5. Reb. cavalry, in force, attack 93 of 3d Tenn. at Panther Springs. Union loss 2 k. 8 wounded, 22 prisoners. Rebel, 30 k. and wounded.
5. Battle in Yazoo City, between 11th Ill. and 8th La., and 4 reb. brigades. Rebs. defeated with considerable loss. Union, killed 6; wounded 20.
6. Gunboat Peterholf sunk off Wilmington, N. C.
6. 23 Union soldiers, captured from Gen. Foster’s command, hung by rebs. at Kinston, N. C.
6. Sherman’s main army at Jackson, commencing to cross Pearl river.
7. Sherman’s cavalry enter Brandon after skirmishing, and camp two miles east.
8. Reb. cavalry driven from camp near Carrolton. Grain mills and stores burned.
9. Sherman at Hillsboro’, N. C.
9. 40 of 30th Pa. cavalry captured by guerrillas at Bristow Station, Va.
9. An outpost of national troops near Suffolk, Va., was attacked by 4 regiments of infantry, a squadron of cavalry, and 2 batteries of artillery, and driven to Baner’s Hill. A column of national troops arrived to the support, and the enemy in turn was attacked, driven back and pursued. Fed. loss 200.