Pictorial history of the war for the Union, volume 2 (of 2)

by Ann S. Stephens

1862.

May 7. A detachment of the 13th Ind., Col. Foster, was led into an ambush at Somerville Heights, Va., by a superior force of rebels of the 7th Louisiana. After a severe skirmish, Col. Foster made an orderly retreat, with the loss of 29 men, inflicting equal loss to the enemy.

7. The 23d Ohio, Maj. Canley, drove a rebel force from Giles’s Court House, and the narrows of New river, W. Va., and captured 20 prisoners and some stores.

8. Skirmish near Corinth, Miss., by the 7th Ill. cavalry, Maj. Arlington, in which their commander was killed. 4 Federals wounded. Rebel loss 30.

8. The iron-clad steamer Galena, assisted by the gunboats Aroostook and Port Royal, attacked and silenced two rebel batteries a short distance from the mouth of the James river, Va., called the Upper and Lower shoal batteries. But trifling damage was experienced by the Federal vessels, and no casualties.

8. A reconnoissance in force was made by the united forces of Gens. Schenck and Milroy, near McDowell, W. Va., with 2,300 men, to check the advance of a superior force of rebels then threatening to attack them. An engagement of 5 hours’ duration ensued, in which 30 of the Feds. were killed and 200 wounded. The loss of the enemy is computed to have been greater. The movement was successful in checking the advance of the rebs., and the Fed. force was safely withdrawn to Franklin, the rebels showing no disposition to renew the combat.

8. An address was issued to the democracy of the U. S. setting forth party organization as essential to the preservation of public liberty. It was signed by Messrs. Richardson, Knapp, and Robinson, of Ill.; Law and Voorhees of Ind.; White, Allen Noble, Morris, Pendleton, and Vallandigham, of Ohio; Ancona and Johnson, of Penn., and Shields, of Oregon.

8. A bill passed by the U. S. Senate, establishing Beaufort, S. C., as a port of entry.

9. Two guerrillas were hung at Chester, W. Va., in conformity with orders based on a proclamat’n of Gen. Fremont.

9. Gen. Hunter proclaimed the persons in the States of Ga., Fa., and S. C., heretofore held as slaves, “forever free.”

9. Burning Springs, W. Va., was burned by rebel guerrillas.

9. Pensacola, Fla., evacuated by the rebs. after setting fire to forts, navy yard barracks and Marine hospital.

9. Capt. Connet and 48 men of the 27th Ind., were captured 12 miles from Athens, Ala., by a superior cavalry force under Col. Woodward. 13 rebs. and 5 Feds. were killed.

9. At Farmington, 5 miles N. W. of Corinth, Miss., the rebs. in great force under Ruggles, Price and Van Dorn, attacked Plummer’s and Palmer’s brigades, attached to Maj.-Gen. Pope’s division, and compelled them to retreat. A brilliant cavalry charge was made by the 2d Iowa, who lost 90 horses, 2 men killed and 40 wounded. The entire Fed. loss was about 40 killed and 120 wounded. The reb. loss was much greater.

9. The prize steamer P. C. Wallis, while on the way from Ship Isl. to N. O., with a battery of artillery on board, sprung a leak and sunk. The crew were saved by the gunboat Saxon.

9. Two recruits for the Fed. army at Washington, N. C., assassinated by rebs.

9. A company of rebs. under Capt. Walker, attempted to surprise Fed. officers at Washington, N. C. Capt. Redding’s company of 24th Mass., acting as pickets, killed Capt. Walker and 5 men. No Feds. were injured.

10. A spirited naval engagement occurred on the Miss. above Fort Wright. The Fed. gunboats besieging that place, under the command of Acting-Flag-Officer Davis, were attacked by the rebel gunboats and rams then stationed at that post, who after a half hour’s contest were forced to retire. The Fed. gunboats Cincinnati and Mound City were badly injured in the contest, and the reb. vessels also were considerably cut up, though the casualties on either side were small.

10. White House, on the Pamunkey river, Va., occupied by Federal cavalry, 7,000 bushels of wheat and 4,000 of corn captured.

10. $800,000 in specie seized by Gen. Butler in New Orleans, at the office of the Consul for the Netherlands.

May 10. New Kent C. H., Va., occupied by Gen. Stoneman’s Fed. cavalry.

10. The iron-clad steamer Ironsides was launched at Philadelphia.

10. The reb. schooner Maria Theresa, was captured by the U. S. gunboat Unadilla.

10. Norfolk, Va., was occupied by Fed. troops under Gen. Wool.

10. A plot discovered in Paducah, Ky. by which the town was to be handed over to the rebs. within a week. Information was given by one of the conspirators.

11. The fortifications of Craney I., Va., taken possession of by the Nat’l forces.

11. 48 freight and 4 passenger cars, and 2 locomotives were captured by 140 reb. cavalry under Col. Morgan, at Cave City, Ky.

11. Col. Phelan’s reb. camp at Bloomfield, Mo., was broken up by the 1st Wis. cavalry.

11. A reb. lieutenant and 10 men were captured by Maj. Duffie’s command, Harris’ Light cavalry, near Fredericksburg, Va.

11. The reb. iron-plated steamer Merrimac was abandoned by her crew and blown up off Craney Island, Va., the retreat of the rebel forces from Yorktown and Norfolk isolating her from the Confederate forces.

12. The reb. steamer Governor Morton captured.

13. General Fremont, with his command, reached Franklin, W. Va., advancing by forced marches. Maj.-Gen. Halleck issued an order expelling newspaper correspondents from his lines.

13. Martial law enforced in Charleston, S. C.

13. Reb. Gen. Jackson made an unsuccessful attack on Gens. Milroy and Schenck’s brigades near McDowell, Va., Fed. loss 20 killed and 177 wounded. Reb. loss 40 killed, 200 wounded. Feds. lost their camps, baggage, and stores.

13. Reb. armed steamer Planter, was run out of Charleston, S. C., by a negro crew, and surrendered to Commander Parrott, of the steamer Augusta.

13. Suffolk, Va., occupied by Federal troops under Maj. Dodge.

13. Gen. Butler forbid the opening of churches on the 15th inst. in N. O., for the purpose of observing a fast day prescribed by Jeff. Davis.

13. Attack on Fort Wright, Miss. river, by reb. mortar and gunboats.

13. Slight skirmish near Monterey, Tenn., by Gen. Smith’s troops. Reb. loss 10; Union 2.

13. Natchez, Miss., surrendered to flag-officer Farragut.

14. A skirmish near Trenton Bridge, N. C. Col. Amory with 17th and 25th Mass. defeated a reb. force, killing 10 of them.

14. Rebel steamer Alice captured in Roanoke river by U. S. steamers Ceres and Lockwood.

14. A party consisting of four officers’ servants and several convalescent soldiers, in charge of Surgeon Charles Newham, 29th N. Y. V., when on the road to Moorfield, were attacked while passing through a gap on Lost river, near Wartonsville. With the exception of Dr. Newham, who, though severely wounded succeeded in cutting his way through, the whole party were either killed or taken prisoners.

15. The Fed. iron battery Monitor, together with the mailed gunboats Galena and E. A. Stevens, attacked Fort Darling, on Watches Bluff, 6 miles below Richmond, on the James river. The fight continued for four hours, when the ammunition of the Galena having become exhausted, the Fed. vessels retired. The Galena was badly damaged, and lost 17 men killed and about 20 wounded. The large rifled gun of the E. A. Stevens burst early in the action. All the vessels engaged under great disadvantage in not being able to obtain sufficient elevation of their guns to bear on the high bluffs occupied by the enemy.

