8. Surrender of Fort Gaines, Mobile Bay, to Com. Farragut.
8. Steamboat Vanderbilt sunk in the Hudson.
8. Indians capture 9 wagons at Plumb Creek, and kill the teamsters. They also burn 21 wagons at Point Ranche.
8. Gen. Burris returns to New Madrid after 17 days’ scout in S. E. Mo. and N. E. Ark. 50 rebs. killed, 40 wounded, 57 prisoners.
9. Dutch Gap Canal, Va., commenced by Gen. Butler.
9. Terrible explosion of a boat loaded with ammunition at City Point, Va.
9. Heavy shelling of Atlanta.
10. Gen. Sheridan’s army skirmishing near Winchester, Va. Sharp fight near Martinsburg.
10. Steamer Empress fired into by reb. batteries on the banks of the Mississippi.
10. Sharp skirmish near Abbeyvale, Miss.