5. Brig Lizzie Freeman captured by pirates off Warwick river. Passengers robbed; 1 murdered.
6. Ex-Secretary Chase appointed Chief Justice Supreme Court.
6. Hood skirmishing 5 miles from Nashville.
6. Rebels defeated near the Charleston and Savannah railroad.
7. Rosseau routs Forrest near Murfreesboro’, capturing 207 prisoners and 14 cannon.
8. Rebels establish a battery on Cumberland river. Gunboats fail to dislodge it.
8. Five divisions, under Maj.-Gen. Warren, made a raid on the Weldon (N. C.) railroad. The Nottoway was reached about midday, Dec. 8th, and destroyed; thence the railroad track was destroyed nearly to Bellfield Station, 20 miles south.
9. 500 Indians killed near Fort Lyon by Col. Chivington’s force.
9. 4,000 rebels, under Gen. Lyon, cross the Cumberland river, 20 miles above Fort Donelson.
9. Reconnoissance of Gen. Miles to Hatcher’s Run, on the right of the rebel forces defending Petersburg. He captures the rebel works and holds them during the night.