15. A company of infantry from Gen. Geary’s command were attacked by a body of rebel cavalry. Fed. loss 17.

15. Slight skirmish near Batesville, Ark., by 5th Ill. cavalry, Lieut. Smith.

16. U. S. steamer Oriental wrecked near Cape Hatteras, N. C.

16. Reb. newspapers suppressed in N. Orleans by Gen. Butler, and the circulation of Confederate notes prohibited.

16. Skirmish near Trenton, N. C. U. S. cavalry attacked a detachment of rebs. in ambush, and scattered them, killing 6 or 8, and wounding a larger number. Maj. Fitzsimmons of the cavalry wounded, and Lieut. Mayes and four men taken prisoners.

17. A successful movement was made by a portion of Gen. W. T. Sherman’s division of the army investing Corinth, by which the rebs. were driven from their position at Russell’s House, two miles from Corinth. 12 of the rebel dead were left on the field, but all their wounded were removed. Gen. M. L. Smith’s brigade, of the Fed. army, lost 10 killed and 31 wounded.

17. Gen. Carleton’s brigade entered Arizona; Col. West’s regiment arrived at Luczon; and raised the National flag over the ruins of Fort Breckinridge.

17. The advance of the Army of the Potomac reached Bottom’s Bridge on the Chickahominy river.

18. Engagement near Searey, on Little Red river, Ark. 150 men of Gen. Osterhaus’s troops engaged and defeated a superior force of the enemy, in which the latter lost about 100 men.

18. A fight near Princeton, Va., in which Gen. Cox’s troops were defeated, with a loss of 30 killed and 70 wounded, by a rebel force under Humphrey Marshall.

18. Suffolk, Va., occupied by Feds.

19. The Army of the Potomac resumed its march from Cumberland across the Peninsula towards Richmond.

19. White House, on the Pamunkey, selected as the general depot of supplies for the Army of the Potomac.

19. Gens. Heintzelman and Keys, with 40,000 men, marched for Bottom’s Bridge, on the Chickahominy.

19. Gen. McClellan, with his main army, reached Tunstall’s Station.

19. A skirmish near Newbern, N. C. Fed. loss 5; reb. 11.

19. Lieut. Whitesides and 8 men of the 6th cavalry, captured a train of reb. Gen. Whiting’s, with 100 mules and 8 negroes.

19. John T. Monroe, Mayor of N. Orleans, and other city officers, arrested by Gen. Butler and sent to Fort Jackson.

19. Pres. Lincoln, by proclamation, declared null and void general order No. 11 of Maj.-Gen. Hunter, commanding at Hilton Head, S. C., and dated May 9, in which he pronounced the slaves of the States of Georgia, Florida and South Carolina “forever free.” The President asked the serious consideration of the States interested, to the resolution of Congress of May 6, 1862, offering to aid any State which should adopt a gradual abolition of slavery.

19. Typhoid and bilious fevers raging among the Fed. soldiers at Norfolk, Va. Deaths about 10 daily. The steamer Vanderbilt took 500 of the sick from Yorktown to Baltimore.

19. A boat from the Wachusett, manned by 6 officers and 12 men, with a flag of truce conveying a surgeon on shore, who had been sent a short distance above City Point, on the James river, Va., was fired on by a party of 20 or 30 rebs. while the surgeon and other officers were on shore. Three of the men in the boat were killed, and 2 wounded; while the party who had landed were made prisoners, and sent to Richmond.

20. Edward Stanley, of N. C., received a Fed. commission as Military Governor of that State.

20. Skirmish near Moorfield, Va. A party of soldiers under Lieut.-Col. Downey, captured 12 and killed 4 guerrillas.

20. 17 wagons and 86 mules with government stores were captured 20 miles from Rolla, Mo.

20. Reb. works on Cole’s Island, S. C., burned.

20. The advance of Gen. McClellan’s army under Gen. Stoneman, reached New Bridge, on the Chickahominy creek, 8 miles from Richmond, driving in the enemy’s outposts. The enemy had then no forces south of the Chickahominy. Gen. Stoneman lost 1 killed and 3 wounded.

20. Lieut.-Cols. McIlhanny, Rawlings, Thursman, and Davis, four rebel officers, were captured by Brig.-Gen. Totten, while they were about to cross the Missouri river, above Jefferson City, on a mission to stir up rebellion in Missouri.

21. Skirmish near Corinth, Miss., by troops from the 1st and 20th Ky., under Fed. Col. Sedgewick. Union loss 25.

22. Lieut. E. R. Colbarn of the Fed. gunboat Hunchback, commander of the U. S. Naval forces in North Carolina waters, in company with the gunboats Shansun and Whitehead, destroyed several rebel fortifications on the Mehirun and Chowan rivers, and captured 3 or 4 vessels laden with valuable cargoes.

23. The reb. steamer Daniel E. Miller, with military stores and 60 recruits, for Memphis, was captured on the St. Francis river, by the 1st Wis. cavalry, Capt. Daniels, he having a 6-pounder on shore.

23. Col. J. R. Kenly, with the 1st Md. regiment, part of the 29th Penn. reg’t, and a small force of N. Y. cavalry, was attacked at Front Royal, Va., by a large force of rebs. under Gen. Jackson. After brave resistance the Feds. were defeated, and Col. Kenly, with the larger part of the Md. reg’t taken prisoners.

23. Gen. Heath, with 3,000 men, attacked the Fed. force under Col. Crook, at Lewisburg, Va.: after a severe fight the rebs. were routed. Crook’s force numbered 1,300. Fed. loss 10 killed, 40 wounded, and 8 missing. The loss of the enemy much greater. 4 cannon, 200 stands of arms, and 100 prisoners were captured.

May 23. A portion of the 4th Mich. and 5th U. S. cavalry succeeded in crossing the Chickahominy, and getting, unperceived in the rear of four companies of the 5th Louisiana reg’t, which had been drawn toward the creek by the sight of a portion of the Fed. forces on the opposite bank. Many of the rebs. were killed, 15 wounded, and 31 taken prisoners. One Union soldier killed, and 6 wounded.

23. Grand Gulf, Miss., shelled by Fed. gunboats in retaliation for the firing on Fed. transports by a masked battery near that place.

23. Gen. McClellan’s army crossed Bottom’s Bridge on the Chickahominy, and his advance was within 7 miles of Richmond.

24. Two Ga. reg’ts under Gen. Cobb, were attacked near Williamsville, by portions of 4 reg’ts belonging to Gen. Davidson’s brigades, attached to Gen. McClellan’s army before Richmond. The Fed. soldiers drove the rebs. from the town, with considerable loss. Fed. casualties 2 killed and 4 wounded.

24. The 4th Mich. encountered the 5th Louisiana a short distance above New Bridge, on the Chickahominy. 37 rebs. captured, and about 50 killed and wounded. Fed. loss 10.

24. All the railroads in the U. S. claimed by the government for military purposes.

24. The steamer Swan, with 1,000 bales of cotton and 800 bbls. rosin, captured off Cuba by U. S. brig Bainbridge and bark Amanda.

25. Gen. N. P. Banks, with 4,000 men, was attacked at Winchester, at daylight, by about 15,000 rebs. under Gens. Ewell and Johnson. After a spirited resistance Gen. Banks made good his retreat to Martinsburg.

25. A riot in Baltimore, created by the excitement caused on hearing of the defeat and capture of a large part of Col. Kenly’s Md. regiment. Many secessionists who expressed joy at hearing of the misfortune, were roughly handled by the friends of the regiment.

26. After a five hours’ chase the English iron steamer Cambria, with a cargo of stores for the rebs., was captured off Charleston, S. C., by the Fed. gunboat Huron.

26. Col. Cluseret, with the advance brigade of Gen. Fremont’s army, overtook the rebel Gen. Jackson’s forces, in full retreat, on the road from Winchester to Strasburg, Va. 25 of the rebs. were captured. Their killed and wounded unknown. 7 Fed. soldiers wounded.

