28. The 8th Ill., Col. Clendenin, returned to the army of the Potomac from an expedition on the banks of the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers, below Fredericksburg, Va., having destroyed one million dollars of property, and brought into camp 810 negroes.
28. Wolford’s Fed. cavalry defeated near Somerset, Ky.
28. Skirmish near Doniphan, Mo. 13th Ill. cavalry, Major Lippert, defeated with loss of 80 of their number in killed, wounded, and missing.
29. Skirmish by 1st Vt. cavalry with Stuart’s cavalry, near Thoroughfare Gap, Va.
30. Rebel Col. Mosby, with 200 cavalry, after destroying a Government train at Catlett’s Station, Va., was overtaken near Greenwich by Col. Maur, of the 7th Mich. cavalry with N. Y. and Vt. troops, and dispersed with the loss of their cannon. Fed. loss, 17 killed and wounded.
30. A train of 16 cars from Alexandria, Va., was destroyed by rebel guerrillas near Warrenton Junction.
30. A rebel camp near Carthage, Tenn., surprised by the 26th Ohio, who captured 22 prisoners and 35 horses.
30. The town of Tappahannock, Va., captured by Fed. gunboats, who destroyed rebel stores.
31. Guerrillas defeated with the loss of 10 men by militia in Lincoln Co., Mo.
31. Fed. gunboat Alert exploded and sunk at Norfolk, Va.