29. Eighteen guerrillas captured 12 miles S. E. of Memphis, Tenn.
29. Skirmish near Manchester, Tenn. 18th Ohio, Capt. Miller, defeated rebel cavalry with loss.
29. Skirmish at Bonnet Carré, La. 8th Vt., Col. Thomas, defeated guerrillas and captured army stores.
29–30. Battles at Richmond, Ky. Feds. under Gens. Manson and Cruft compelled to retreat before rebs. under Gen. E. Kirby Smith, after losing 200 killed, 700 wounded and 2,000 prisoners.
30. Fight at Bolivar, Tenn. 78th Ohio, Col. Leggett, routed a superior force of rebs. under Gen. Armstrong. Fed. loss, 5 killed, 18 wounded, 64 missing.
30. Buckhannon, Va., captured by rebs., and Government military stores seized.
30. Fight at M’Minnville, Tenn. 26th Ohio, Col. Fyffe, defeated Gen. Forrest’s rebel cavalry.
30. Gen. Pope’s forces, consisting of the corps of Gen. Heintzelman, Porter, M’Dowell and Banks, engaged Lee’s army at the old battle ground of Bull Run, Va. After severe loss the Federals fell back to Centreville, where they were supported by Sumner’s and Franklin’s corps.
31. Fredericksburg, Va., evacuated by Gen. Burnside. The three bridges, foundry and military storehouses burned.
31. Huntsville, Ala., evacuated by Gen. Buell.
31. Great excitement in the north, on hearing of the disaster to Gen. Pope’s army. Immense quantities of hospital and other stores, contributed and forwarded this day.
31. Skirmish at Medor Station on Mississippi Central R.R., Tenn. Armstrong’s reb. cavalry attacked the place, but were driven off with loss.
31. Stevenson, Ala., captured by rebel troops under Col. McKinstry, and a large amount of ammunition and stores seized.
31. Reb. steamer Emma, with 740 bales of cotton, grounded and burned on the Savannah river.
31. Bayou Sara, La., burned by the crew of U. S. gunboat Essex.
Sep. 1.Battle at Britton’s Lane, near Denmark, Tenn. 30th Illinois, Col. Dennis, defeated a superior force of rebs. under Gen. Armstrong. Reb. loss, 180 killed, 220 wounded. Fed. loss, 200 killed and wounded.
1. Lexington, Ky., occupied by Gen. E. K. Smith’s rebel troops.
1. Natchez, Miss., shelled by Federal gunboats.
1. Severe fight at Stevenson, Ala.Rebs. retire with great loss. Feds. engaged: Simonton’s Ohio, and Loomis’ Mich. batteries, and 10th Wis. and 13th Mich. regiments.
1. Severe engagement at Chantilly, near Fairfax C. H., Va. Gen. Pope’s army defeated Jackson, Ewell, and Hill. Heavy loss on both sides. Death of Gens. Kearney and Stevens.
1. The spirit ration in the U. S. navy discontinued on this day by act of Congress.
2. Great excitement in Cincinnati, O., and Covington and Newport, Ky., in consequence of the approach of Kirby Smith’s reb. army. Business suspended, and citizens of all classes in the field drilling.
2. A train of 100 wagons, with army stores, captured by rebs. between Fairfax and Centreville, Va., which necessitated the retreat of the Union army to Munson’s Hill.
2. Versailles, Ky., occupied by rebel cavalry under Gen. Scott.
2. Fight at Morgansfield, Ky. 8th Ky. cavalry, Col. Shackleford, defeated guerrillas under Col. A. R. Johnson.
2. Fight near Plymouth, N. C. A party of loyal inhabitants led by Serg’t Green, of Hawkins’ Zouaves, and some of his men defeated Col. Garret’s rebel force, who lost 30 killed and 40 taken prisoners.
2. Hutchinson and Forest City, Minn., attacked by hostile Indians, who were defeated at both places.
2. Winchester, Va., evacuated by Gen. Pope’s army, who retreated to Harper’s Ferry.
2. The U. S. steamer W. B. Terry captured by rebs. on the Tenn. river, while aground at Duck Shoals.
2. Skirmish near Slaughterville, Ky. Fed. troops, under Lieut.-Col. Foster, defeated reb. cavalry, the latter losing 3 killed, 2 wounded and 25 prisoners.
2. Fight near Grieger’s Lake, Ky. Col. Shackelford’s Fed. troops defeated Col. Johnson with 600 rebels.
3. Gen. Pope asked to be relieved from command of the army of the Potomac, and was transferred to the Northwest.
4. Gov. Curtin, of Pa., called out the whole of the State militia to repel an expected invasion.
4. Fed. troops, near Fort Ridgely, Minn., attacked by Indians, 13 soldiers killed and 47 wounded.
4. The Confed. army crossed the Potomac near Poolesville, Md., and invaded that State.
4. Maj. Wheeler with a detachment of Dodge’s N. Y. Mounted Rifles, returned to Suffolk, Va., from a scout 12 miles west of South Mills, where they captured 113 rebs. and 38 negroes, who were prisoners.
4. Three bridges burnt by rebels on Benson Creek, 60 miles east of Louisville, Ky.
4. Jeff. Davis appointed the 18th inst. as a day of thanksgiving for Confederate victories.
4. Skirmish near Cumberland Gap, Tenn., in which rebs. were defeated with loss.
4. Frederick City, Md., evacuated by Feds. after burning hospital and commissary stores.
4. Joseph Holt, of Ky., appointed Judge Advocate General of the U. S. army.
4. Ravenswood, Va., sacked by rebels.
4. The ship Ocmulgee burned at sea by rebel privateer “290.”
5. The Fed. army under M’Clellan had advanced from the Capital to the upper Potomac, Md. side.
6. Washington, N. C., attacked by rebs., who were repulsed with loss of 33 killed and 100 wounded. Fed. loss 8 killed, 36 wounded.
6. Col. W. W. Lowe retook Clarksville, Tenn., driving out the reb. garrison.
6. The town of Platte, Johnson Co., Kansas, was sacked by rebel guerrillas, under Quantrell, and several of the inhabitants murdered.
6. Skirmish near Cacapon Bridge, 17 miles from Winchester, Va. Union troops under Col. M’Reynolds defeated Imboden’s rebel cavalry.
6. Four hundred reb. cavalry attacked an outpost of Gen. Julius White’s troops near Martinsburg, Va. Reb. loss 50 prisoners, besides killed and wounded. Fed. loss, 2 killed and 10 wounded.
6. Frederick, Md., occupied by Gen. Lee’s troops.
6. Three hundred Indians attacked Fort Abercrombie, Minn., and were driven off with loss. Fed. loss, 1 killed and 3 wounded.
6. Washington, N. C., attacked by rebs., who were repulsed with a loss of 30 killed and 36 taken prisoners. The Fed. gunboat Picket exploded her magazine during the engagement, killing and wounding 18 men.
6. Forty of the Fed. 4th Va., Maj. Hall, surprised near Chapmansville, Va., by 300 rebs. under Col. Stratton. Maj. Hall wounded, and Col. Stratton killed, when Feds. escape with slight loss.
Sept. 6.Pikeville, Va., captured and sacked by rebel cavalry.
7. Gen. Banks assigned to command fortifications around Washington.
7. Great excitement on the Pa. border towns by the influx of refugees from Maryland, and the dread of reb. invasion.
7. Shepherdsville, Ky., captured, and 85 Fed. soldiers taken prisoners.
8. Gens. Lee and Johnson issued proclamations to the people of Md., endeavoring to incite them to rebellion. The inhabitants received them coldly.
8. Skirmish near Poolesville, Md. Maj. Chapman, with 3d Ind. and 8th Ill. cavalry, defeated rebels, who lost 7 killed. Federal loss 1 killed, 8 wounded.