26. British steamer Patras captured off Charleston, S. C., by U. S. gunboat Bienville.

26. N. Y. and Mass. militia left home for Washington at one day’s notice.

27. The English steamer Gordon, captured off Wilmington, N. C., by the gunboats State of Georgia and Victoria.

27. Gens. Martindale and Butterfield’s brigades engaged and defeated a rebel force of 8,000 near Hanover C. H., Va. Fed. loss 54 killed and 194 wounded and missing. Rebel loss between 2 and 300 killed and wounded, and 500 prisoners.

28. Engagement on the Corinth road, Miss. A reconnoissance by the 10th Iowa, Col. Purcell, of Gen. Halleck’s forces, met and fought a rebel force. Federal loss 25 killed and wounded; 30 reb. dead left on the field.

28. Gens. Denver and Smith of Sherman’s division, and Gen. Veatch, obtained possession of a strong position within 1,300 yards of the rebel lines at Corinth, Miss., giving the Federal army command of the enemy’s lines. Union loss 6 killed, 12 wounded.

29. Capt. Frisbee, commanding a detachment of the 38th Ill. infantry, and the 1st Mo. cavalry, captured, near Neosho, Mo., 2 colonels, 1 lieutenant, a number of guns and revolvers, 15 horses, and a large train of forage and provisions.

29. English steamer Elizabeth, captured off Charleston, S. C., by U. S. gunboat Keystone State.

29. Ashland, Va., occupied by Federal troops, and a large number of cars with valuable rebel stores were captured.

29. Skirmish at Pocotaligo, S. C. Reb. loss about 20 killed and wounded; Union loss 11.

30. Booneville, 24 miles S. of Corinth, Miss., occupied by 2 regiments of Fed. cavalry under Col. Elliott, a large amount of stores destroyed, with depot, engines, and cars, and 200 rebel sick captured and paroled.

30. Capture of Corinth, Miss., by Gen. Halleck’s army. 2,000 rebel prisoners, and large supplies taken.

30. Col. Elliott, with the 2nd Iowa cavalry, by forced marches from Corinth Miss., penetrated the enemy’s lines to Booneville, on the Ohio and Mobile railway. They tore up the track in many places north and south of that point, destroyed the locomotives, and 26 cars laden with supplies for the rebel army. They also took 10,000 stand of arms, 3 pieces of artillery, large quantities of clothing and ammunition, and paroled 2,000 prisoners.

30. On the Winchester road, six miles from Front Royal, Va., a body of Fed. troops attacked a body of rebels, who fled at the first fire, leaving six of their number prisoners, but bearing away their killed and wounded. 1 English 12-pdr., and 12 wagons were captured; and 6 of the 1st Maryland regiment, who were captured in a previous battle at Front Royal, were released.

30. A brigade of National troops, with 4 companies of R. I. cavalry, entered Front Royal, Va., and surprised the 8th La., and 12th Ga. troops, capturing 6 officers and 150 men, killing and wounding 20, and securing 2 engines, 11 cars, and various stores. Fed. loss 8 killed 5 wounded.

30. 13 of the 11th Pa. cavalry captured near Zuni, Va.

31. Skirmish at Neosho, Mo. The 10th Ill. cavalry and 300 militia, under Capt. Richardson, were driven from the town by rebs. and Indians, under Maj. Wright after a slight resistance, and a quantity of plunder obtained by the enemy.

31. Baton Rouge, La., occupied by Federal troops under Gen. Williams.

31. Skirmish near Washington, N. C., by a party of the 3rd N. Y. cavalry, in which reb. cavalry were defeated with a loss of 11. Federal loss, 22 wounded.

31. Six reb. prisoners ordered to be executed by Gen. Butler, at N. O., for violating their parole.

31. Battle of Fair Oaks, Va. General Casey’s division, after a gallant resistance were overwhelmed by the reb. army. At night the rebs. occupied the camps of the 4th corps, but their advance was broken. Gens. Couch, Heintzelman, Kearney, Richardson, and Sedgwick, arrived on the field at night with reinforcements.

June 1. Col. Elliott with the 2d Ohio cavalry, returned to Corinth, Miss., from a successful raid on the Mobile and Ohio railroad. He burned 2 locomotives and 20 cars loaded with supplies, destroyed 10,000 muskets, and captured 2,000 prisoners.

1. Gen. Dix assigned to command Fortress Monroe and vicinity.

1. Rebel fortification at Pig Point, Va., destroyed.

1. Skirmish between Strasburg and Staunton, Va., between Gen. Fremont and Gen. Jackson’s troops, with but slight results. Fed. loss about 12, mostly woun’d.

1. The reb. army renew the attack on the Fed. forces at Fair Oaks, Va., when the enemy were defeated and driven from the field, with a loss of 8,000 killed and wounded. Fed. loss 5,739.

1. Gen. Wool promoted to a Maj. Generalship U. S. army.

1. Two boats’ crews from the U. S. bark Kingfisher captured on the Ocilla river, Florida.

1. Skirmish near Strasburg, Va., by Col. Cluseret’s Fed. troops and Ashby’s cavalry.

3. Maj.-Gen. Robert E. Lee assigned to the command of the rebel army in front of Richmond.

4. Skirmish near Jasper, Tenn. Gen. Negley’s troops routed a large force of reb. cavalry under Gen. Adams, capturing 25, with a large quantity of arms, and killing and wounding 12.

4. Sixteen hundred of Gen. Prentiss’s troops captured at Pittsburg Landing, arrived at Nashville, on parole.

4. Forts Pillow and Randolph, on the Mississippi, were evacuated by the rebs. and occupied by Fed. forces on the ensuing day.

5. The 24th Mass. were attacked from an ambush, near Washington, N. C. 7 men were killed and several wounded.

5. Skirmish at New Bridge, on the Chickahominy, by Gen. M’Clellan’s forces.

5. Sharp skirmish on James Island, S. C., by the “Roundhead” Pa. reg’t and the 8th Michigan with rebels.

6. The 1st N. J. cavalry were caught in an ambush near Harrisonburg, Va., and sustained considerable loss. Col. Windham was captured. Gen. Bayard’s brigade engaged the rebels at that point and defeated them.

6. Engagement between the Fed. gunboats and rams and a reb. fleet in front of Memphis, in which 4 of the latter were sunk or captured, and one escaped. 100 reb. prisoners taken. Fed. loss none. Memphis occupied by Federals.

7. Wm. Mumford, a citizen of New Orleans, was hung for pulling down the American flag from the mint.

7. Bombardment of rebel batteries at Chattanooga, Tenn., by Gen. Negley’s command.

7. Schooner Rowena captured in Stono river by the Pawnee.

8. Lieut. John G. Sprotsden, executive officer of the U. S. gunboat Seneca, was killed by a reb. named George Huston, captain of a band of marauders near Black Creek, Fla. The lieutenant had been despatched with a force of 70 men to arrest Huston and his gang, and had surrounded his house and demanded a surrender, when he was shot by Huston, who was in turn desperately wounded and captured.

June 8. Battle of Cross-Keys, Va., near Port Republic. Gen. Fremont drove Gen. Stonewall Jackson with considerable loss.

8. Skirmish on James Island, S. C., by Col. Morrow’s Federal troops.

9. Battle of Port Republic, Va. Gen. Shields with 3,500 men was attacked by 12,000 rebs. under Jackson. Union troops retreated after severe loss on both sides.

10. Skirmish on James Island, S. C. About 500 rebs. advanced on the Federal lines for the purpose of captur’g pickets, when they encountered the 97th Pa. regiment, and 2 companies of the 45th Pa. The rebs. were defeated, leaving 15 dead and 2 wounded on the field. Fed. loss, 4 killed and 13 wounded.

10. Fed. expedit’n up the White river, when near St. Charles was fired into from mask’d batteries, and the gunboat Mound City received a shot in her boiler which occasioned the destruction of 100 of her crew by scalding, 23 only escaping. The reb. works were captured by the land forces under Col. Fitch, who took 30 prisoners.

10. Baldwin and Guntown, Miss., 24 miles from Corinth, occupied by Federal forces under Gen. Granger, at which places the pursuit of Beauregard’s army from Corinth terminated.

