2. Flag-officer Farragut, with nine vessels of his fleet, passed above the reb. batteries at Vicksburg, Miss., through a severe fire, thus forming a junction with the Fed. fleet of the Upper Mississippi. His loss in the engagement was 4 killed and 13 wounded.
3. The brig Delilah captured by U. S. steamer Quaker City off Hole-in-the-Wall.
3. Skirmish on the James river, Va. Gen. Davidson’s brigade captured 6 reb. guns and a number of prisoners.
3. Commencement of the bombardment of Vicksburgh, Miss. by the combined fleets of Coms. Farragut and Porter.
4. The United States flag waving in every State of the Union.
4. Successful skirmish near Little Red river, Ark. by Fed. troops under Lieut.-Col. Wood.
4. Union pickets defeated in a skirmish at Port Royal Ferry, S. C.
4. The steamers State of Maine and Kennebec left Fortress Monroe with 559 wounded soldiers for New York.
4. 553 reb. prisoners, arrived at Fortress Monroe taken in the late battles near Richmond.
4. 4,600 Fed. prisoners were confined in Richmond, one-fourth of whom were wounded or sick.