29. A party of blockade runners taken at Poplar creek, Md.
29. Sixth Ill. cavalry, Col. Loomis, surprised by rebs. under Col. Richardson, near Somerville, Tenn. Fed. loss 40 in k. or w. Rebs. driven off.
30. Battle near Somerset, Ky. Fed. troops under Gen. Gillmore defeated Pegram’s army of 2600, after a battle of 4 hours. Reb. loss 350. 400 cattle taken.
30. Washington, N. C., was attacked by rebels under Hill and Pettigrew. The Fed. pickets and skirmishers driven in with loss, and the rebels driven out of range afterwards by Fed. gunboats.
30. 700 rebels, under Gen. Jenkins, captured Point Pleasant, W. Va., but were subsequently driven out, losing 12 killed and 14 prisoners. Fed. loss 1 killed and 1 wounded.
30. Richmond, Miss., occupied by Gen. McClernand’s Fed. troops, after sharp skirmishing.
31. Gen. Herron appointed to command the army of the frontier.
April 1. Admiral Farragut, with the National gunboats Hartford, Switzerland and Albatross, engaged the rebel batteries at Grand Gulf, Miss., and passed them without serious loss.
1. Severe fight at Dranesville, Va., between 1st Vt. cavalry, and Capt. Mosby’s rebel troops. Feds. defeated with a loss of 60 in killed, wounded, and pris.
1. The town of Palmyra, Tenn., burned by a Fed. gunboat, Capt. Fitz.