5. The 30th Iowa and 29th Wis. attacked by rebs. at Helena, Ark., whom they repulsed, killing 8, and capturing 30.
6. The schr. Medora, with rebel army stores, was captured at Hackett’s Point Md., by Capt. Kearney’s company.
6. A forage train, in charge of 93d Ohio, Col. Anderson, was attacked by rebs. near Lebanon, Tenn., who were driven off.
6. Gen. Banks’ expedition sailed from New York to New Orleans.
7. U. S. mail steamer Ariel captured off Cuba by rebel steamer Alabama, but released on bond for $228,000.
7. Gens. Blunt and Herron defeated 15,000 rebels under Gens. Hindman, Marmaduke, Parsons, and Frost, at Prairie Grove, N.W. Ark. Federal loss, 495 killed, 600 wounded. Confed. loss, 1,500 killed and wounded.
7. The 106th and 108th Ohio, and 104th Ill., under Col. A. B. Moore, were attacked by a rebel force under Gen. J. H. Morgan, at Hartsville, Tenn. After a fight in which 55 of the Feds. were killed, and over 100 wounded, the entire force surrendered to the rebels, who lost about the same number in killed and wounded.
7. 60 of the 8th Pa. cavalry defeated at King George’s C. H., Va. Loss 20.
9. A body of rebels attacked a forage train, under escort, near LaVergne, Tenn., but were repulsed with considerable loss.
9. U. S. steamer Lake City was burned by rebels at Concordia, Ark. In retaliation, the steamer De Soto went to Concordia, and burned 42 houses.