8. Fight on the Miss. river, 25 miles above N. Orleans. 25th Ind. dispersed 500 Texans, with slight loss.
9. Schr. Rambler captured by U. S. steamer Connecticut, in lat. 28°, long. 94° 10′.
9. Skirmish 5 miles N. of Pleasant Hill, Mo. Col. Burris defeated Quantrell’s reb. troops, with slight loss, capturing most of their plunder and stores.
9. Middletown, Md., occupied by rebs.
9. Skirmish at Williamsburg, Va. Rebs. under Col. Shingles surprise 5th Pa. cavalry, Col. Campbell, and capture the town. Col. Campbell, 5 captains, 4 lieutenants, and a few privates taken prisoners. Col. Shingles and 8 rebs. killed.
9. Gen. Stuart’s reb. cavalry repulsed in an attempt to cross the Potomac at Edward’s Ferry, with a loss of 90 men, by Gen. Keyes.
9. Gen. O. M. Mitchell appointed to command the Department of the South, relieving Gen. Hunter.
9. The Fed. garrison at Fayette C. H., Va., surrounded by a large rebel force. They cut their way out, losing 100 in killed and wounded.
10. Col. Grierson with 300 men defeated rebs. near Coldwater, Miss. Reb. loss, 4 killed and 30 wounded.
10. The 34th and 37th Ohio, Col. Siber, were defeated at Fayette, Va., by 5,000 rebs. under Gen. Loring. Fed. loss over 100 in killed and wounded.
10. 6th U. S. cavalry, under Captain Saunders, defeated at Sugar Loaf Mountain, near Barnesville, Md., with slight loss.
11. Hagerstown, Md., occupied by rebs. who seized 1200 bbls. of flour.
11. The Gov. of Pa. called for 50,000 men to repel rebel invasion.
11. Westminster, Md., occupied by reb. cavalry, who robbed all the stores in the place.
11. Fed. forces under Col. Lightburn retreated from Gauley, Va., after destroying government stores.
11. Reb. troops under E. K. Smith, advanced within 7 miles of Cincinnati, O., and skirmished with the Fed. pickets.
11. Bloomfield, Mo., defended by 1,500 State militia, captured by rebs. after a fight of 2 hours.
12. The reb. army retreated from before Cincinnati, pursued by Gen. Wallace as far as Florence, Ky.
12. Gen. McClellan’s army entered Frederick, Md.
12. Fight on the Elk river, near Charleston, Va., by Feds. under Col. Lightburn, and a reb. force, without result.
12. Capt. Harry Gilmore, and 7 other rebs. arrested near Baltimore, Md., and sent to Fort McHenry.
12. Frankfort, Ky., occupied by rebel cavalry, under Gen. E. K. Smith.
12. Fight at Middletown, Md. Fed. loss, 80 killed and wounded.
13. 500 rebs. under Col. Porter, released 40 reb. prisoners at Palmyra, Mo.
14. A fort at Bacon creek, Ky., with 30 men of the 54th Ind., captured by rebs. under Col. J. J. Morrison.
14. Battle of South Mountain, Md. Fed. troops under Gens. Hooker and Reno, defeated Lee’s army. Fed. loss 443 killed, 1,806 wounded and 76 missing. Gen. Reno killed.
14. Fight at Munfordsville, Ky. 17th Ind., Col. Wilder, defeated rebs., under Gen. Duncan, with severe loss.
14. 2,000 Fed. cavalry, cut their way out of Harper’s Ferry, Va., which was besieged by rebs., and captured Gen. Longstreet’s train and 100 prisoners.
15. Surrender of Harper’s Ferry, Va., with a large supply of military stores, and 11,000 men to the rebs. after 3 days’ siege. Col. Miles, the Fed. commander, killed.
15. Col. M’Neill defeated reb. guerrillas under Col. Porter, near Shelburne, Mo., taking 20 wagons and other spoils, with slight loss.
15. Fight at Green river, Ky., on the line of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. Rebs. defeated.
16. Capture of the Fed. garrison at Munfordsville, Ky., under Col. Dunham, 4,000 strong, with 10 pieces of artillery, by rebs. under Gen. Bragg. 50 Feds. killed and wounded.
17. Fight near Durhamville, Tenn. 150 of 52nd Ind., Lt. R. Griflin, defeatedrebs. under Lieut.-Col. Faulkner. Reb. loss, 8 killed and 20 wounded. Fed. loss, 2 killed and 10 wounded.
17. Fight at Falmouth, on Kentucky Central R. R. Col. Berry with 10 men defeated a larger force of Texan rangers, of whom 2 were killed, 4 wounded and 1 prisoner. 1 Fed. wounded.
17. Ship Virginia, of Mass., burned by Alabama, Capt. Semmes.
17. Skirmish near Florence, Ky. 53 of 10th Ky. cavalry, Maj. Foley, defeated 100 rebs., who lost 5 killed and 7 wounded. Fed. loss, 1 killed and 1 wounded.
17. Battle of Antietam, Md. The entire Fed. army of Gen. McClellan, and reb. army of Gen. Lee engaged. Defeat of rebs. with loss of 15,000 men. Fed. loss, 12,500.
17. Fight at Leesburg, Va. The Ira Harris cavalry, Col. Kilpatrick, defeated a reb. infantry regiment, capturing several guns and a number of prisoners.
17. The U. S. gunboats Paul Jones, Cimerone, and 3 other vessels attacked reb. batteries on St. John’s river, Florida.
17. Cumberland Gap, Tenn., evacuated by Gen. Morgan’s Fed. troops.
18. Ship Elisha Dunbar, of Mass., burned by the Alabama.
18. Rebs. evacuated Harper’s Ferry, Va.
19. Gen. Lee’s army crossed the Potomac river to Va., pursued by Gen. Pleasanton’s cavalry.
19–20. Battle of Iuka, Miss. General Rosecrans’ army defeated rebs., who lost 233 killed, 400 wounded, and 600 prisoners. Fed. loss, 135 killed, and 527 wounded.
19–20. Skirmishes at Owensboro’, Ky. Fed. Col. Netter killed. 1st Ind. cavalry, Lieut.-Col. Wood, routed rebs. with severe loss. Fed. loss, 2 killed, 18 wounded.
20. Fight near Shirley’s Ford, Spring river, Mo. 3rd Ind., Col. Ritchie, defeated 600 rebs. and Indians, who lost 60 or 70 killed and wounded.
21. Col. Barnes, with a Fed. cavalry brigade, defeated in an attempt to cross the Potomac from Md., losing 150 men, in killed, wounded and prisoners.
21. The town of Prentiss, Miss., burned by Col. Lippincott of the ram Queen of the West, in retaliation for reb. batteries there firing on transports.
21. Skirmish at Munfordsville, Ky. Reb. cavalry defeated with loss by Feds. under Col. E. McCook.
21. 100 reb. troops routed at Cassville, Mo., by part of 1st Ark. cavalry, Captain Gilstray, who captured 19 rebs.
21. Citizens of San Francisco, Cal. contributed $100,000 in gold to the U. S. Sanitary Commission.
21. Rebs. defeated at Shepherdsville, Ky., by Feds. under Col. Granger. Reb. loss 5 killed and 28 prisoners.
22. Skirmish near Sturgeon, Mo. Rebs. under Capt. Cunningham defeated by Maj. Hunt’s force.
22. Fight at Ashby’s Gap, Va. Col. R. B. Price with 2d Pa. cavalry, defeated rebs. under Lieut.-Col. Green, capturing the latter officer and 2 lieuts.
22. Pres. Lincoln proclaimed, that on the 1st day of Jan. 1863 “all slaves in States or parts of States in rebellion” should be forever free.
23. Col. Sibley defeated a band of 300 Sioux Indians who attacked his encampment on Yellow Medicine river, Minn. 30 Indians killed and many wounded. 4 whites killed and 30 wounded.
