3. Maj.-Gen. Robert E. Lee assigned to the command of the rebel army in front of Richmond.
4. Skirmish near Jasper, Tenn. Gen. Negley’s troops routed a large force of reb. cavalry under Gen. Adams, capturing 25, with a large quantity of arms, and killing and wounding 12.
4. Sixteen hundred of Gen. Prentiss’s troops captured at Pittsburg Landing, arrived at Nashville, on parole.
4. Forts Pillow and Randolph, on the Mississippi, were evacuated by the rebs. and occupied by Fed. forces on the ensuing day.
5. The 24th Mass. were attacked from an ambush, near Washington, N. C. 7 men were killed and several wounded.
5. Skirmish at New Bridge, on the Chickahominy, by Gen. M’Clellan’s forces.
5. Sharp skirmish on James Island, S. C., by the “Roundhead” Pa. reg’t and the 8th Michigan with rebels.
6. The 1st N. J. cavalry were caught in an ambush near Harrisonburg, Va., and sustained considerable loss. Col. Windham was captured. Gen. Bayard’s brigade engaged the rebels at that point and defeated them.
6. Engagement between the Fed. gunboats and rams and a reb. fleet in front of Memphis, in which 4 of the latter were sunk or captured, and one escaped. 100 reb. prisoners taken. Fed. loss none. Memphis occupied by Federals.
7. Wm. Mumford, a citizen of New Orleans, was hung for pulling down the American flag from the mint.