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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Feb 17, 1862

Page

2

Novel French Lectures At Mr Ladreyt's Rooms In Newburyport

The notice highlights a Tuesday sale of British goods by Haccerry & Co in New York and promotes French spoken lectures by Tur at Mr Ladreyt's rooms three times weekly. It praises the novelty, variety, and wide audience, calling the entertainments pleasant and profitable. The Newburyport Herald adds Civil War dispatches about Fort Donelson and Union advances with gunboats damaged and prisoners taken.

Cambridge Street John H. Pray Comer Commercial College New York Haccerry & Co New Orleans Calhoun Havana Smith O’brien Lucius O’brien Inchiquin Woronzow Greig O’brien Court of Chancery Dickens Jarndyce Ts Lapotecae 59Th New York Regiment wwrTwelve Gueliermo Gavani B. E. Cotting

Attack on Fort Donelson by Union ironclads

Flag Officer Foote reports a February 15 1862 naval assault near Fort Donelson with four ironclad and two wooden gunboats. The action caused heavy damage, with 54 killed and wounded, two gunboats rendered helpless, and repairs planned at Cairo. Foote sent Tyler to the Tennessee River to disrupt the railroad bridge.

Caicaco Tribune Cumberland River Fort Donelson Taylor Louisville Tyler Pittsburg St. Louis Fort Henry Washington Navy Department Offer Foote U. S. Flac Sair Papoucan Gipron Wetxes Fortress Monroe Fes Craney Island Norfolk Roanoke Island Wise Burnett Richmond Blues O. J. Wise Robert Coles W. B. Seldon

Price in Retreat Near Springfield Missour

Gen Curtis forces move from Lebanon toward Springfield and drive in Confederate pickets. Price loots 12,000 troops and 50 guns, withdraws with 100 wagon train captured and large forage wagons left behind. Locals cheer Union arrival, predicting end of Missouri campaign.

Price Springfield St. Louis Democrat Curtis Lebanon Jeff. C. Davis Carr Siegel 4Th Iown Regiment McIntosh Mhje Missouri

Manassas evacuation reportedly imminent in Washington dispatch

The Times dispatch claims military leaders expect Manassas to be evacuated. A rebel message allegedly proposes foreign arbitration, while the government aims a quicker end to the rebellion. Russell of the London Times was surprised to learn Secretary Stanton was unavailable to meet. The Herald reports War Department clerks have been dismissed and barred from the building.

Fitz Brookline Mass Slidell Hotel du Rhin Paris Eustis Mason Yancey London King Bell Gibraltar Cadiz Great Britain Spain Mediterranean Europe Mexico Mounsey Sunderland Wales Russell Rhode Island Burnside Philadelphia American Baltimore Fort Donélson Stanton War Department War Cement Washington Erastus Corning N. L. Wilson Epward Stanton New York Times Special Washington Dispatch Manassas London Times Herald Department St. Louis United States Halleck N. H. McClean Ass’t Adj B. Hamilton Steele Cumberland River

Fort Donelson Siege Details From Latest Dispatch

A Fort Donelson report describes severe freezing weather and a Confederate fort’s strong outer works on a high ridge. Union forces, led by Gen Oglesby, encircle the fort and shell Taylor’s battery. naval actions involve the gunboats Tyler Conestoga Louis ville and Carondelet with Foote slightly wounded.

St. Louis Democrat Fort Donelson Cumberland Oglesby Taylor 20Th Illinois Tyler Fort Henry Foote Pittsburg Louisville Carondelet

Rebels Repelled at Fort Valliant and Battery Fallen

A Civil War dispatch reports Captain Wise of the Minnagheha leading a sortie from the fort at 10 AM, driving Union forces back and capturing Schwartz's Battery. At 1 PM Union troops retook the Battery and planted their flag on the rebels outer works. Evansville steamer reports four colonels killed, including Col. John Logan of Illinois.

Caro Fes St. Louis Democrat Wise Minnagheha Schwartz Evansville Col John Logan Ilinois

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