23. Fight at Sutton, Va. Maj. Withers, with 10th Va., (Fed.) driven from Sutton to Bulltown, after a gallant resistance.
23. A large quantity of English arms captured at Reynolds’ Ford, Va., by 62d Pa., Col. Switzer.
23. Randolph, Tenn., on the Miss. river, burned by steamers Ohio Belle and Eugene, in retaliation for firing on transports from that place.
24. Proclamation of Pres. Lincoln ordering the enforcement of martial law, against all persons discouraging enlistments or giving aid to the rebellion, and suspending the habeas corpus with reference to all persons arrested by military authority.
24. The office of the “American Volunteer,” at Carlisle, Pa. was destroyed by citizens and soldiers for severe reflections on the Government.
24. A Convention of Governors from 14 loyal States, and 3 proxies from others met at Altoona, Pa., who endorsed the Emancipation Proclamation, and advised the Pres. to organize a reserve force of 100,000 men.
24. Gen. Beauregard appointed to command reb. forces in S. C. and Georgia.
24. Gen. Butler at New Orleans, ordered all Americans in his Department to renew their oath of allegiance to the Government, and to furnish returns of their real and personal property, under penalty of fine and imprisonment.
25. Sabine Pass, Texas, captured by U. S. steamers Kensington, and Henry Crocker, and schr. Rachel Seaman.
26. Skirmish near Warrenton Junction, Va. Reb. cavalry defeated by Col.McClean’s troops, who captured rebel commissary stores.
Sept. 26.An unsuccessful attempt to capture steamer Forest Queen at Ashport, Tenn., by rebs. under Capt. Faulkner.
26. Prentiss, Miss., burned by U. S. ram Queen of the West, in retaliation for firing on that vessel and transports.
27. 34th Ohio, Col. Toland, attacked Col. Jenkins’s reb. cavalry at Buffalo, on the Kanawha river, Va., but were driven off, after killing 7, capturing 9, and destroying the camp, without loss to themselves.
27. Home Guards at Augusta, Ky., captured by rebs. under Basil Duke, after a brave resistance, with loss to the enemy.
27. 91 women and children rescued from Indians by Col. Sibley on Chippeway river, Minn.; 16 Indians captured.
28. Reb. steamer Sunbeam captured by U. S. gunboats State of Georgia and Mystic, off Wilmington, N. C.
28. Skirmish on Blackwater river, 25 miles from Suffolk, Va. Col. C. C. Dodge, with Fed. cavalry and artillery, defeated reb. infantry.
28. Augusta, Georgia, captured by 600 reb. cavalry.
29. Gen. Jeff. C. Davis shot Gen. Wm. Nelson, at the Galt House, in Louisville, Ky., killing him almost instantly.
29. A brigade of Fed. cavalry, under Lieut.-Col. Karge, on a reconnoissance from Centreville, Va., to Warrenton, captured and paroled 1,650 rebels.
29. Brig.-Gen. Rodman died near Hagerstown, Md., of a wound received at the battle of Antietam.
29. A spirited cavalry skirmish near Sharpsburgh, Md. Rebs. dispersed, and a squad of them captured.
29. 363 disloyal citizens of Carroll Co., Mo., were assessed by the Federal authorities in aid of loyal citizens and soldiers who had been robbed in that Co.
30. Fight at Newtonia, Mo. A Fed. brigade under Gen. Salomon, attacked a body of rebs. under Col. Cooper, and were defeated by them, losing 50 in killed and wounded, and 100 prisoners.
30. Reb. bomb-proof magazines at Lower Shipping Point, Va., destroyed by sailors under Lieut.-Com. M’Graw.
30. Fight at Russelville, Ky. 17th Ky., Col. Harrison, defeated 350 rebs., who lost 35 killed, and 10 prisoners.
30. Grayson, Ky., occupied by rebel troops.
30. Salt works at Bluffton, S. C., destroyed by 48th N. Y., Col. Barton.
Oct. 1.The U. S. gunboat fleet on the western waters turned over from the War to the Navy Department.
1. Fight on Floyd’s Fork, Ky. A Fed. brigade under Col. E. N. Kirk, encountered and overcame a rebel force after a slight engagement.
1. Shelbyville, Ky., evacuated by the rebels.
1. Fight near Gallatin, Tenn. 1st Tenn. cavalry, Col. Stokes, defeated rebs. under Col. Bennett, who lost 40 killed, many wounded, and 39 prisoners.
1. 9 National pickets dispersed some rebs. at Newbern, N. C.
1. Gen. Pleasanton’s cavalry engaged reb. forces under Gen. Hampton at Martinsburg and at Shepherdstown, Va. Reb. loss 60 killed and wounded, and 9 prisoners. Fed. loss 12 wounded and 3 prisoners.
2. Fight near Olive Hill, Ky. Carter Co. Home Guards repulsed a portion of reb. Gen. Morgan’s command. Morgan retreated to the Licking river, destroying 35 houses on his route.
2. Gen. Foster’s Union troops accompanied by gunboats, left Washington, N. C., taking possession of Hamilton, and driving the rebels towards Tarboro’.
2. Skirmishing near Mount Washington, Ky., on the Bardstown turnpike, by Gen. Buell’s army and rebels under Gen. E. Kirby Smith.
3. Rebel fortifications at St. John’s Bluff, on St. John’s river, Fla., captured by 1500 Feds. under Gen. Brannan, assisted by 7 gunb’s from Hilton Head, S. C.
3. Fight on the Blackwater river, near Franklin, Va. 3 Fed. gunboats, Commodore Perry, Hunchback, and Whitehead, under Capt. Flusser, engaged a large force of rebs. 6 hours. Fed. loss 19 k. and wounded.
3. 11th Pa. cavalry, Col. Spears, engaged reb. forces at Franklin, on Blackwater river, Va. Rebs. retreated with loss of 30 or 40 killed and wounded.
3–5. A series of battles near Corinth, Miss. A reb. army of 38,000 men under Price, Van Dorn, and Lovell, attacked Rosecrans’ army, under Gens. Ord, Hurlbut, and Veatch. Rebs. routed with heavy loss of k. and w., and 1,000 pris. National loss also heavy.
4. Richard Howes, inaugurated rebel governor of Kentucky, at Frankfort.
4. A fight near Bardstown, Ky. Fed. advance guard under Maj. Foster, defeated by rear-guard of Polk’s army.
4. A company of the 54th Pa. capturedat Paw-Paw, on the Balt. and Ohio railroad.
4. Fed. cavalry under Col. M’Reynolds, captured a rebel camp near the above place, with 2 guns, 10 wagons and 60 horses.
5. Gen. Price’s rebel army, retreating from Corinth, Miss., were overtaken by Gens. Old and Hurlbut at the Hatchie river, where, after 6 hours’ fighting, the rebels broke in disorder, leaving their dead and wounded, 400 prisoners, and 2 batteries.
5. Skirmish 6 miles north of Glasgow, Ky. Feds. under Col. Bruce, routed a rebel force, taking a number of horses and cattle.
5. Jacksonville, Fla., occupied by Union forces under Gen. Brannan.
6. A mob in Blackford Co., Ind., destroyed the enrolling papers and draft boxes.
6. A rebel battery at Cockpit Point, Va., on the Potomac, destroyed by a Fed. gunboat.
6. Skirmish near Charlestown, Va. 6th U. S. cavalry and Robertson’s battery engaged a rebel force with slight results.
6. Fight at Lavergne, near Nashville, Tenn. Gen. Palmer’s Union brigade, 2,500 men, were attacked by rebels under Gen. Anderson, who were defeated with a loss of 10 killed and wounded. Fed. loss, 18 in killed and wounded.
