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.