11. Morgan burns railroad bridge at Vienna, Ind.
11. Repulse of Gen. Gilmore’s forces assaulting Fort Wagner, S. C.
12. Col. Hatch’s 2d Iowa cavalry defeated a body of rebel cavalry near Jackson, Miss. Fed. loss, 13 killed and wounded. Rebel loss, 175 killed and wounded, and 400 conscripts released.
12. Morgan gets into Ohio.
12. Martial law in Cincinnati, Newport and Covington.
12. Fight at Jackson, Miss.
13–17. Great Draft Riot in New York. 25 or 30 buildings destroyed. The Tribune office assailed. Colored Orphan Asylum burned, several negroes killed, and 120 stores and dwellings were sacked by the mob. The city railroads were stopped, and all the principal factories and shops compelled to suspend work for several days. The disturbance was quelled by the military and police, after 25 of the military and officers were killed or seriously wounded, and 150 of the rioters.
12. Gen. Laumann’s division of Gen. Sherman’s army corps incautiously advanced to an exposed position in front of the rebel works at Jackson, Miss., and lost 300 men in killed and wounded.
12. Yazoo City taken by Fed. troops.
12. Union defeat at Bayou Lafourche, La. 210 taken prisoners.