7. Lexington, Ky., evacuated by rebels under E. Kirby Smith, who retreated towards Cumberland Gap.
7. The monitor Nahant launched at Boston.
7. Skirmish near Sibley’s Landing, Mo. 5th Mo. cavalry defeated rebels under Quantrell and Childs.
7. Gen. Morgan’s Union troops reached Frankfort, Ky.
7. The bark Wave, and brig Dunkirk, were destroyed by the rebel privateer, Alabama.
8. Battle at Chaplin Hills, Perryville, Ky., by the armies of Gens. Buell and Bragg. Rebs. retreated across Chaplin river. Fed. loss, 3,200 in killed, wounded and missing. Rebel loss fully as great.
8. 550 Feds. under Major Bradford, 17 government wagons, and a number of sutler’s wagons, were captured by rebels under E. Kirby Smith, near Frankfort, Ky.
9. Galveston, Texas, occupied by Feds. under Commander Renshaw.
9. Skirmish near Laurenceburg, Ky. 1st Ohio, Col. Parrott, defeated part of Gen. Smith’s troops with considerable loss. Union loss, 6 killed, 8 wounded.
9. Gen. Sigel’s cavalry captured 40 rebs. and several wagons at Aldie, Va.
9. The monitor Montauk launched at Greenpoint, L. I.
9. The rebel steamer Gov. Milton captured on St. Johns river, Fla., by gunboat Darlington.
10. 1,800 reb. cavalry, under J. E. B. Stuart, crossed the Potomac at McCoy’s creek, and penetrated to Mercersburg and Chambersburg, Pa., and after capturing and destroying much property, made good their retreat with slight loss.
10. Gen. Schofield drove the Confederate forces across the Mo. line into Ark.
10. 1,600 rebs., the rear-guard of Bragg’s army, captured at Harrodsburg, Ky., by Lieut.-Col. Boyle, with 9th Ky. cavalry.
10. 100 reb. guerrillas entered Hawesville, Ind., but were driven out by the Connelton Home Guard.
11. Skirmish near Helena, Ark. 4th Iowa cavalry, Major Rector, defeated Texan rangers under Col. Giddings, capturing 9 of them. 3 Feds. killed and 9 wounded.
11. Ship Manchester, of N. Y., captured and burned by the Alabama.
11. 27 rebs. of Col. Imboden’s command, with all their camp equipage, captured by 300 of Col. McReynolds’ cavalry 17 miles from Winchester, Va.
11. The U. S. gunboat Maratanza lying off Cape Fear river, N. C., had 2 men killed and 5 wounded by a reb. battery.
11. Gen. Dumont’s Fed. troops captured 350 rebs., a wagon train, and 2 pieces of artillery at Versailles, Ky.
12. Skirmishing on the Potomac river, at the mouth of the Monocacy, near White’s Ford, by Gen. Pleasanton’s cavalry with rebs. under Gen. Stuart.
12. 29 persons arrested and 2 hung at Gainesville, Texas, who were accused of Union sentiments.
13. More than 100 prisoners taken by Union troops under Gen. Stahel, in the vicinity of Paris, Snicker’s Gap, and Leesburg, Va.
13. The 6th Mo., Col. Catherwood, returned to camp at Sedalia, Mo., after a successful scout, in which several bands of guerrillas were broken up, and 50 of them killed and wounded.
14. The English propeller Ouachita, captured in the Gulf Stream by U. S. gunboat Memphis.
14. Skirmish at Stanford, Ky., by scouts of Gens. Buell’s and Bragg’s armies. 14 rebs. captured, and several killed.
Oct. 15.The bark Lamplighter, of Boston, captured by the Alabama.
15. Drafting in Boston and Baltimore.
15. Steamer Hazel Dell captured at Caseyville, Ky., by rebs. under Cols. Anderson and Johnson.
15. Skirmish near Carrsville, Va. Part of 7th Pa. cavalry, Lieut. Williams, defeated by rebs., losing several of their number.
15. U. S. Steamer Kensington, Master Crocker, destroyed a railroad bridge and burned 2 vessels at Taylor’s Bayou, Tex.
16. The sloop-of-war Ticonderoga was launched at Brooklyn, N. Y.
16. Gen. Humphrey’s troops driven from Shepherdstown, Va., by rebs., with slight loss.
16. Skirmish near Charlestown, Va. Gen. Hancock’s troops successfully engaged rebs. Union loss, 1 killed and 8 wounded. Reb. loss, 9 wounded and taken prisoners.
17. The Fed. garrison on the Tenn. shore, opposite island No. 10 attacked by reb. forces, who were defeated with loss.
17. Morgan’s Confed. cavalry dashed into Lexington, Ky., and attacked 350 Fed. cavalry, under Major Seidel, 3rd O. Fed. loss, 4 killed, 24 wounded, and 120 prisoners.
17. Quantrell’s guerrillas entered Shawnee, Kansas, sacked the town, burned 13 houses and killed 4 men.
17. Skirmish at Thoroughfare Gap, Va. Gen. Stahel’s troops drove rebs. toward Haymarket, and captured 100 prisoners.
17. The draft resisted in Berkley, Luzerne co., Pa. 4 insurgents killed. Resistance also in Carbondale, Scranton, and other towns in the mining district.
18. Pickets of the 43rd Ind. dispersed by rebs. at Helena, Ark., losing several of their number.
18. 350 of the 4th Ohio cavalry, Capt. Robey, captured at Lexington, Ky., by reb. cavalry under Gen. Morgan.
18. 10 guerrillas were shot at Palmyra, Mo., by order of Gen. McNeill, in retaliation for the murder of Andrew Allsman, an aged Union citizen.
18. Nine Union pickets were shot on the Mississippi, opposite Helena, Ark.
18. A lieut. with 26 men and a supply train for Gen. Stahel were captured by rebs. at Haymarket, and taken to Warrenton, Va.
19. A train of 82 wagons was captured by Morgan’s reb. cavalry at Bardstown, Ky.
19. Fight on the Cumberland river 7 miles from Nashville, Tenn. Col. Miller’s brigade of Fed. troops routed a force of Confederate cavalry, and captured a large store of army supplies.
20. 500 cases of yellow fever reported at Wilmington, N. C., 30 or 40 dying daily.
20. Skirmish on the Auxvois river, Mo. Major Woodson, with 10th Mo. militia dispersed rebel guerrillas with slight loss, capturing their camp stores and horses.
20. The 10th Illinois cavalry, Lieut.-Col. Stuart, defeated 250 reb. cavalry, near Marshfield, Mo., taking 27 prisoners.
21. Skirmishing in Loudon co., Va., by Gen. Geary’s Union troops, who took 75 prisoners.
21. Skirmish at Woodville, Tenn. 2nd Illinois cavalry, Major J. J. Mudd, defeated guerrillas under Haywood, capturing 40 with their arms, and 100 horses and mules.
21. Fight at Fort Cobb, Indian Terr. Loyal Indians from 6 tribes defeated rebs. of the Tongkawa tribe, under Col. Leper, with great slaughter. Col. Leper killed.
22. Gen. Blunt’s army defeated 5,000 rebs. at old Fort Wayne, Marysville, N. W. Ark., capturing all their artillery and transportation equipage.
22. Rebs. under Gen. Hindman driven from Huntsville, Ark., by Gen. Schofield.
22. Battle at Pocotaligo, S. C. Gen. Brannan’s Fed. troops defeated with a loss of 30 killed and 180 wounded, by rebels under Gen. Beauregard.
22. Skirmish near Van Buren, Ark. Union cavalry under Major Lazear defeated 450 rebels under Col. Boone, with considerable loss.
22. 30 wagons of the 5th and 9th Ill. cavalry captured by Texan troops near Helena, Ark.
22. Union pickets defeated in a skirmish near Nashville, Tenn.
22. Brig Robert Bruce, captured off Shallotte inlet, N. C., by U. S. gunboat Penobscot.
22. Skirmish near Hedgesville, Va. 4th Pa. cavalry, Capt. Duncan, defeated rebels, capturing 19 prisoners.
23. 200 of the 83d Ill., Major Blott, defeated rebels at Waverly, Tenn. Rebel loss, 40 killed and wounded, and 30 prisoners. Union loss, 1 killed, 5 wounded.
