14. Assault on Port Hudson by Gen. Banks’ troops, in which they were repulsed with heavy loss.
14. Capture of Winchester, Va., by reb. troops. Defeat of Gen. Milroy’s army, who lost 2,000 men, and all his artillery and stores.
14. English and Austrian consuls sent away from Richmond, Va.
14. Rebel raid upon Maysville, Ky.
15. President Lincoln calls for 100,000 men for six months from Pa., Md., W. Va., and Ohio, to resist invasion, which were promptly furnished.
15. Enrollment resisted in Boone Co., Ind.
15. The rebel troops who attacked Maysville were overtaken; their plunder and one hundred prisoners taken.
15. Rebel troops entered Chambersburg, Pa.
17. Severe cavalry skirmish near Aldie, Loudon Co., Va., in which the rebels were defeated with loss, and eighty-five taken prisoners.
17. Capture of rebel iron-clad ram Fingal, or Atlanta, by monitors Weehawken and Patapsco, in Warsaw Sound, S. C., 180 prisoners taken.