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.