12. The Legislature of Kentucky authorized the Governor to call out the State military to repel the Southern invaders.
12. Two slaves, the property of T. L. Snead, a secessionist of St. Louis, were manumitted by Gen. Fremont.
13. A large body of rebels, under Col. Brown, were repulsed from Booneville, Mo., with a loss of 12 killed and 30 wounded, by Home Guards under Capt. Eppstein, who lost 1 killed and 4 wounded.
12–14. Two engagements occurred on Cheat Mountain, Western Va., in which the rebels, under Gen. R. E. Lee, were defeated with a loss of 100 killed and wounded, among the former, Col. J. A. Washington, and 20 prisoners. The Federal forces, under Gen. J. J. Reynolds, lost 13 killed, 20 wounded, and 60 prisoners.
13–18. The provost-marshal of Baltimore, Md., arrested Mayor Brown, Ross Winans, and Messrs. Pitts, Sangster, Wallis, Scott, Dennison, Quinlan, Lynch, Warfield, Hanson, and J. C. Brune, of the Legislature, also editors Howard and Hall, by order of the War Department.
13. An expedition from the U.S. frigate Colorado, under Lieut. J. H. Russell, cut out and destroyed the privateer Judah, under the rebel guns at Pensacola. The Federal loss was 3 killed and 15 wounded.
14. A rebel camp near Kansas City, Mo., was broken up; 7 men killed and 6 taken prisoners.
18. Col. F. P. Blair, Jr., was arrested at St. Louis for disrespectful language when alluding to superior officers.
15. A body of rebels attacked Col. Geary’s 28th Pennsylvania regiment, stationed on the Potomac, three miles above Harper’s Ferry, and were repulsed with severe loss. One of Col. Geary’s men was killed, and several slightly wounded.
16. A naval expedition from Hatteras Inlet under command of Lieut. J. Y. Maxwell, destroyed Fort Ocracoke, on Beacon Island, N. C.