12. Rebel salt works at Yellville, Ark., destroyed by Federal troops under Capt. M. Birch.
12. Rebs. attacked at Franklin, Tenn., by cavalry under Gen. D. S. Stanley, who drove them from the town, and destroyed mills and other property. Reb. loss, 5 killed, 10 wounded. One Fed. killed.
13. Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. The reb. works were attacked by the National army under Gen. Burnside. It consisted of three grand divisions led by Gens. Sumner, Hooker and Franklin. The Fed. army was repulsed, losing 1,512 killed, 6,000 wounded, and 460 prisoners. The rebels lost 1,800 men.
13. Jeff. Davis reviewed the reb. forces under Bragg at Murfreesboro’.
13. Two regiments of Union infantry and one of cavalry surprised a rebel force at Tuscumbia, Ala., completely routing them and capturing 70 prisoners, their horses and baggage. Federal loss, 4 killed, 14 wounded.
13. Gov. Johnson, of Tenn., assessed disloyal citizens of Nashville in various amounts to be paid in 5 monthly instalments, in behalf of widows and orphans of that city who had been reduced to want in consequence of their husbands and fathers being forced into the rebel armies.
13. Skirmish at Southwest Creek, N. C. Gen. Foster’s troops routed rebels, who lost a number of prisoners and guns.
13. Unsuccessful attack on reb. works on the river, at Kinston, N. C., by small boats under Capt. Murray.
14. Two hundred Feds. under Capt. Thornberry, of 39th Ky., were defeated by 800 rebels at Wireman’s Shoals, 5 miles below Prestonsburg, Ky. Rebs. captured 700 muskets, as many uniforms, and 40,000 rounds of cartridges.
14. The True Presbyterian and the Baptist Recorder, of Louisville, Ky., were suppressed, and the editor of the Recorder sent to prison.