23. Skirmish near Shelby Depot, Tenn. 55th Illinois, Col. Stuart, defeated rebels, who lost 8 or 10 men.
23. 500 Fed. cavalry, Col. E. M’Cook, defeated Morgan’s cavalry at Point Lick, Big Hill, and Richmond, Ky., taking 33 wagons and 200 prisoners.
23. Ship Lafayette, of Conn., burned by the Alabama.
24. A Fed. force of 80 was defeated at Manassas Junction, Va., losing 17 prisoners.
24. Skirmish at Grand Prairie, Mo. Maj. F. G. White’s cavalry defeated a reb. force, who lost 8 killed and 20 wounded. Fed. loss, 3 wounded.
24. Skirmish on the Blackwater, near Suffolk, Va. Gen. Perry’s troops defeated rebs. who lost 6 men. One Unionist killed.
24. Sixteen of Gen. Morgan’s men captured by a Federal force at Morgantown, Ky.
24. Steamer Scotia capt’ed off Charleston, S. C., by U. S. bark Restless.
25. Gen. Buell removed from the Department of Ky., and Gen. Rosecrans appointed commander.
25. Part of 43d Ind., on a scout near Helena, Ark., 3 of them killed and 2 wounded by guerrillas in ambush.
27. Steamer Anglia capt’d off Charleston, S. C., by U. S. bark Restless and steamer Flag.
27. Skirmish near Fayetteville, Ark. Gen. Herron’s Fed. troops defeated guerrillas, killing 8, and capturing their wagons.
27. Skirmish at Putnam’s Ferry, Mo. 23d Iowa, Col. Lewis, defeated a large force of rebs., who lost several killed and 40 prisoners.
27. Fight near Donaldsonville, La. Gen. Weitzel’s troops defeated rebs., who lost 6 killed, 15 wounded and 208 prisoners. Fed. loss, 18 killed, 74 wounded.
27. Gen. Pleasanton’s cavalry drove the rebs. from Snicker’s Gap, Va.
28. Capt. Partridge’s Fed. pickets were captured near Pensacola, Fla.
28. The steamer Caroline captured off Mobile, Ala., by U. S. steamer Montgomery.
28. Gen. Herron, with 1,000 men attacked a Confederate camp near Fayetteville, Ark., under Col. Craven, routing them with a loss of 8 killed and their camp equipage.
28. A company of reb. cavalry captured near Cotton Creek, Fla., by Union troops.
28. The bark Lauretta, of N. Y., captured and burned by the Alabama.
29. Skirmish 5 miles from Petersburg, Va. Lieut.-Col. Quirk routed a detachment of Stuart’s reb. cavalry, capturing 16 men and 200 cattle.
29. Fight near Butler, Bates Co., Mo. 1st Kansas (colored), Col. Seaman, defeated reb. guerrillas under Cockerill, with a loss of 30 killed and wounded. Union loss, 8 killed, 10 wounded.
29. Maj. Keenan, 8th Pa. cavalry captured 100 rebs. while on a scout in the Shenandoah valley, Va.
29. Ship Alleghanian, of New York, burned on the Rappahannock river, Va., by rebels.
30. Maj.-Gen. O. M. Mitchell, Commander of Department of the South, died at Beaufort, S. C.
30. Skirmish at Thoroughfare Gap, Va. 1st N. J. cavalry, Col. Wyndham, engaged a rebel force with slight loss.
31. The town of Franklin, on the Blackwater river, Va., partially destroyed by Union batteries, a reb. force stationed there being driven out with loss.
31. The Wilmington, N. C. salt-works destroyed by Capt. Cushing, gunboat Ellis.
Nov. 1.The U. S. steamer Northerner, and gunboat States of the North, with a detachment of 3d N. Y. cavalry and 2 pieces of Allen’s artillery, under Maj. Garrard, captured 2 rebel schooners on Pungo Creek, N. C. Disembarking at Montgomery, the troops marched to Germantown, Swanquarter, and Middletown, capturing in those places 25 prisoners and 130 horses and mules.
1. The town of Lavacca, on Matagorda Bay, Texas, bombarded by U. S. gunboats Clifton and Westfield.
1. Skirmish at Franklin, Va. Gen. Wessell’s brigade, 11th Pa. cavalry, and other troops, drove the rebels from the town with some loss.
2. Skirmishes near Philomont, Va. by Gen. Pleasanton’s cavalry with Stuart’s rebel forces.
2. Snicker’s Gap, Va. occupied by Gen. Hancock’s troops after a slight skirmish with the enemy.
2. Col. Dewey’s troops returned to Patterson, Wayne Co., Mo., from an expedition to Pittman’s ferry, Currant river, where they captured 13 rebels.
2. A skirmish near Williamstown, N. C. between part of the 20th N. C. rebels under Col. Burgwyn, and some Federal troops.
2. Col. Lee, of Hamilton’s National cavalry, returned to Grand Junction, Miss. after a three days’ expedition towards Ripley and 10 miles south, having captured 65 of the enemy with slight resistance.
2. The ship Levi Starbuck captured and burned by the Alabama.
3. A fight in Bayou Teche, La., 5 Uniongunboats engaged a large rebel force and the gunboat Cotton. The rebels retreated after burning 75 cars and engines, and 1000 hogsheads of sugar. Fed. loss about 14 killed and wounded.
Nov. 3.Tampa, Fla. was bombarded by the Union forces.
3. 300 rebs. under Quantrell attacked a wagon train of 13 wagons, escorted by 22 of the 6th Mo. cavalry, Lieut. Newby, near Harrisonville, Mo., killing 8 of the escort, wounding 4 and taking 5 prisoners, and burning the wagons. The rebel troops were shortly after overtaken by the 5th and 6th Mo. cavalry and defeated with severe loss.
3. The steamer Darlington, with col’d troops under Col. O. T. Beard, proceeded up Bell river, Fla., to Cooper’s, where they destroyed the salt works, and all stores that could not be carried off. From thence they went up Jolly river, destroying salt works, with a large amount of corn and salt.
3. Skirmish near New Baltimore, Va. Capt. Flint, with pickets from 1st Vt. cavalry, defeated a reb. party.
3. Piedmont, Va., occupied by Union cavalry under Pleasanton and Averill.
3. Fight in Webster Co., Ky. Col. Foster captured 3 lieutenants, 22 men, 40 horses, &c.
3. Horatio Seymour elected Governor of New York.
4. 3 Union pickets captured near Bolivar Heights, Va.
4. La Grange, Miss. occupied by Gen. Grant’s forces.
4. Bark Sophia captured off N. C. coast by U. S. steamers Daylight and Mount Vernon.
4. The U. S. steamer Darlington, with Col. O. T. Beard’s colored troops destroyed rebel salt works at King’s Bay, Ga., after slight skirmishing with the enemy.
5. Skirmish at Lamar, Mo. 80 State militia driven from the place by Quantrell’s rebel troop.
5. Skirmish at Barber’s Cross-Roads, Va. Gen. Pleasanton’s cavalry defeated a detachment of Gen. Stuart’s reb. troops.
5. Maj. Holloway’s Federal cavalry defeated a party of guerrillas under Col. Fowler, between Henderson and Bowling Green, Ky. Reb. loss 8 killed, including the commander, besides a large number of wounded prisoners.
5. Skirmish at New Baltimore, Va. Col. Wyndham’s Fed. cavalry defeated rebels.
5. Skirmish near Nashville, Tenn. Gen. Negley’s Fed. troops defeated Gen. J. H. Morgan’s forces, capturing 23 Union loss 5 killed, 19 wounded.
