MEUFOHD MAIL TMBllNE, MEDKOKD, OKEGON
MONDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1962
THIS
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Jeb Stuart Circles Federals
gggS WASTES!
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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-
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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.
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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.
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tam, the Army of the Poto-
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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.
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