10. Arrest on board of the vessel, of a party of rebels, conspiring to seize the Panama Railroad Co.’s steamship Salvador, on the Pacific.
10. Rebels engaged 2d corps’ pickets all night, without success, on this and 2 next nights.
11. U. S. S. Tulip destroyed by boiler explosion off Ragged Point. 49 officers and men killed (all of crew but 10).
11. Reconnoissance by the rebels in the Shenandoah Valley.
11. Commencement of the burning of Atlanta, Ga.
12. Burning of Atlanta continued. The public buildings destroyed.
12. About 10,000 prisoners exchanged near Fort Pulaski.
12–16. Several unimportant skirmishes between Gen. Sheridan and rebel Gen. Early. Both armies looking for winter quarters.
12. Rebel Gen. Lomax defeated near Nineveh, Va. by Powell, losing 150 prisoners and 2 guns.
12. Custer captures 150 and Merritt about 200 prisoners on reconnoissance from Cedar creek.