31. Six reb. prisoners ordered to be executed by Gen. Butler, at N. O., for violating their parole.
31. Battle of Fair Oaks, Va. General Casey’s division, after a gallant resistance were overwhelmed by the reb. army. At night the rebs. occupied the camps of the 4th corps, but their advance was broken. Gens. Couch, Heintzelman, Kearney, Richardson, and Sedgwick, arrived on the field at night with reinforcements.
June 1. Col. Elliott with the 2d Ohio cavalry, returned to Corinth, Miss., from a successful raid on the Mobile and Ohio railroad. He burned 2 locomotives and 20 cars loaded with supplies, destroyed 10,000 muskets, and captured 2,000 prisoners.
1. Gen. Dix assigned to command Fortress Monroe and vicinity.
1. Rebel fortification at Pig Point, Va., destroyed.
1. Skirmish between Strasburg and Staunton, Va., between Gen. Fremont and Gen. Jackson’s troops, with but slight results. Fed. loss about 12, mostly woun’d.
1. The reb. army renew the attack on the Fed. forces at Fair Oaks, Va., when the enemy were defeated and driven from the field, with a loss of 8,000 killed and wounded. Fed. loss 5,739.
1. Gen. Wool promoted to a Maj. Generalship U. S. army.
1. Two boats’ crews from the U. S. bark Kingfisher captured on the Ocilla river, Florida.
1. Skirmish near Strasburg, Va., by Col. Cluseret’s Fed. troops and Ashby’s cavalry.