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.