5. Gen. McClellan relieved from command of the Army of the Potomac, and Gen. Burnside appointed his successor.
6. Warrenton, Va., captured by Gen. Reynolds, who took 7 Confed. prisoners.
6. Fight at Piketon, Ky. Col. Dills routed Confederates, capturing 80, and securing 150 muskets, 40 horses, wagons, &c.
6. Skirmish near Leatherwood, Ky. Capt. Powell’s Fed. company routed guerrillas, who fled, leaving 6 of their number dead, and their captain mortally wounded.
7. At Beaver Creek, Mo., Capt. Barstow’s company of 10th Ill. cavalry, and 2 militia companies, defended a block house for 5 hours against a superior force, when he surrendered.
7. Expedition up the Sapelo river, Ga., by U. S. steamers Potomska and Darlington, and 48th N. Y., Col. O. T. Beard. A valuable salt work destroyed, and a number of rebs. and slaves captured.
7. Skirmish at Lamar, Mo. State militia successfully resist an attack from Quantrell’s band.
7. 300 Indians, who were engaged in the massacres in Minnesota, were sentenced to be hung—most of whom were afterwards pardoned.
8. Skirmish at Rappahannock bridge, Va. Gen. Bayard’s troops captured 12 of Longstreet’s rebels.
8. Skirmish at Hudsonville, Miss. 7th Kansas, Col. Lee, defeated rebels, who lost 16 killed, and 175 captured.
8. Ship T. B. Wales burned by the Alabama.
8. Skirmish near Marianna, Ark. Part of 3d and 4th Iowa cavalry, Capt. M. L. Perkins, defeated rebels, who lost 5 killed and several wounded. 1 Fed. wounded.
9. Skirmish at Fredericksburg, Va. Capt. Dahlgren’s troops drove off a Confed. party, after a sharp skirmish, capturing 39 prisoners and stores.
9. Gen. Kelley’s Fed. cavalry defeated Imboden’s troops 18 miles S.W. of Moorefield, Va.
9. St. Mary’s, Fla., burned by U. S. gunboat Mohawk in retaliation for the treachery of the inhabitants.
9. Skirmish in Perry Co., Ky., on the Kentucky river. Capts. Morgan and Eversod’s troops defeated guerrillas.
10. Lieut. Ash, 2d U. S. dragoons, defeated part of 5th Va. cavalry, 10 miles south of Warrenton, Va.
10. Capt. G. W. Gilmore captured twowagons and several rebels near Williamsburg, Greenbrier Co., Va.
11. Skirmish near Huntsville, Tenn. Capt. Duncan’s Home Guards routed a small band of rebs. who lost 6 killed and several wounded.
11. A fight near Lebanon, Tenn. National cavalry under Capts. Kennett and Wolford defeated Morgan’s men, who lost 7 killed and 125 prisoners.
11. National pickets driven in with slight loss at Newbern, N. C.
11. 134 prisoners taken and 16 rebs. killed by Col. Lee’s Kansas cavalry near La Grange, Tenn.
11. Gen. Ransom defeated Confederate forces near Garretsburg, Ky.
12. Gen. Hooker appointed to relieve Gen. Fitz John Porter in command of the 5th Army Corps.
12. Cavalry engagement near Lamar, Miss. Detachments of 2nd Ill. and 27th Kansas, Maj. J. J. Mudd, routed a force of rebs. with severe loss.
13. Slight skirmish at Holly Springs, Miss. Col. Lee’s cavalry killed 4 rebs. and captured several.
13. Expedition to the Doboy river, Ga., by U. S. steamers Ben Deford and Darlington, with Col. Beard’s colored troops, who seized a large quantity of reb. property.
13. A reb. camp near Calhoun, Green river, Ky. was surprised by Col. Shanks, with 400 men, who captured their arms and camp equipage.
15. Fight near Fayetteville, Va., by Fed. troops under Gen. Sturgis and a large body of rebs., who were defeated.
16. The remaining corps of the army of the Potomac, excepting the 5th and Gen. Pleasanton’s cavalry, left Warrenton, and proceeded towards Fredericksburg.
17. Pickets of the 104th Pa. surprised at Gloucester Point, Pa. and 1 killed, 3 wounded, and 2 captured.
18. Skirmish at Rural Hills, Tenn. Col. Hawkins’ troops defeated reb. cavalry, who left 16 of their number dead on the field.
18. At Cove Creek, near Kinston, N. C., Lieut.-Col. Mix with part of 3d N. Y. cavalry and Allis’s artillery, defeated the 10th N. C. infantry and some of the 2d N. C. cavalry, who retreated with the loss of arms and equipments.
18. Falmouth, Va. occupied by Gen. Sumner’s Fed. troops.
18. The English schooners Ariel and Ann Marie captured off Little Run, S. C. by U. S. gunboat Monticello.
19. James A. Seddons appointed reb. Sec. of War, in place of G. W. Randolph, resigned.
19. The 1st Gen. Council of the Epis. Church in the reb. States met at Augusta, Ga.
20. Col. Carlin’s expedition returned to Nashville, Tenn., from Clarksville, having captured 43 rebs., 40 horses, &c.
20. Fed. pickets surprised at Bull Run bridge, Va., and 3 captured.
20. Warrenton and Leesburg, Va., occupied by reb. cavalry.
21. Gen. Sumner, commanding right wing of army of the Potomac, in front of Fredericksburg, Va.
21. Skirmish at Bayou Bontouca, near Fort Pike, La. Capt. Darling’s company of 31st Mass. defeated rebs. under Capt. Evans, who lost 4 killed and several wounded. Union loss 1 wounded.
22. All political State prisoners held by military authority in the U. S. released by order of the Sec. of War.
22. Part of 1st N. Y. cavalry, Capt. Harkins, defeated rebs. near Winchester, Va., who lost 4 men and 30 horses.
22. An expedition into Matthew Co., Va., by steamer Mahaska, Capt. F. A. Parker, with land forces under Gen. Naglee, destroyed 12 salt works, and 20 or 30 vessels and other reb. property.
22. Skirmish near Halltown, Va., by Gen. Geary’s troops.
23. Lieut. Cushing, U. S. steamer Ellis, captured 2 schrs. on New river, N. C., but lost his own vessel on the shoals in returning.
24. A reb. picket of 12 men captured by Gen. Kelley’s cavalry 4 miles from Winchester, Va.
24. A Fed. supply train of 47 wagons, escorted by 50 3d Mo. cavalry, was attacked by rebs. about 30 miles south of Lebanon, Texas Co., Mo. 5 of the escort were killed and 20 wagons captured.
25. The U. S. gunboat Lexington, J. W. Shirk, attacked 20 miles below Helena, Ark. The enemy were repelled, leaving several of their number killed. Capt. Shirk landed a party of sailors, who carried off 20 negroes and 16 bales of cotton.
25. A slight skirmish at Zuni, on the Blackwater river, Va., by mounted rifles under Col. Dodge, and a reb. force.
25. A company of Fed. troops captured at Henderson, Tenn., by reb. cavalry.
25. In Crawford Co., Mo., a company of reb. guerrillas carried off horses, firearms, clothing, &c., from farmers. Returning,near Huzza river, Iron Co., they were overtaken by Capt. N. B. Reeve’s company, who killed 2 of their party and recovered the plunder.
Nov. 25.Col. Paxton’s loyal Va. cavalry captured 118 prisoners, 300 stand of arms, 100 horses, and other property, near Sinking Creek, W. Va.
26. Fight at Cold Knob Mountain, Va. 2d Va. cavalry, Col. J. C. Paxton, defeated reb. troops, of whom over 100 were taken prisoners.
26. 25 guerrillas, under Evan Dorsey, crossed the Potomac, and robbed the stores and stables in Urbanna, 7 miles above Frederic, Md. killing a man named Harris.