11. Skirmish near Montgomery, Ky. Feds. under Capts. Nicklin and Blood engaged a force of guerrillas, and captured 25 of them, several of their number being killed or wounded. 2 Feds. were killed.

11. A rebel battery of 4 guns captured at James Island, S. C.

12. A rebel cavalry force of 1,400 men, under Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, left Richmond before daylight, by the Charlottesville turnpike, and penetrated the Fed. lines to Hanover C. H., and the White House on the Pamunkey, and then by the way of New Kent C. H., crossed the Chickahominy near Blind Ford, returning to Richmond by the Charles City road. In their foray they were eminently successful. In an engagement with a small force of U. S. cavalry 3 or 4 of the Feds. were killed, and also 2 teamsters. The rebs. captured about 50 prisoners, burned 2 schooners and 40 wagons laden with supplies, destroyed the tents of the U. S. cavalry regiment, and also some hospital stores. The mules attached to the wagons were driven off by the rebs. in their retreat.

12. A fight near Village Creek, Ark. The 9th Ill. cavalry, Col. Brackett, engaged Hooker’s reb. company, and defeated them with the loss of 28 killed, wounded and prisoners. Fed. loss 13 w.

12. A daring but unsuccessful attack was made on a reb. fort on James Island, S. C., by the 79th N. Y., 8th Mich., and 28th Mass., in which the Feds. were defeated with considerable loss.

12. Forty farmers from Conway Co., Ark., came into the Fed. lines at Batesville, and enlisted in the army.

13. A negro settlement on Hutchinson’s Island, S. C., was broken up by a raiding party of 300 rebs. from Fort Chapman.

13. Severe skirmishes in front of Gen. M’Clellan’s lines, from Old Church to Fair Oaks.

13. The reb. transport Clara Dolsen captured on the White river, Ark., by the tug Spitfire.

13. Skirmish on James Isl., S. C. Reb. loss, 17 killed, 8 wounded. Union, 3 killed, 19 wounded.

14. Capt. Atkinson’s company of 50th Ind. captured 6,200 pounds of powder at Sycamore mills, 30 miles below Nashville, Tenn.

15. The battle of Secessionville on James Isl., S. C. The Fed. forces under Gen. Benham, defeated with a loss of 685 men killed, wounded, and prisoners.

15. Skirmish near Fair Oaks, Va., in which an attempt of the rebs. to flank the Fed. lines during a thunderstorm was frustrated.

15. U. S. gunboats Tahoma and Somerset, Lieuts. Howell and English, commanders, crossed the bar of St. Mark’s river, Fla., and destroyed a reb. fort and barracks, driving out the reb. artillerists with 4 or 5 pieces.

17. The U. S. steamers Bienville, Somerset, and Montgomery, have captured several vessels recently on the Fla. coast, laden with stores and munitions for the rebs.

17. An act of Congress passed, forever prohibiting slavery in the territories of the U. S.

18. A reconnoissance of the 16th Mass. from the Potomac army, engaged the enemy in a severe fight with great credit, and a loss of about 25 men in killed and wounded.

18. Maj. Zeley’s troops attacked a band of rebs. near Smithville, Ark., capturing their leader, Capt. Jones, and 14 of his men. 4 rebs. wounded; Feds., 2 killed, 4 wounded.

18. Cumberland Gap, Tenn., occupied by Gen. Morgan’s Fed. troops.

19. Skirmish by the 20th Ind. of the Army of the Potomac, in which great gallantry was shown, and slight loss suffered by the Fed. troops.

19. Reb. schooner Louisa, and two boats laden with rice captured on the Santee river, S. C., by U. S. steamer Albatross.

20. An attack was made by some of Com. Farragut’s fleet on the reb. batteries at Ellis’ Cliffs, on the Miss. river. The enemy’s guns were silenced after a shot from one of them had severely wounded two of the crew of the Sarah Bruin.

20. Pres. Lincoln signed the bill prohibiting slavery forever in the U. S. territories.

21. A series of skirmishes took place at the mouth of Battle Creek, Tenn. Col. Lill’s Fed. troops defeated a body of the enemy with slight loss.

21. Death of Col. Charles Ellet, of the Miss. ram squadron, at Cairo, Ill., of wounds.

21. Skirmish at Fair Oaks, Va.

22. Part of the 16th Ill. cavalry captured a train, 25 prisoners, and 10,000 lbs. bacon, near Coldwater, on the Miss. and Tenn. R. R.

22. 3 men killed and 8 wounded of the 8th Vt., at Algiers, near N. O., by a party of guerrillas who surprised them.

23. Pres. Lincoln made a hurried visit to Gen. Scott, at West Point, N. Y., to confer with him in reference to some important changes in the military departments.

25. Battle of Oak Grove, Va. General Hooker’s forces with a loss of 200 men, defeated the rebs., who suffered more severely.

25. Gen. Pope arrived in Washington, to take command of the Army of Va.

25. Gen. Fremont resigned his command in the U. S. Army.

25. A train of cars on the Memphis and Ohio railroad, with a company of Fed. troops, 80 mule teams, &c., was captured by the rebs. 10 Fed. soldiers were killed, and the cars and engine destroyed.

25. Col. George Crook, with 1,750 men from the 36th, 44th, and 47th Ohio, and the 2d Va. cavalry regiment, returned to his headquarters at Meadow Bluff, Greenbriar Co., Va., after driving 2,000 rebels under Gen. Heth, out of Monroe Co., retaking a large supply of provisions, grain, and forage, which had been seized by the rebs., capturing a number of the enemy, and restoring 100 refugees to their homes.

26. Skirmish on the Appomattox river, Va. 6 of Capt. Rogers’ gunboat fleet engaged reb. batteries, 6 miles from the mouth of the river.

26. 3 reb. gunboats burned on the Yazoo river by their officers, to prevent their capture by the Union ram-flotilla, Lieut.-Col. Ellet, then in pursuit of them.

26. The great series of battles on the Chickahominy, before Richmond, commenced at 2 P. M. by the attack by a large force of rebels on McCall’s division, on the extreme right of McClellan’s army at Mechanicsville. After losing more than 1000 men, the rebels retreated. Fed. loss, 80 killed, 150 wounded.

26. Severe losses had occurred in picket skirmishing on the Chickahominy creek for two weeks previous. 9 Federals were killed on this day.

27. Skirmish on the Amite river, La. 21st Ind. Col. Keith, defeated 2 parties of rebels, after slight skirmishing.

27. Skirmish near Swift Creek bridge, N. C.

27. Battle of Gaines’s Mill, near Richmond, Va. The Federals successfully resisted an attack by the rebel army and made good their retreat.

27. Severe fight near Village Creek, Ark. 9th Ill. cavalry, under Col. Brackett. Fed. loss 2 k. and 31 wounded.

27. The Vicksburg “canal” commenced, intended to isolate that place from the Mississippi river.

28. 5 clergymen imprisoned at Nashville, Tenn. by Gov. Johnson, for refusing to swear allegiance to the U. S. Government.

28. Battle of the Chickahominy, Va. Gen. Porter’s troops bore the brunt of the fighting, the Feds. still successfully retreating.

28. 100 of the Maryland Home Guard were captured at Moorfield, Hardy Co., Va. by rebel troops under Col. Harness, formerly of Ashby’s cavalry. The prisoners were paroled.

28. About $100,000 value of Government stores were destroyed by Federal troops at the White House landing on the Pamunkey river, Va., previous to evacuating that place, to prevent the rebels from seizing the same.

28. Flag-officer Farragut with nine vessels of his fleet ran by the rebel batteries at Vicksburg, through a severe fire, losing 4 men killed and 13 wounded.

June 29. The steamship Ann, of London, with a valuable cargo, was captured in the act of unloading by the U. S. steamer Kanawha, at the mouth of the Mobile Bay, under the guns of Fort Morgan.

