23–27. Gen. Ellet’s Maine Brigade made a successful expedition up the Tennessee river, destroying the towns of Hamburg and Eastport, and a large stock of war material. The rebels were defeated in an attack on the vessels while returning, losing 10 killed and 20 wounded. Federal loss, 2 killed, 4 wounded.
24. Skirmishing near Suffolk, Va.
24. Unionists defeated at Beverly, Va.
25. Rebel shore batteries at Duck river shoals, Tenn. river, silenced by gunboats. 25 rebels killed and wounded.
25. Fight at Greenland Gap, Va. Rebels severely punished by 23d Illinois, Capt. Wallace.
26. 30 rebel cotton-gins and mills and 350,000 bushels of corn destroyed by a raid to Deer Creek, Miss.
26. Cape Girardeau, Mo., attacked by Marmaduke’s rebels, who were defeated with heavy loss by Gen. McNeil’s troops. Rebel loss 40 killed and 200 wounded.
26. Gen. Burnside assumed command of the Department of Ohio.
27. A body of Texan Rangers were attacked 8 miles from Franklin Tenn., by 700 Federal cavalry under Col. Watkins, of the 6th Kentucky, who defeated them, capturing 200 prisoners.
27. The steamship Anglo Saxon, from Liverpool, wrecked 4 miles off Cape Race, with 360 passengers, and a crew of 84. Only 190 persons saved.