11. Maj.-Gen. H. W. Halleck appoint’d commander-in-chief of the U. S. army.
11. Skirmish near New Hope, Ky. Fed. troops under Lieut.-Col. Moore, defeated rebel cavalry.
11. Capt. Cohl, with a company of Mo. State Militia, defeated a band of rebels commanded by Col. Quantrell, at Pleasant Hill, in which 6 rebs. were killed and 5 badly wounded. The Fed. loss was 9 killed and 15 wounded; Capt. Cohl being among the wounded.
12. Gen. Curtis’ army arrived in safety at Helena, Ark., on the Mississippi river, having defeated the rebs. in every encounter during a five months’ campaign, and frustrated their attempts to impede his march and cut off his supplies.
12. Fight at Lebanon, Ky. Union troops under Col. Johnson defeated by Morgan’s cavalry, and the town captured by the rebels.
12. Fairmont, Mo., plundered by rebel guerrillas.
13. Skirmish at Rapidan Station, Va., by Fed. troops under Maj. Deems, who destroyed the bridge and defeated a party of rebels.
13. Memphis, Mo. robbed by rebel guerrillas.
13. A reb. force of 2,000 cavalry under Cols. Morgan and Forrest, attacked the 9th Mich., 3d Minn., and Hewitt’s battery under Gen. T. A. Crittenden, at Murfreesborough, Tenn., capturing the entire force. Reb. loss, 30 killed and 100 wounded. Fed. loss, 33 killed, 62 wounded.
14. Cynthiana, Ky., captured by Morgan’s rebel troops, and a small force of Feds., under Capt. Arthur, taken prisoners.