26. 7th Ill. cavalry attacked rebs. near Summerville, Miss., and captured 28 of their number.
27. Indiana troops, under Cols. Hurd and Dodge, defeated rebels near La Vergne, Tenn., several of whom were killed. National loss 10 wounded.
28. Gen. Blunt defeated Gen. Marmaduke’s Confederate forcesen routefor Missouri, at Kane Hill, Ark. The battle raged over 12 miles. The rebels retreated to Van Buren, Ark.
28. At Hartwood Church, 15 miles from Falmouth, Va., 2 squadrons of 3d Pa. cavalry, Gen. Averill’s brigade, captured by the enemy, after a brief resistance, in which they lost 4 killed and 9 wounded.
28. A large Fed. expedition, under Gen. A. P. Hovey, left Helena, Ark., and arrived at Delta, Miss., cutting the Tenn. and Mississippi railroad, and destroying 2 engines and 30 cars. Gen. Washburne’s cavalry encountered the rear of Price’s rebel army, and captured 50 men, near the Big Black river.
29. The U. S. steamer Star was burned by rebs. 2 miles below Plaqeumine, La.
29. Gen. Stahl, with 300 cavalry, attacked rebs. at Snicker’s Gap, Va., killing 45, capturing 40.
30. A skirmish near Abbeville, Miss., by Col. Lee’s troops with a rebel force.
30. The schooner Levi Rowe captured off N. Carolina by U. S. steamer Mount Vernon.
30. The bark Parker Cook destroyed by reb. steamer Alabama in the Mona Passage.
Dec. 1.U. S. Congress convened at Washington.
1. Col. Lee’s cavalry took possession of rebel forts on the Tallahatchie river. He also captured a battery of 6 guns on the north side of the river.
1. Skirmish near Horse Creek, Dade Co., Mo. Maj. Kelley’s 4th Mo. cavalry routed a band of rebs., capturing 5.
1. Skirmish near Charlestown, Va. Gen. Slocum’s Fed. troops defeated rebel cavalry under White and Henderson, killing 5, and wounding 18.
1. At Franklin, Va., Gen. Peck recaptured the Pittsburg battery, taken from the Fed. forces on the Peninsula.
2. A fight near Franklin, Va. 11th Pa. cavalry, Col. Spear, with artillery supports, defeated reb. cavalry with severe loss.
2. Lieut. Hoffman and 6 men of 1st N. J. cavalry, captured while on picket duty 3 miles from Dumfries, Va.
2. Two companies of 8th Pa. cavalry, Capt. Wilson, defeated with severe loss at King George Court House, Va.
2. Part of Gen. Banks’ expedition to New Orleans sailed from New York.
2. Gen. Geary defeated rebels near Charlestown, Va., killing and wounding 70, and capturing 145.
3. Princeton, Ky., occupied by Federal troops, 91st Ind. and 15th Ky., under Maj. A. P. Henry, who captured a number of rebels.
3. Skirmishes near Oxford, Miss. Col. Hatch’s brigade captured 92 rebs. Fed. loss in killed and wounded, 20.
4. Skirmish near Tuscumbia, Ala. Rebs. abandoned their camps, losing 70 men prisoners, and their horses.
4. Winchester, Va., occupied by Gen. Geary’s troops, the rebel garrison leaving on his approach.
4. A sharp fight at Watervalley, Miss. Col. Hatch and Lee’s Fed. brigades defeated a rebel force, capturing 300 men and 50 horses.
5. Fed. cavalry under Cols. Dickey and Lee defeated by rebel infantry after two hours’ fight. Union loss, 100 killed, wounded, and missing.
5. The 30th Iowa and 29th Wis. attacked by rebs. at Helena, Ark., whom they repulsed, killing 8, and capturing 30.
6. The schr. Medora, with rebel army stores, was captured at Hackett’s Point Md., by Capt. Kearney’s company.
6. A forage train, in charge of 93d Ohio, Col. Anderson, was attacked by rebs. near Lebanon, Tenn., who were driven off.
6. Gen. Banks’ expedition sailed from New York to New Orleans.
7. U. S. mail steamer Ariel captured off Cuba by rebel steamer Alabama, but released on bond for $228,000.
7. Gens. Blunt and Herron defeated15,000 rebels under Gens. Hindman, Marmaduke, Parsons, and Frost, at Prairie Grove, N.W. Ark. Federal loss, 495 killed, 600 wounded. Confed. loss, 1,500 killed and wounded.
7. The 106th and 108th Ohio, and 104th Ill., under Col. A. B. Moore, were attacked by a rebel force under Gen. J. H. Morgan, at Hartsville, Tenn. After a fight in which 55 of the Feds. were killed, and over 100 wounded, the entire force surrendered to the rebels, who lost about the same number in killed and wounded.
7. 60 of the 8th Pa. cavalry defeated at King George’s C. H., Va. Loss 20.
9. A body of rebels attacked a forage train, under escort, near LaVergne, Tenn., but were repulsed with considerable loss.
9. U. S. steamer Lake City was burned by rebels at Concordia, Ark. In retaliation, the steamer De Soto went to Concordia, and burned 42 houses.
9. Skirmish near Brentville, Tenn. Federals under Col. John A. Martin, defeated a rebel force.
10. Congress passed a bill admitting to the Union the State of Western Va.
10. Plymouth, N. C., captured and burned by the Confederates.
11. The U. S. gunboat Cairo sunk in the Yazoo river by a torpedo. The crew saved.
11. The city of Fredericksburg, Va., bombarded and occupied by Fed. troops.
12. Skirmish near Corinth, Miss. 52d Ill., Col. Sweeney, engaged a rebel force led by Col. Roddy. Rebel loss, 11 killed, 80 wounded; Union loss, 1 killed, and 2 prisoners.
12. 1,750 paroled Union prisoners, who had been captured by Gen. Morgan, arrived at Nashville.
12. Artillery skirmish by Gen. Terry’s Federal troops, near Zuni, on the Blackwater river, Va.
12. At Dumfries, Va., 35 National pickets and sutlers were captured by Gen. Stuart’s cavalry.
12. Gen. Foster engaged and defeated Confederates near Kingston, N. C., capturing 400 prisoners, 13 pieces of artillery, &c.
12. Rebel salt works at Yellville, Ark., destroyed by Federal troops under Capt. M. Birch.
12. Rebs. attacked at Franklin, Tenn., by cavalry under Gen. D. S. Stanley, who drove them from the town, and destroyed mills and other property. Reb. loss, 5 killed, 10 wounded. One Fed. killed.
13. Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. The reb. works were attacked by the National army under Gen. Burnside. It consisted of three grand divisions led by Gens. Sumner, Hooker and Franklin. The Fed. army was repulsed, losing 1,512 killed, 6,000 wounded, and 460 prisoners. The rebels lost 1,800 men.
13. Jeff. Davis reviewed the reb. forces under Bragg at Murfreesboro’.
13. Two regiments of Union infantry and one of cavalry surprised a rebel force at Tuscumbia, Ala., completely routing them and capturing 70 prisoners, their horses and baggage. Federal loss, 4 killed, 14 wounded.
13. Gov. Johnson, of Tenn., assessed disloyal citizens of Nashville in various amounts to be paid in 5 monthly instalments, in behalf of widows and orphans of that city who had been reduced to want in consequence of their husbands and fathers being forced into the rebel armies.
13. Skirmish at Southwest Creek, N. C. Gen. Foster’s troops routed rebels, who lost a number of prisoners and guns.
13. Unsuccessful attack on reb. works on the river, at Kinston, N. C., by small boats under Capt. Murray.
14. Two hundred Feds. under Capt. Thornberry, of 39th Ky., were defeated by 800 rebels at Wireman’s Shoals, 5 miles below Prestonsburg, Ky. Rebs. captured 700 muskets, as many uniforms, and 40,000 rounds of cartridges.