29. Battle of Peach Orchard, Va., in which the rebels were repulsed.

29. Battle of Savage’s Station, Va. The Union troops continuing their retreat were attacked. A sanguinary engagement ensued which resulted in heavy loss to both sides.

29. Fight at Henderson, Ky. Andrews’ Mich. battery and Louisville Provost Guard routed a body of rebel guerrillas.

29. Heavy bombardment at Vicksburg, Miss.

30. Bridges at Harrodsburg and Nicholasville, Ky. burned by rebel guerrillas.

30. Battle of White Oak Swamp, Va. which lasted the entire day.

July 1. In response to a proposition from the loyal Governors of the States suggesting the employment of additional military force, President Lincoln called into service 300,000 men, to be apportioned from the several States.

1. Battle of Malvern Hills, the last of the 7 days’ contests, lasting 2 hours. The rebels repulsed at all points. As the Fed. forces neared James river, the Fed. gunboats opened fire, and did great execution. The rebels were driven back discomfitted.

1. Com. Porter’s ram fleet skirmished with the rebel batteries at Vicksburg, Miss.

1. Col. Sheridan, of the 2d Michigan cavalry, commanding 728 men, was attacked by a force of over 4,000 rebs. near Booneville, Miss. An engagement of seven hours’ duration ensued resulting in the total defeat of the rebels, leaving 65 dead on the field. The Federal loss was 41 in killed, wounded and missing.

2. Gen M’Clellan’s army reached Harrison’s Bar on the James river, Va.

2. Gen. Halleck left St. Louis to take position as Gen.-in-chief at Washington.

2. Flag-officer Farragut, with nine vessels of his fleet, passed above the reb. batteries at Vicksburg, Miss., through a severe fire, thus forming a junction with the Fed. fleet of the Upper Mississippi. His loss in the engagement was 4 killed and 13 wounded.

3. The brig Delilah captured by U. S. steamer Quaker City off Hole-in-the-Wall.

3. Skirmish on the James river, Va. Gen. Davidson’s brigade captured 6 reb. guns and a number of prisoners.

3. Commencement of the bombardment of Vicksburgh, Miss. by the combined fleets of Coms. Farragut and Porter.

4. The United States flag waving in every State of the Union.

4. Successful skirmish near Little Red river, Ark. by Fed. troops under Lieut.-Col. Wood.

4. Union pickets defeated in a skirmish at Port Royal Ferry, S. C.

4. The steamers State of Maine and Kennebec left Fortress Monroe with 559 wounded soldiers for New York.

4. 553 reb. prisoners, arrived at Fortress Monroe taken in the late battles near Richmond.

4. 4,600 Fed. prisoners were confined in Richmond, one-fourth of whom were wounded or sick.

4. Skirmish near Grand Haze, on the White river, Ark. by 13th Ill.

4. Reb. gunboat Teazer captured on James river by U. S. steamer Maratanza.

6. A fight at Grand Prairie, near Aberdeen, Ark. Col. Spicely’s infantry defeated reb. cavalry, routing them with great loss.

7. Steamer Emilie captured off Bull’s Bay, S. C. by U. S. steamer Flag and bark Restless.

7. Col. Hovey, with 4 companies of his 53d Ill. regiment, 4 of the 11th Missouri, and a battalion of Ind. cavalry, attached to Gen. Curtis’s army in Ark., routed 2 Texan regiments at a point between Cotton Plant and Bayou Coache. Rebel loss 110 killed, left on the field. Fed. 8 killed, 47 wounded.

8. Pres. Lincoln reviewed the army of the Potomac at Harrison’s Landing, Va.

9. A detachment of 9th Pa. cavalry, 250 strong, under Maj. Jordan, were attacked at Tompkinsville, Monroe Co., Ky., by about 1,200 rebs. under Cols. John Morgan and Hunt. The Pennsylvanians were routed after a fight of 20 minutes, with a loss of 4 killed, 6 wounded and 20 prisoners, including Maj. Jordan. 10 rebs. were killed, and Col. Hunt mortally wounded.

9. Hamilton, N. C., captured by Fed. gunboats and 9th N. Y. volunteers.

9. Gold coin commanded a premium of 17 per cent. in New York, silver 10, and nickel 3 per cent.

10. Ninety rebs. while drilling in an old field between Gallatin and Heartsville, Tenn., were surprised and captured by Col. Boone’s regiment, and taken to Nashville as prisoners.

11. Maj.-Gen. H. W. Halleck appoint’d commander-in-chief of the U. S. army.

11. Skirmish near New Hope, Ky. Fed. troops under Lieut.-Col. Moore, defeated rebel cavalry.

11. Capt. Cohl, with a company of Mo. State Militia, defeated a band of rebels commanded by Col. Quantrell, at Pleasant Hill, in which 6 rebs. were killed and 5 badly wounded. The Fed. loss was 9 killed and 15 wounded; Capt. Cohl being among the wounded.

12. Gen. Curtis’ army arrived in safety at Helena, Ark., on the Mississippi river, having defeated the rebs. in every encounter during a five months’ campaign, and frustrated their attempts to impede his march and cut off his supplies.

12. Fight at Lebanon, Ky. Union troops under Col. Johnson defeated by Morgan’s cavalry, and the town captured by the rebels.

12. Fairmont, Mo., plundered by rebel guerrillas.

13. Skirmish at Rapidan Station, Va., by Fed. troops under Maj. Deems, who destroyed the bridge and defeated a party of rebels.

13. Memphis, Mo. robbed by rebel guerrillas.

13. A reb. force of 2,000 cavalry under Cols. Morgan and Forrest, attacked the 9th Mich., 3d Minn., and Hewitt’s battery under Gen. T. A. Crittenden, at Murfreesborough, Tenn., capturing the entire force. Reb. loss, 30 killed and 100 wounded. Fed. loss, 33 killed, 62 wounded.

14. Cynthiana, Ky., captured by Morgan’s rebel troops, and a small force of Feds., under Capt. Arthur, taken prisoners.

15. Maj. Miller, with 600 men from 10th Ill., 2d Wis., and 3d Mo., attacked a superior force of rebs. under Rains and Coffee, at Fayetteville, Ark., routing them with great loss.

15. Gen. David E. Twiggs died at Augusta, Ga.

15. The reb. iron-clad ram Arkansas, came down the Yazoo river and engaged the Fed. gunboats Carondelet and Tyler, and ram Lancaster. The ram succeeded in escaping to Vicksburg with a loss of 10 killed and 15 wounded, including the commander, Capt. Brown. 22 Federals were killed, and 55 wounded and missing.

15. A large and enthusiastic Union meeting was held in N. Y. city, in which all classes of citizens were fully represented, and a unanimity of purpose expressed to sustain the Government to the fullest extent in putting down the rebellion, and restoring the integrity of the Union.

16. Lieut. Rogers, of the U. S. steamer Huntsville, of the S. Atlantic blockading squadron, reported capturing the British schooner Agnes, with 60 bales cotton and 40 barrels rosin. Also the rebel steamer Reliance, from Dobay bar, Ga., bound for Nassau, with 243 bales Sea Island cotton.

17. Skirmish at Cynthiana, Ky., Capt. Glass’ troops.

17. Gordonsville, Va., occupied by Gen. Pope’s Fed. troops.

17. Adjournment of Congress.

17. Confiscation bill signed by the President.

17. Skirmish near Columbia, Tenn. Lieut. Roberts, of 1st Ky. Union cavalry, kept at bay a superior reb. force in a fight of 6 hours.

18. Twenty-eight men of company A., N. Y. cavalry, were captured at Orange C. H., on the Orange and Alexandria railway, by rebel cavalry under Gen. Ewell.

18. Severe fight near Memphis, Mo. 400 Feds. under Maj. Clopper, defeated a reb. force under Col. Porter. Fed. loss, 15 killed and 30 wounded. Reb. loss, 23 killed besides wounded.

