24. Gen. Schofield appointed to supersede Gen. Curtis in command of the Department of the West.
24. Skirmish on the Mississippi river, 6 miles above Austria. Gen. Ellet’s marine brigade defeated a rebel force, who lost 5 killed, 3 prisoners. Union loss 2 killed, 19 wounded.
25. Skirmish near Hartford, Ky.
25. Skirmish at Senatobia, Miss. Col. McCrellis defeated a rebel force, who lost 6 killed and 3 wounded.
26. Col. Wilder’s Fed. regiment defeated Breckinridge’s cavalry near McMinnville, Tenn., and captured a number of prisoners.
25–27. Fed. gunboats under Lt. Walker, after capturing Haines’ Bluff, ascended to Yazoo City, Miss., and destroyed 3 rebel steamers and a large ram, not finished. Also the navy yard and naval stores.
26. Destruction of the U. S. gunboat Cincinnati by rebel batteries at Vicksburg. 35 of her crew killed and w.
27. Gen. Banks’ army defeated in an assault on the reb. works at Port Hudson.
27. Col. Cornyn’s Fed. command defeated Gen. Roddy’s troops at Florence, Ala., capturing 100 soldiers, 300 negroes, 400 mules, and destroying reb. property.
28. First colored regiment from the North left Boston.