14. TheTrue Presbyterianand theBaptist Recorder, of Louisville, Ky., were suppressed, and the editor of theRecordersent to prison.
14. Coffeeville, Miss., occupied by Fed. forces under Cols. Mizner and Lee.
14. Gen. Foster’s troops engaged and defeated the Confeds. near Kingston, N. C., capturing 400 prisoners, 13 pieces of artillery, &c. Reb. loss, 71 killed, 268 wounded. Fed. loss, 90 killed, 478 w.
14. A Confed. cavalry force crossed the Potomac at Poolesville, Md., and captured 13 Fed. soldiers of the Scott cavalry, killing or wounding about 20 more.
14. Gen. Banks’ expedition arrived at New Orleans.
14. A picket guard of 24 men of the 6th Mo., were captured by rebs. at Helena, Ark.
14. Slight skirmish at Woodsonville, Tenn.
14. A wagon train laden with provisions and clothing for Fed. troops at Ringgold Barracks, Texas, on its way from Fort Brown, under escort, was attackedby Mexicans and captured, and the escort killed, excepting one man.
Dec. 15.Gen. Hovey’s expedition returned to Helena, Ark.
15. Gen. Butler superseded in command of the Department of the Gulf by Gen. Banks.
16. Rebs. under Gen. Evans defeated in an artillery duel on the banks of the river Neuse, near Whitehall, N. C., by Gen. Foster’s troops.
16. Three hundred Ga., Texas and Ky. cavalry captured near New Haven, Ky., by a detachment of Walford’s cavalry, under Capt. Adams.
16. The army of the Potomac withdrawn to the north side of the Rappahannock, from Fredericksburg, Va.
17. Baton Rouge, La., occupied by Fed. troops under Gen. Grover.
17. Fight at Goldsboro’, N. C. Gen. Foster’s troops destroyed a valuable bridge, and defeated rebels under Gen. Evans.
18. Lexington, Ky., occupied by rebs. under Gen. Forrest, after defeating the 11th Ill. cavalry, Col. R. G. Ingersoll, who fought 2 hours, and lost 40 men and 2 cannon.
18. The steamer Mill Boy, at Commerce, Miss., was fired on by reb. cavalry and 3 men killed. The U. S. gunboat Juliet and City Belle with 11th and 47th Ind. were dispatched to Commerce and burnt the town and plantations in the neighborhood.
19. Holly Springs, Miss., surrendered to rebs. with 1,800 men and 150 officers. $1,000,000 worth of commissary stores, &c., destroyed.
19. A lieutenant and 30 men of 10th N. Y. cavalry, with 14 wagons, captured at Occoquan, Va., by reb. cavalry, who were overtaken by Col. Rush’s cavalry and compelled to destroy their plunder.
19. Col. Dickey’s Fed. cavalry returned to camp, near Oxford, Miss., from a 6 days’ scout, with 150 prisoners. 34 miles of the Ohio and Mobile railroad were destroyed, with a large amount of rebel stores.
20. Skirmish near Halltown, Va. Capt. Vernon’s Fed. cavalry defeated rebs., capturing 3.
19–20. A body of reb. cavalry under Col. Forrest attacked a Fed. force at Davis’s Mills, Tenn., and were repulsed by them. On the succeeding day, Humboldt, Trenton, Dyers, Rutherton, and Keaton were visited by them, and telegraph lines and railroad bridges destroyed, thus severing Gen. Grant’s communication between Columbus and Corinth.
20. Gen. W. T. Sherman’s expeditionary army against Vicksburg embarked at Memphis, Tenn., in over 100 transports.
21. Gen. Carter, with 1000 cavalry, entered E. Tenn., and captured 550 rebels and 700 stand of arms.
21. Skirmish near Nashville, Tenn. Gen. Van Cleve’s troops with reb. artil’y.
21. Secretaries Seward and Chase tendered their resignation to Pres. Lincoln, who informed them that the acceptance of them would be incompatible with the public welfare; when the resignations were withdrawn.
21. The 25th Ind., Col. W. H. Morgan, in garrison at Davis’s Mills, Wolf river, Miss., were attacked by a large cavalry force of rebs. under Gen. Van. After 3 hours’ contest the rebels withdrew, leaving 22 dead, 30 wounded, 20 prisoners, and 100 stand of arms.
22. Skirmish at Isle of Wight Court House, Va. Lieut. Onderdonk’s N. Y. mounted rifles defeated by Gen. Pryor’s troops. Rebs. lost 2 men.
22. Maj.-Gen. R. C. Schenck assumed command of the Middle Department and 8th Army corps, headquarters at Baltimore, Md.
23. A proclamation from Jeff. Davis, threatening to hang Gen. Butler, or any of his officers who should be captured, in retaliation for the hanging of W. B. Mumford at N. Orleans.
23. Gen. Sigel’s troops attacked at Dumfries, Va. by reb. cavalry, who were repulsed.
24. Skirmish near Munfordsville, Ky. Capt. Dickey’s company of 2d Mich. were defeated by rebs. of Gen. Morgan’s army, losing 23 men prisoners.
24. Skirmish on the Blackwater river, Va., 4 miles above Franklin. 11th Pa. cavalry, Col. Spears, dispersed rebel troops, capturing 4.
24. Gen. M. L. Smith’s Fed. troops destroyed Vicksburg and Texas railroad 10 miles W. of Vicksburg, and burned stations at Delhi and Dallas.
25. Skirmish at Green’s Chapel, near Munfordville, Ky. Col. Gray’s Fed. troops defeated rebs. of Morgan’s army, who lost 9 killed, 22 wounded and 5 prisoners.
25. Col. Shanks with 12th Ky. cavalry attacked rebs. near Bear Wallow, Ky. killing 1, wounding 2 and capturing 10.
26. 38 Indians hung at Mankato, Minn, for participating in the late massacres in that State.
26. Maj. Stevens, with 150 of 4th Ky. attacked a reb. camp in Powell Co., Ky.capturing 12 men, with most of the camp equipage.
27. A company of Pa. cavalry, under Capt. Johnson, captured at Occoquan, Va.
27. Elizabethtown, Ky. with a garrison of nearly 500 men under Col. H. S. Smith, was captured by Gen. Morgan’s reb. army, after a short resistance. An immense amount of public and private stores were carried off by the rebs.
27. Fight at Dumfries, Va. Col. C. Candy’s troops were attacked by rebs. under Gens. Stuart and Fitz Hugh Lee, who were driven off with the loss of 30 or 40 men in killed and wounded. Fed. loss about 10 killed and wounded.
27–29. Attack on Vicksburg, Miss. by Gen. Sherman’s army and Fed. gunboats. Gen. Sherman’s army ascended the Yazoo river on transports, landed and attacked the reb. works in the rear of Vicksburg, while the gunboats assailed the batteries at Haines’ Bluff. The Feds., after sanguinary conflicts, carried the first and second lines of defence and advanced within 2½ miles of the city, where they were defeated and compelled to withdraw, with a loss of 600 killed, 1,500 wounded and 1,000 missing.
28. The trestle-work at Muldraugh’s Hill, defended by the 71st Ind., captured and destroyed by rebels under Gen. Morgan after 6 hours’ fight.
28. New Madrid, Mo., evacuated by Unionists, after destroying the barracks and magazine.
28. Skirmish near Suffolk, Va. Col. Gibbs’ troops routed rebel cavalry.
28. Van Buren, Ark., with a rebel garrison of 120 men, 6 steamboats, and a large amount of ammunition and stores was captured by Gen. Blunt’s army, with slight loss.
28. Major Foley with 250 of the 6th and 10th Ky. cavalry, surprised a rebel camp at Elkford, Campbell Co., Ky. 30 rebels killed, 176 wounded, 51 prisoners, and 80 horses taken.
28. Skirmish near Clinton, La. Stuart’s reb. cavalry defeated by a National force.