25. Gen. Fremont resigned his command in the U. S. Army.
25. A train of cars on the Memphis and Ohio railroad, with a company of Fed. troops, 80 mule teams, &c., was captured by the rebs. 10 Fed. soldiers were killed, and the cars and engine destroyed.
25. Col. George Crook, with 1,750 men from the 36th, 44th, and 47th Ohio, and the 2d Va. cavalry regiment, returned to his headquarters at Meadow Bluff, Greenbriar Co., Va., after driving 2,000 rebels under Gen. Heth, out of Monroe Co., retaking a large supply of provisions, grain, and forage, which had been seized by the rebs., capturing a number of the enemy, and restoring 100 refugees to their homes.
26. Skirmish on the Appomattox river, Va. 6 of Capt. Rogers’ gunboat fleet engaged reb. batteries, 6 miles from the mouth of the river.
26. 3 reb. gunboats burned on the Yazoo river by their officers, to prevent their capture by the Union ram-flotilla, Lieut.-Col. Ellet, then in pursuit of them.
26. The great series of battles on the Chickahominy, before Richmond, commenced at 2 P. M. by the attack by a large force of rebels on McCall’s division, on the extreme right of McClellan’s army at Mechanicsville. After losing more than 1000 men, the rebels retreated. Fed. loss, 80 killed, 150 wounded.
26. Severe losses had occurred in picket skirmishing on the Chickahominy creek for two weeks previous. 9 Federals were killed on this day.
27. Skirmish on the Amite river, La. 21st Ind. Col. Keith, defeated 2 parties of rebels, after slight skirmishing.
27. Skirmish near Swift Creek bridge, N. C.
27. Battle of Gaines’s Mill, near Richmond, Va. The Federals successfully resisted an attack by the rebel army and made good their retreat.