Sept. 26. An unsuccessful attempt to capture steamer Forest Queen at Ashport, Tenn., by rebs. under Capt. Faulkner.
26. Prentiss, Miss., burned by U. S. ram Queen of the West, in retaliation for firing on that vessel and transports.
27. 34th Ohio, Col. Toland, attacked Col. Jenkins’s reb. cavalry at Buffalo, on the Kanawha river, Va., but were driven off, after killing 7, capturing 9, and destroying the camp, without loss to themselves.
27. Home Guards at Augusta, Ky., captured by rebs. under Basil Duke, after a brave resistance, with loss to the enemy.
27. 91 women and children rescued from Indians by Col. Sibley on Chippeway river, Minn.; 16 Indians captured.
28. Reb. steamer Sunbeam captured by U. S. gunboats State of Georgia and Mystic, off Wilmington, N. C.
28. Skirmish on Blackwater river, 25 miles from Suffolk, Va. Col. C. C. Dodge, with Fed. cavalry and artillery, defeated reb. infantry.
28. Augusta, Georgia, captured by 600 reb. cavalry.
29. Gen. Jeff. C. Davis shot Gen. Wm. Nelson, at the Galt House, in Louisville, Ky., killing him almost instantly.
29. A brigade of Fed. cavalry, under Lieut.-Col. Karge, on a reconnoissance from Centreville, Va., to Warrenton, captured and paroled 1,650 rebels.