11. U. S. steamer Hatteras, Lieut. R. G. Blake, sunk off Texas, by rebel steamer Alabama. 100 of the Fed. crew captured.
11. Steamer Grampus, No. 2, at the mouth of Wolf river, Tenn., captured and burned by 13 rebels.
11. Arkansas Post, Fort Hindman, on the Ark. river, captured by Admiral Porter’s squadron and Gen. McClernand’s army. Fed. loss, nearly 1,000 in killed, wounded and missing. Reb. loss, 550 killed and wounded, and 5,000 prisoners.
12. The brig J. P. Ellicott captured by rebel privateer Retribution, and put in charge of a prize crew. The wife of the mate of the Ellicott succeeded in getting the rebels intoxicated, put them in irons, piloted the vessel to St. Thomas, and delivered her and the prisoners to the U. S. Consul.
12. A rebel raid upon Holly Springs, Miss.
13. Gunboat Major Slidell and 3 boats with wounded troops captured by guerrillas on the Cumberland river, the wounded robbed, and all but one of the boats burned.
14. Four Union gunboats under Com. Buchanan, assisted by Gen. Weitzel’s troops, engaged the rebel iron-clad gunboat Cotton, aided by Col. Gray’s soldiers, on the Bayou Teche, La. The Cotton was destroyed after several hours’ combat. Commodore Buchanan was killed.
14. The steamer Forest Queen was burned by guerrillas at Commerce, Miss.
14. The Fed. gunboat Queen of the West, Col. Charles E. Ellet, was captured on the Red river near Gordon’s Landing.
15. Mound City, Ark., burned by Fed. troops.