3–5. A series of battles near Corinth, Miss. A reb. army of 38,000 men under Price, Van Dorn, and Lovell, attacked Rosecrans’ army, under Gens. Ord, Hurlbut, and Veatch. Rebs. routed with heavy loss of k. and w., and 1,000 pris. National loss also heavy.
4. Richard Howes, inaugurated rebel governor of Kentucky, at Frankfort.
4. A fight near Bardstown, Ky. Fed. advance guard under Maj. Foster, defeated by rear-guard of Polk’s army.
4. A company of the 54th Pa. captured at Paw-Paw, on the Balt. and Ohio railroad.
4. Fed. cavalry under Col. M’Reynolds, captured a rebel camp near the above place, with 2 guns, 10 wagons and 60 horses.
5. Gen. Price’s rebel army, retreating from Corinth, Miss., were overtaken by Gens. Old and Hurlbut at the Hatchie river, where, after 6 hours’ fighting, the rebels broke in disorder, leaving their dead and wounded, 400 prisoners, and 2 batteries.
5. Skirmish 6 miles north of Glasgow, Ky. Feds. under Col. Bruce, routed a rebel force, taking a number of horses and cattle.
5. Jacksonville, Fla., occupied by Union forces under Gen. Brannan.
6. A mob in Blackford Co., Ind., destroyed the enrolling papers and draft boxes.
6. A rebel battery at Cockpit Point, Va., on the Potomac, destroyed by a Fed. gunboat.