18. The town of Newburg, Ind., robbed by reb. troops under Capt. Johnson.

19. Fifty-three men of 3d Mich. cavalry captured near Booneville, Miss.

19. The reb. Col. Morgan was attacked on Garret Davis’ farm, near Paris, Ky., by Gen. Green Clay and Col. Metcalf, with 1,600 cavalry, and routed with loss.

19. A band of 32 reb. guerrillas crossed the Ohio river from Kentucky to Newburg, Ind., and plundered the hospital and other buildings, recrossing the river before the armed forces in the neighborhood could intercept them.

19. A down train on the Columbia railway, Tenn., when 12 miles below Reynolds Station, was thrown from the track, and Capt. J. Fatrem of the 6th Ohio, and four others killed, and about 30 wounded.

20. Skirmish on James river, Va., by 8th Pa. cavalry, Capt. Keenan.

20. One hundred and forty men of the Harris Light Cavalry, under Col. Davis, penetrated the reb. lines on the Virginia Central railway, 12 miles west of Hanover Junction, destroying the military stores and the railway at Beaver Dam Creek, and returned to Fredericksburg in safety, marching 80 miles in 30 hours.

21. All the militia in the State of Mo. were ordered to be enrolled by Gov. Gamble, subject to the call of Gen. Schofield, for the purpose of destroying the guerrilla bands in the State.

July 21. A band of guerrillas under Capt. Reeves surprised a body of State militia commanded by Capt. Leeper, at Greenville, Wayne county, Mo., many of whom were killed and wounded and the remainder driven from the town.

22. A band of 40 rebels attacked a wagon train at Pittsburgh Landing, Tenn., and captured 60 wagons with army stores.

22. A Union cavalry company fired, by mistake, on a Confederate detachment with a flag of truce returning under a Union escort from Cumberland Gap, Tenn. A lieutenant was killed, and 6 privates wounded. Lieut.-Col. Kregan, commanding the Union escort, and Capt. Lyons, of Gen. Morgan’s staff, were severely wounded. Several Union soldiers were killed and wounded.

22. Reb. steamer Reliance captured by U. S. steamer Huntsville.

22. Maj.-Gen. Sherman took command at Memphis, Tenn. 400 citizens took the oath, and 130 were sent south.

23. Florence, Ala. entered by rebel troops, who burned a large supply of Fed. stores.

23. 60 wagons, laden with commissary stores, were captured by rebels near Pittsburg Landing, Tenn.

23. An unsuccessful attempt was made to sink the reb. ram Arkansas, at Vicksburg, by Col. Ellet, with the Union ram Queen of the West.

23. Fight near Florida, Mo. Fed. cavalry under Maj. Caldwell attacked by rebs. under Col. Porter. Feds. defeated with a loss of 26.

23. An attempt was made by a portion of the rebel prisoners confined at Chicago, Ill., to escape from their guards, who rallied and drove them back, a few only escaping. Several of the prisoners were killed and wounded.

23. A detachment of four companies of Fed. troops, under Maj. Lippert, sent out from Rivas Station by Col. Boyd to intercept the guerrillas who made the raid on Greenville, Mo., met the enemy, and dispersed the band, taking 16 prisoners, and recovered the booty taken at Greenville.

23. Lieut.-Col. Kilpatrick, with part of the N. Y. Harris Light Cavalry, left Fredericksburg, Va., on the 22d, and encountered and defeated a body of rebel cavalry near Carmel Church, on the road to Richmond, whom they defeated, burned their camps and six cars loaded with corn, and broke up the telegraph to Gordonsville. An hour later they routed a large body of Stuart’s cavalry, captured several prisoners and a large number of horses.

23. Gen. James H. Lane, of Kansas, was authorized by the Government to organize an independent brigade in Kansas.

24. Ex-President Martin Van Buren died at his residence at Lindenwold, N. Y., in the 80th year of his age.

24. Rebel raid into Gloucester Point, Va. Citizens impressed, and much property destroyed.

24. Steamer Tubal Cain captured by U. S. gunboat Octarora.

24. Skirmish at Malvern Hill, Va.

24. Skirmish at Coldwater, Miss.

24. Skirmish near Decatur, Ala. Part of 31st Ohio, under Capt. Harman, defeated a rebel force, who lost 10 killed and 30 wounded.

24. Lieut.-Col. Starr, with 80 of 9th Va. cavalry, surprised and captured at Summerville, Va., by rebel cavalry under Maj. Bailey.

25. The steamer S. R. Spaulding arrived at Philadelphia, Pa., with 240 wounded and sick soldiers released from Richmond.

25. 900 paroled wounded prisoners arrived at Fortress Monroe from Richmond.

25. Col. Magoffin, and 35 other rebel prisoners escaped from the military prison at Alton, Ill., by digging a tunnel under the wall. 3 or 4 gave themselves up next day, and several were recaptured.

25. A fight on the Hatchie river, near Brownsville, Tenn., between rebs. under Capt. Faulkner, and cavalry led by Maj. Wallace.

25. 2 companies of Fed. troops under Capt. Davidson, were surprised and captured at Courtland, Ala.

25. Skirmish near Orange C. H., Va. A skirmish party from Gen. Gibson’s Fed. command defeated with a loss of 5 killed, and 12 wounded and prisoners.

26. Dispatch boat Sallie Wood captured by rebels 150 miles above Vicksburg.

26. Attack on Ft. James, on the Ogeeche river, Ga. by Fed. gunboats, repulsed.

27. Richmond, Ky., plundered by rebs. under Col. Morgan.

27. Battle near Bayou Bernard, Cherokee nation, between Col. Phillips’ troops, and rebels under Col. Taylor. The latter defeated with the loss of 125 men and their commander.

28. The office of The St. Croix Herald in St. Stephens, N. B., was visited by a mob and destroyed. It was the only newspaper in New Brunswick that advocated the Union cause.

28. Three rebel clergymen, Messrs. Elliot, Ford, and Baldwin, of Nashville, were committed to jail by order of Gov. Johnson.

28. Col. Guitar of the 9th Missouri Regiment, reinforced by Lieut.-Col. Shaffer and Maj. Clopper of Merrill’s Horse, and Maj. Caldwell of the 3d Iowa cavalry, 650 strong, were attacked at Moore’s Mills, seven miles east of Fulton, Mo., by Cols. Porter and Cobb, with 800 strong. Fed. loss 10 killed, and 30 wounded. The rebs. left 52 dead on the field, and had 100 wounded.

29. Russellville, Ky., attacked by rebs. under Col. Gano, and the Home Guards defeated.

29. Skirmish at Brownsville, Tenn. by Union cavalry under Capt. Dollin, and reb. troops. Feds. captured 11, and lost 4 killed, and 6 wounded. Rebs. lost 10 killed and wounded.

30. Between 400 and 500 rebel prisoners confined in Fort Delaware, Del., took the oath of allegiance.

30. Hon. John S. Phelps, of Mo., the newly appointed military Governor of Arkansas, arrived at St. Louis.

30. Reb. raid into Paris, Ky., under Col. Jo. Thompson.

31. Steamer Memphis captured by U. S. gunboat Magnolia, off Charleston, S. C.

31. 5 men killed, and 4 wounded by shells thrown by the rebs. from the left bank of the James river into the Fed. camp at Harrison’s Landing.

31. Steamer Ocean Queen sailed from Fort Warren, Mass., for James river, with 200 released rebel prisoners.

31. A scouting party seven miles from Luray, in the direction of Shenandoah river, encountered a body of rebel horse, who fled, leaving 5 of their number prisoners, and 1 dead.

31. 250 citizens of Woodville, Rappahannock Co., Va., took the oath of allegiance before Capt. Baird, of Gen. Milroy’s staff. Five refusing to affirm were arrested and sent to Gen. Sigel’s headquarters.

Aug. 1. Artillery skirmishing on James river, Va., near Harrison’s Landing, by reb. batteries and Union gunboat fleet.

