2. Gen. Sedgwick’s corps of the Army of Va. attacked the reb. works on the heights, in the rear of Fredericksburg, and carried them after a desperate struggle, in which the Fed. loss was over 2,000 in killed and wounded.
2. Marmaduke’s reb. army overtaken by Gen. McNeill at Chalk Bluff, on the Ark., and driven into Ark.
2. Col. Grierson’s cavalry arrived at Baton Rouge, La., after a raid of 15 days through Miss., defeating the rebs. in several encounters.
2. Artillery skirmish on the Nansemond river, Va., by Gen. Getty’s troops and reb. forces.
2–3. Battle of Chancellorsville, Va. The army of Gen. Lee attacked the Fed. forces under Gen. Hooker, and after a series of sanguinary contests, the Union army was compelled to retire, and recrossed the Rappahannock. Very heavy loss on both sides.
2–7. Great Fed. cavalry raid within the rebel lines, from Gloucester Point, Va., on the south, and the Alleghany ridge on the west. Many bridges, and an immense quantity of telegraph lines throughout the route, were destroyed, and many prisoners, and 1,000 horses taken.
3. Col. Streight, with 1,500 Fed. troops, after inflicting serious loss to the enemy, by a raid of 20 days through Georgia, and Alabama, was captured near Gadsder, Ala.
3. Skirmish near Suffolk, Va. 13th N. H., and 89th N. Y., captured reb. rifle pits.
3. Gen. Mosby’s reb. cavalry attacked Col. de Forest’s cavalry at Warrentown Junction, and were defeated by the latter with heavy loss.
3. Fed. gunboats repulsed in an attack on Haines’s Bluff, on the Miss. Several of the vessels badly damaged, and 80 of their men killed and wounded.