1. Engagement at Hanover Junction, Pa., between Gen. Pleasanton’s Fed. cavalry and Gen. Stuart’s forces. Rebs. defeated.
2. Skirmish at Bottom’s Bridge, Va.
2–3. Defeat of rebel Gen. Lee’s army, near Gettysburg, Pa., by Gen. Meade’s army, after a sanguinary conflict, in which 40,000 men were k. or w.
4. Surrender of Vicksburg, Miss., to Gen. Grant, with 30,000 men, under Gen. Pemberton, and a large supply of arms and ammunition. The rebel army was paroled.
4. Assault on Helena, Ark., by rebel Gens. Marmaduke, Price and Holmes, with 6,000 men, who were signally defeated by Gen. Prentiss’s garrison, who took 1,000 prisoners, and killed or wounded 500 of the enemy.
3–10. Raid of Gen. Morgan into Ind., destroying a large amount of property.
5. Rear-guard of Gen. Johnston’s army, numbering 4,000 men, captured by Gen. Grant’s forces, near Bolton, Miss.
5. Vallandigham arrives at Halifax.
5. Raid from Newbern to Warsaw, N.C.
7. Great excitement in Louisville. Morgan said to be coming.