1. All the buildings opposite Harrison’s landing, Va., were destroyed by Union troops.

1. Skirmish at Newark, Mo. A company of State troops, under Capt. Lair, were captured by a superior force of rebs. under Col. Porter.

1. Skirmishing near Orange C. H., Va., by Fed. troops under Gen. Bayard.

2. Skirmish at Ozark, Mo. 75 Nationals under Capt. Birch engaged and defeated a rebel party.

2. Skirmish at Orange C. H., Va., by Gen. Crawford’s Fed. troops, who lost 4 killed and 12 wounded.

3. The British propeller Columbia, with a cargo of 12 Armstrong guns, and several thousand Enfield rifles, was captured off the Bahamas by the U. S. gunboat Santiago de Cuba.

3. Alexandria, Mo., pillaged by rebel guerrillas.

3. Skirmish near Cox’s river, Va. The 13th Va. cavalry were attacked by Col. Averill’s Federal troops, and put to flight.

4. Col. Wynkoop’s Fed. troops were defeated in a skirmish near Sparta, Tenn.

4. Skirmish on White river, 40 miles from Forsyth. Capt. Birch’s company of 14th Mo. engaged Col. Lawther’s reb. band. Fed. loss 3 killed 7 wounded.

4. An immediate draft of 300,000 men was ordered by Pres. Lincoln from the militia of the States, for nine months. Also an additional quota by special draft to fill up the ranks of the 300,000 volunteers previously called for, should the same not be enlisted by the 15th of August.

5. Reb. Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, with 5,000 men, attacked Gen. Williams, with 2,500 men at Baton Rouge, La. Rebels defeated. Gen. Williams killed. Fed. loss 250 killed, wounded, and missing. Reb. loss 600.

5. Skirmish at Malvern Hills, Va. Gen. Hooker’s Fed. troops engaged.

5. Skirmish at Point Pleasant, Mo.

6. Skirmish at Monteralla, Mo. Maj. Montgomery’s troops defeated guerrillas.

6. Destruction of rebel ram Arkansas by U. S. gunboat Essex, Capt. Porter, near Vicksburg, Miss.

6. Brig.-Gen. R. L. McCook died in the Fed. camp near Deckard, Tenn., from wounds received from guerrillas while in an ambulance.

6. Fed. troops under Gens. Gibbon and Cutler encountered Stuart’s reb. cavalry 7 miles beyond Mattapony river, Va. 72 Feds. taken prisoners. The Union forces destroyed several bridges and considerable reb. stores.

Aug. 6. Skirmishes near Tazewell, Tenn. Col. De Courcey’s Union troops repulsed a reb. force.

7. Battle near Fort Fillmore, N. Mex. Col. Sibley’s reb. troops were defeated by Unionists under Col. Canby.

7. Reb. cavalry under Capt. Faulkner, surprised near Trenton, Tenn., by 2d Ill. cavalry. Reb. loss 20 killed and 30 wounded.

7. Reb. Col. Porter defeated near Kirkville, Mo., by 1,000 Feds, under Col. McNeill.

7. Fight in Dodd Co., Mo. Maj. Montgomery’s Feds. defeated rebs. under Col. Coffin. Reb. loss, 11 killed, 4 wounded, and 17 prisoners.

7. Skirmish at Wolftown, near Madison C. H., Va.

7. Malvern Hills, Va., abandoned by Gen. Hooker’s Fed. troops.

9. 26 reb. prisoners shot at Macon City, Mo., for violating their parole.

9. Porter’s guerrillas routed by Col. McNeill’s Fed. troops at Stockton, Macon Co., Mo.

9. Battle of Cedar Mountain, Va. Gen. Banks’ corps attacked near the Rapidan river by reb. Gen. Jackson, with superior force. Rebs. repulsed. Fed. loss, 1500, k., w. and pris.

9. U. S. steam frigate Lackawanna launched at Brooklyn, L. I.

9–10. Recruiting very brisk throughout the country. Many fled to Canada and other remote places to avoid being drafted. Traveling restricted, by order of Government, to prevent fugitives from escaping.

10. U. S. steamer Freeborn brought 25 prisoners and 5 sailboats to Washington, D. C. captured while engaged in contraband trade on the Chesapeake.

10. Donaldsonville, La., partially destroyed by men from U. S. sloop Brooklyn.

11. Bayou Sara, La., seized by national troops.

11. Col. Buell, with 7th Mo. cavalry, was defeated at Independence, Mo., by rebels under Col. Hughes, who captured the town.

11. Skirmish 11 miles E. of Helena, Ark. 3d Wis. defeated reb. cavalry under Jeff. Thompson.

11. Part of 11th Ill. cavalry defeated rebs. at Salisbury, 5 miles E. of Grand Junction, Tenn. capturing a captain and 27 horses.

11. Skirmishes near Williamsport, Tenn. Maj. Kennedy’s Fed. troops defeated rebels.

11. Fight near Compton’s Ferry, on Grand river, Mo. Col. Guitar’s Union cavalry defeated rebs. under Col. Poindexter, who lost 100 k. and w. and 200 pris.

11. A skirmish near Reelsville, Calloway Co., Mo. Col. Smart’s Mo. State cavalry routed Cobb’s guerrillas.

11. Skirmish near Kinderhook, Tenn. Col. McGowan’s Union troops defeated Anderson’s rebels, who lost 7 k. and 27 prisoners.

11. Battle at Clarendon, Monroe Co., Ark. Gen. Hovey’s Fed. troops defeated rebels, and took 600 prisoners.

12. The Fed. garrison at Gallatin, Tenn. captured by, Col. J. H. Morgan’s cavalry, who in turn were driven out by Col. Miller’s Fed. troops, who killed 6 rebs. and wounded a number in the charge.

13. Collision on the Potomac river, Va. by steamers Peabody and West Point. 73 lives were lost.

13. Col. Guitar overtook Poindexter’s reb. troops at Yellow Creek, Clinton Co., Mo. and scattered them, taking 60 prisoners.

13. 24th Mass., Gen. Stevenson, with gunboats Wilson and Ellis proceeded from Newbern, N. C., to Swansboro’, and destroyed rebel salt works.

14. Slight skirmish near Helena, Ark.

15. 10 rebel recruits captured in St. Mary’s Co., Md., by Fed. cavalry.

15. Skirmish on the Obion river, Tenn., at Merriwether’s Landing, Col. T. W. Harris’s Fed. troops routed rebs. under Capt. Binfield, who lost 20 k. and 9 prisoners.

16. Cols. Corcoran and Wilcox, Lieut.-Col. Brown and Maj. Rogers, late prisoners, reached Fort Monroe, having been exchanged by the rebels.

16. Lieut. Black and 5 men captured by the rebs. on the Rapidan river, Va.

16. 8 gunboats and rams, under Col. Ellet, with the 57th Ohio and 33d Ind., in transports, left Helena, Ark., this day, sailed down the Mississippi to Milliken’s Bend, where they captured the steamer Fairplay, with arms, &c. for 6000 men. Further captures were made at Haines’ Bluff and at Richmond, La., and property destroyed.

16. Gen. McClellan’s army evacuated Harrison’s Landing, Va., and removed to Williamsburg.

16. Fight at Lone Jack, Mo. 800 State militia under Maj. Foster, engaged a superior rebel force under Col. Coffee. Feds. defeated with loss of 60 k. and 100 wounded. Reb. loss 110 k. and w.

18. The steamers Skylark and Sallie were burned by rebels, and their crews captured, at the mouth of Duck creek, 50 miles above Fort Henry, Tenn. river.

19. Union garrison at Clarksville, Tenn., the 71st Ohio, under Col. Mason, surrendered to a rebel force, under Col. Woodward.

