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.