6. Brig.-Gen. R. L. McCook died in the Fed. camp near Deckard, Tenn., from wounds received from guerrillas while in an ambulance.
6. Fed. troops under Gens. Gibbon and Cutler encountered Stuart’s reb. cavalry 7 miles beyond Mattapony river, Va. 72 Feds. taken prisoners. The Union forces destroyed several bridges and considerable reb. stores.
Aug. 6. Skirmishes near Tazewell, Tenn. Col. De Courcey’s Union troops repulsed a reb. force.
7. Battle near Fort Fillmore, N. Mex. Col. Sibley’s reb. troops were defeated by Unionists under Col. Canby.
7. Reb. cavalry under Capt. Faulkner, surprised near Trenton, Tenn., by 2d Ill. cavalry. Reb. loss 20 killed and 30 wounded.
7. Reb. Col. Porter defeated near Kirkville, Mo., by 1,000 Feds, under Col. McNeill.
7. Fight in Dodd Co., Mo. Maj. Montgomery’s Feds. defeated rebs. under Col. Coffin. Reb. loss, 11 killed, 4 wounded, and 17 prisoners.
7. Skirmish at Wolftown, near Madison C. H., Va.
7. Malvern Hills, Va., abandoned by Gen. Hooker’s Fed. troops.
9. 26 reb. prisoners shot at Macon City, Mo., for violating their parole.