23. A passenger train was destroyed on the Winchester Va. railroad near Harper’s Ferry. 4 of the 1st Mich. captured.
24. Continuation of artillery battle on the banks of the Rappahannock river, Va., between Pope’s and Lee’s armies. Gen. Milroy’s Fed. brigade suffered severe loss.
24. Skirmish near Lamar, Kansas. Quantrell and Hays’ reb. troops attacked Kansas troops under Maj. Campbell and Capt. Grund. Fed. loss 2 killed and 21 wounded.
24. Reb. schooner Water-witch, captured off Aransas, Texas, by U. S. schooner Corypheus.
24. Skirmish near Dallas, Mo. 12th Mo. cavalry, Maj. B. F. Lazear, defeated Col. Jeffries’ reb. troops with loss.
25. 18 rebs. captured near Mount Sterling, Ky. by Capt. Warren’s Bath County Guards.
25. Maj. Lippert, with 3 companies of 13th Ill. cavalry was attacked by 300 reb. cavalry under Col. Hicks, 36 miles beyond Bloomfield, Mo. Rebs. defeated, 20 killed and many wounded and taken prisoners.
25. Col. Woodward, with a strong force of rebs. attacked Fort Donelson, Tenn. and was repulsed with heavy loss.
25. New Ulm, Minn. was evacuated by the entire population and garrison under Capt. Flaudrau, after fighting the Sioux Indians for two days.
Aug. 25. Skirmish with guerrillas near Danville, Ky., by Danville and Harrodsburgh Home Guards.