28. The steamer Caroline captured off Mobile, Ala., by U. S. steamer Montgomery.
28. Gen. Herron, with 1,000 men attacked a Confederate camp near Fayetteville, Ark., under Col. Craven, routing them with a loss of 8 killed and their camp equipage.
28. A company of reb. cavalry captured near Cotton Creek, Fla., by Union troops.
28. The bark Lauretta, of N. Y., captured and burned by the Alabama.
29. Skirmish 5 miles from Petersburg, Va. Lieut.-Col. Quirk routed a detachment of Stuart’s reb. cavalry, capturing 16 men and 200 cattle.
29. Fight near Butler, Bates Co., Mo. 1st Kansas (colored), Col. Seaman, defeated reb. guerrillas under Cockerill, with a loss of 30 killed and wounded. Union loss, 8 killed, 10 wounded.
29. Maj. Keenan, 8th Pa. cavalry captured 100 rebs. while on a scout in the Shenandoah valley, Va.
29. Ship Alleghanian, of New York, burned on the Rappahannock river, Va., by rebels.
30. Maj.-Gen. O. M. Mitchell, Commander of Department of the South, died at Beaufort, S. C.
30. Skirmish at Thoroughfare Gap, Va. 1st N. J. cavalry, Col. Wyndham, engaged a rebel force with slight loss.