 3 - . " Z: i STUART RETURNS On Oct. 12, 1862, Confederate Gen J.E.B. Stuart returned to Leesburg, Va., after having ridden around the Union force for the second time. Stuart started north on Oct. 9 with 1,800 picked men. His objective was to round up horses for his cavalry and artillery. His ride took him into Pennsylvania and Maryland and netted him 1,200 fresh horses. In three days his forces had gone 90 miles, circled the Union forces and outsmarted Federal attempts to catch up. This lithograph, from the Library of Congress collection, shows Stuart as he looked in his prime, (UPI) Republicans Gain Ground in One Oregon District Salem -IUPD- The Democrats made further inroads in voter registration in three of Ore gon's four congressional dis tricts for this November. But the Republicans gained ground in one district. Figures from the secretary of state's office show the Democrats with healthy mar gins in the third and fourth districts Multnomah county, and Southwest Oregon. In the third district the Democrats enlarged their lead of 41,988 in November, 1960, to 42,477. In the fourth district they advanced from 24.239 in 1960 to 25.510 this year. In the first district of North west Oregon the Republicans continued to have the edge, but the Democrats cut anoth er 1,500 registrations depper in the past two years. The GOP leads in 1960 was 5007, and now it is only 3,567. Six years ago, the GOP had a com fortable 11,000 registration advantage. The Democrats still have more registrations in the sec ond district of Eastern Ore gon, but the Republicans re versed the trend this year. The Democratic edge in 1960 was 14.602 and this year it is 13,820 a loss of nearly 1, 000 for the Democrats. By district, the figures for next month's election are: 1st D 127,030; R 130,597. 2nd D 66,366; R 52,546. 3rd D 159,014; R 116,567. 4th D 121,151; R 95,641. M Ik .' ELECT CHARLES CRARY STATE REPRESENTATIVE Pd. Pol. Adv., Crary foi St. Rep Comm., Jerry Scannell, Chmn., 310 Holly, Ashland, Ore. liver the punch necessary for a resounding victory. But after all the victories were added up the result was tiissappointing. The Union armies were still intact and even stronger than when the summer campaigns had start ed. No Union territory was occupied. Hopes Kopl Up" The developments on the foreign front kept up Confed erate hopes. The New York Express published a news story that Britain, with French support, i would demand an armistice in the war, and if the North refused,- recognize the Con federacy. The other development was a speech made Oct. 7 at New castle, England, by William i Gladstone, chancellor of the exchequer and later prime minister of Britain. Among l other things, he said: I "Jefferson Davis and other j leaders of the South have I made an army: they are ; making, it appears, a navy: and they have made what is more than either, they have made a nation." I Coming from a member of ' a government known to be ' pro - Confederate, the speech : was interpreted to be a fore runner to recognition, f To those two buoys (he I Confederates moored high hopes of victory. After the battle of Antie tam, the Army of the Poto- II fill 9trg-. T'A "till I He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are stUU PSALM 107:2S PERL ( FUNERAL HOME g. CORNER SIXTH AND OAKDALE Spacious Parking lot M 'f promptly rt pond to ceZs, day or niflil. MEMBER BY INVITATION (LiV (Oxhtr ol dlit olbcn Suit &ln3iilcriuduialCr!filiaiion of rDcpcnAalU OuncndfLinclort mac remained in Maryland more than a month, its com mander, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, seemingly imper vious against suggestions to pursue the Rebels. Moves Into Virginia Finally on Oct. 26 McClel lan. nearly three weeks after a direct order from President Lincoln to "cross the Poto mac and give battle to the enemy or drive him South while the roads are good" moved leisurely into Virginia and posted his army around Harper's Ferry. McClellen's march not only was slow, it also was catious to a point which Lincoln con sidered timid. One reason for McClellan's caution may have been the realization that his cavalry was inadequate, over worked and intimidated by another of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart's spectacular raids. Stuart started north on Oct. 9 with 1,800 picked men and four guns under the com mand of his young artillerist, John Pclham. His objective was to round up horses for his cavalry and artillery. Group Takes Horses As soon as the gray troop ers crossed into Pennsylvania, the center group fanned out and began taking horses. Col. W. W. Blackford, one of Stuart's aides, described how it was done: "Riding up to the barn a rap on the entrance with a sabre hilt would bring the surprised owner to the door. Sometimes our presence would be accounted for by claiming to be U. S. soldiers pressing horses The 1 horses were all hitched i p to the (threshing) machines; so we brought off harness and all, which was no doubt very convenient to our bat teries, as no collars we had would have fitted these huge, bull-necked animals. (Many of the horses owned by the Pennsylvania Dutch farmers were Conestogas, strictly draft animals.) "... After getting the horses the pantry was in spected; where there was such an abundance the men be came choice and would only take freshly baked bread . . The returning party would present a vista of roasted turkeys, hams and rounds of beef . . . brown rolls . . . crocks of cream and rolls of butter ..." The Confederates reached Chambersburg, Pa., on the evening of Oct. 10. A Northern historian, Sam- Economic Adviser Cautious About '63 Hot Springs, Va. -lUPIl-Wal-ter W. Heller, chief economic adviser to President Kennedy, said Saturday the early months of 1963 will be a "test ing time" for business. The economy could slide into a mild recession, he said, or it may continue to expand. Heller gave this cautious appraisal of the business out look to some 175 leading cor poration executives gathered at a swanky resort here for the autumn meeting of the Business Council. Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower was to address the closing banquet last night. Heller's equivocal forecast was significant in one respect: it was the least optimistic assessment of the business out look he has made since be coming chairman of the Presi dent's council of economic ad visers 21 months ago. BALLOON RUPTURES White Sands Missile Range, N.M. - IUPD - A huge helium filled space balloon soared high over louthern New Mex ico Saturday, then ruptured prematurely in a test of its ability to reflect radio sig nals. ' uel H. Schumucker, writing in 1865 when memories of the raid still were fresh, de scribedwhat happened after the town jigreed to surrender on conditions persons and property were to be respect ed: "Each soldier led one or two horses, which he had already stolen. They distrib uted themselves up and down the streets and lanes, break ing open the stables, and taking from them all the good horses they could find . . . They entered several stores, and plundered them of clothing ... In such enter prising activity they spent the night. "On the following morn ing at nine o'clock they fired the machine shops and ware houses of the Valley railroad .... They had entered a bank but the funds previously had been removed, so that they were disappointed in regard to the acquisition of money. Turned South From Chambcrsburg Stuart started cast towards Gettys burg to mislead pursuit and then turned south. All that day, all night and until 4 p.m. the next day, his cavalry leading 1,200 fresh horses, rode south and cross ed the Potomac to Leesburg. Va., on Oct. 12, a march of 90 miles with only one halt. Only in the last 12 miles in Maryland did Federal forces begin to catch up but their efforts were feeble and late. Stuart had ridden around McClellan's army again as he had done a few months before on the Peninsula. Carefree Living Now . . . Relaxed Security in the yean ahead, with a dependable insurance program to spur your confidence. Call me today and let's plan to gether for your peace of mind. Phont 773-6359 319 Eerhart Street-Medford Representing ! WOODMEN ACCIDENT I AND LIFE COMPANY Gordon S. Johnson fffUJfi.&Jf J".:-.'-? 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