19. Steamer Swallow burned by rebels, 25 miles below Memphis, Tenn.

19. Skirmish near Rienzi, Miss.

19. Maj.-Gen. Wright assigned to command Department of Ohio.

19. Skirmish near Hickman, Mo. Rebs. defeated by cavalry under Capt. Moore. Fed. loss 2 w. Reb. loss 4 k. 19 prisoners.

19. Sioux Indians destroyed U. S. agencies at Yellow Medicine, and Red Wood, and partly destroyed New Ulm, Minn., killing and wounding more than 100 persons.

20. Skirmish at Brandy station, Va. Gen. Pope’s army, retreating to the Rappahannock river, were overtaken by Lee’s forces, and a fight ensued, chiefly an artillery duel.

20. Skirmish at Edgefield Junction, Tenn. Part of 50th Ind. and Col. J. H. Morgan’s reb. cavalry. The latter retreated with a loss of 7 killed and 20 wounded.

20. Skirmish near Union Mills, Mo. A small force of Feds. under Maj. Price were ambushed by rebs. but defeated them, capturing 4 men and 16 horses, and killing one man. Fed. loss 4 killed and 3 wounded.

21. Gen. Pope and Gen. Lee’s armies facing each other on the Rappahannock river. An attempt by the rebs. to cross at Kelly’s Ford was foiled by Gen. Reno’s troops, who attacked them with artillery and cavalry.

21. Reb. schooner Eliza captured off Charleston, S. C., by U. S. steamer Bienville.

21. Union pickets on Pinckney Island, Hilton Head, S. C., were attacked by rebs. who captured 32, killed 3 and wounded 3.

22. Defeat of Gen. Johnson near Gallatin, Tenn. by Morgan’s Confed. cavalry. Fed. loss, 64 killed, 100 wounded, and 200 prisoners, including Gen. Johnson and his staff.

22. Death of Rear-Adm. George Campbell Read, at Philadelphia.

22. Skirmishes near Crab Orchard, Ky. 9th Pa. cavalry, under Gen. G. C. Smith defeated reb. cavalry under Col. Scott.

22. Gen. Stuart’s reb. cavalry penetrated in the rear of Gen. Pope’s army, at Catlett’s Station, Va., destroyed sutler’s stores, sacked the hospital, and captured the wagons and papers of Gen. Pope.

22. Fort Ridgely, Minn. was attacked by a large body of Indians, who were repulsed with great loss. Fed. loss, 3 killed and 30 wounded.

22. Artillery skirmishing along the Rappahannock river, Va., by the armies of Pope and Lee. Gen. Sigel’s corps engaged the enemy with spirit, and inflicted severe loss on the rebs. before they were permitted to cross the river.

23. The U. S. sloop-of-war Adirondack was wrecked on a coral reef near Little Abaco, W. I. The crew saved.

23. The schooner Louisa was captured by the U. S. steamer Bienville, at Charleston, S. C.

23. A train of cars on the Memphis and Charleston railroad attacked by 400 guerrillas 3 miles from Courtland, Tenn., who destroyed the cars. Part of the 42d Ill. was on board. 8 rebs. killed. Fed. loss 2 wounded and 2 missing.

23. Mutiny in Spinola’s Empire Brigade at E. New York. 1 man killed and several wounded.

23. A passenger train was destroyed on the Winchester Va. railroad near Harper’s Ferry. 4 of the 1st Mich. captured.

24. Continuation of artillery battle on the banks of the Rappahannock river, Va., between Pope’s and Lee’s armies. Gen. Milroy’s Fed. brigade suffered severe loss.

24. Skirmish near Lamar, Kansas. Quantrell and Hays’ reb. troops attacked Kansas troops under Maj. Campbell and Capt. Grund. Fed. loss 2 killed and 21 wounded.

24. Reb. schooner Water-witch, captured off Aransas, Texas, by U. S. schooner Corypheus.

24. Skirmish near Dallas, Mo. 12th Mo. cavalry, Maj. B. F. Lazear, defeated Col. Jeffries’ reb. troops with loss.

25. 18 rebs. captured near Mount Sterling, Ky. by Capt. Warren’s Bath County Guards.

25. Maj. Lippert, with 3 companies of 13th Ill. cavalry was attacked by 300 reb. cavalry under Col. Hicks, 36 miles beyond Bloomfield, Mo. Rebs. defeated, 20 killed and many wounded and taken prisoners.

25. Col. Woodward, with a strong force of rebs. attacked Fort Donelson, Tenn. and was repulsed with heavy loss.

25. New Ulm, Minn. was evacuated by the entire population and garrison under Capt. Flaudrau, after fighting the Sioux Indians for two days.

Aug. 25. Skirmish with guerrillas near Danville, Ky., by Danville and Harrodsburgh Home Guards.

26. Skirmish near Madisonville, Ky. A Union force under Col. Foster defeated reb. guerrillas.

26. Fifth Iowa cavalry, Col. Lowe, defeated rebs. under Col. Woodward near Fort Donelson, Tenn. Fed. loss 2 killed and 18 wounded.

26. A large quantity of Government stores were destroyed at Manassas, Va., by reb. cavalry under Fitz-Hugh Lee, who drove the Fed. forces towards Alexandria.

26. Gen. Burnside relinquished command of Department of N. Carolina. He was succeeded by Gen. Foster.

27. Schooner Anna Sophia captured by the gunboat R. R. Cuyler off Wilmington, N. C.

27. Rebs. under Col. Coffee defeated on the Osage river, near Lone Jack, Mo., by Gen. Blunt’s troops.

27. At Waterford, Va., part of Capt. Means’ company of Fed. cavalry was captured by rebs. under Capt. White.

27. Gen Hooker’s division engaged rebs. under Gen. Ewell at Kettle Run, Va., near Bristow’s station, and drove them from the field; loss about 300 on each side.

28. Fight at Readyville, Tenn. The 23d Ky., Col. Murphy, defeated reb. cavalry under Gen. Forrest.

28. $500,000 was assessed on wealthy secessionists at St. Louis, Mo., by Gen. Schofield, for the relief of destitute Unionists.

28. Severe fight six miles west of Centreville, Va. Gens. M’Dowell and Sigel’s troops defeated rebs. under Gen. Jackson, who was driven back with loss, including many prisoners.

28. City Point on the James river, Va., destroyed by Fed. gunboats under Com. Wilkes.

28. Skirmish at Shady Springs, 10 miles from Raleigh C. H., Va. 2d Va. Fed. cavalry, Lieut. Montgomery, defeated reb. cavalry, taking 5 prisoners.

29. Battle at Groveton, Va. The troops of Gens. Hooker, Sigel, Kearney, Reno, and King defeated rebs. under Jackson and Longstreet, with great loss. The fight lasted from dawn till dark.

29. Twelve officers of 71st Ohio dismissed the service for publishing a card stating they had advised Col. Mason to surrender Clarksville, Tenn., to the rebs.

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, defeated rebs. 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. captured at 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 Union gunboats 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 two wagons 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 forces en route for 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 defeated 15,000 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. The True Presbyterian and the Baptist Recorder, of Louisville, Ky., were suppressed, and the editor of the Recorder sent 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 attacked by 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.

30. The Union and Watauga bridges on the E. Tenn. and Va. railroad destroyed by Gen. Carter’s Fed. troops, who defeated a rebel force, of whom 400 were taken prisoners, and 150 k. and w. with slight loss to the Unionists.

30. The iron-clad steamer Monitor, Commander Bankhead, foundered near Cape Hatteras, N. C. 4 officers and 12 of the crew, and also 8 R. I. soldiers were lost with her.

30. Battle at Parker’s Cross Roads, Tenn. A desperate conflict of several hours’ duration between Gen. Sullivan’s troops, and Gen. Forrest’s rebel cavalry, in which the latter were defeated with a loss of 600 in killed, wounded and prisoners. Fed. loss, about 200.

31. Beginning of the Battle of Stone river, or Murfreesboro’. 10 hours continuous fighting without result.

31. Gen. McClernand succeeded Gen. Sherman at Vicksburg and the Fed. army retired to Milliken’s Bend.