Morgantown, Ky.
24. Steamer Scotia capt’ed off Charleston, S. C., by U. S. bark
Restless.
25. Gen. Buell removed from the Department of Ky., and Gen. Rosecrans
appointed commander.
25. Part of 43d Ind., on a scout near Helena, Ark., 3 of them killed and
2 wounded by guerrillas in ambush.
27. Steamer Anglia capt’d off Charleston, S. C., by U. S. bark Restless
and steamer Flag.
27. Skirmish near Fayetteville, Ark. Gen. Herron’s Fed. troops defeated
guerrillas, killing 8, and capturing their wagons.
27. Skirmish at Putnam’s Ferry, Mo. 23d Iowa, Col. Lewis, defeated a
large force of rebs., who lost several killed and 40 prisoners.
27. Fight near Donaldsonville, La. Gen. Weitzel’s troops defeated rebs.,
who lost 6 killed, 15 wounded and 208 prisoners. Fed. loss, 18 killed,
74 wounded.
27. Gen. Pleasanton’s cavalry drove the rebs. from Snicker’s Gap, Va.
28. Capt. Partridge’s Fed. pickets were captured near Pensacola, Fla.
28. The steamer Caroline captured off Mobile, Ala., by U. S. steamer
Montgomery.
28. Gen. Herron, with 1,000 men attacked a Confederate camp near
Fayetteville, Ark., under Col. Craven, routing them with a loss of 8
killed and their camp equipage.
28. A company of reb. cavalry captured near Cotton Creek, Fla., by Union
troops.
28. The bark Lauretta, of N. Y., captured and burned by the Alabama.
29. Skirmish 5 miles from Petersburg, Va. Lieut.-Col. Quirk routed a
detachment of Stuart’s reb. cavalry, capturing 16 men and 200 cattle.
29. Fight near Butler, Bates Co., Mo. 1st Kansas (colored), Col. Seaman,
defeated reb. guerrillas under Cockerill, with a loss of 30 killed and
wounded. Union loss, 8 killed, 10 wounded.
29. Maj. Keenan, 8th Pa. cavalry captured 100 rebs. while on a scout in
the Shenandoah valley, Va.
29. Ship Alleghanian, of New York, burned on the Rappahannock river,
Va., by rebels.
30. Maj.-Gen. O. M. Mitchell, Commander of Department of the South, died
at Beaufort, S. C.
30. Skirmish at Thoroughfare Gap, Va. 1st N. J. cavalry, Col. Wyndham,
engaged a rebel force with slight loss.
31. The town of Franklin, on the Blackwater river, Va., partially
destroyed by Union batteries, a reb. force stationed there being driven
out with loss.
31. The Wilmington, N. C. salt-works destroyed by Capt. Cushing, gunboat
Ellis.
=Nov. 1.= The U. S. steamer Northerner, and gunboat States of the North,
with a detachment of 3d N. Y. cavalry and 2 pieces of Allen’s artillery,
under Maj. Garrard, captured 2 rebel schooners on Pungo Creek, N. C.
Disembarking at Montgomery, the troops marched to Germantown,
Swanquarter, and Middletown, capturing in those places 25 prisoners and
130 horses and mules.
1. The town of Lavacca, on Matagorda Bay, Texas, bombarded by U. S.
gunboats Clifton and Westfield.
1. Skirmish at Franklin, Va. Gen. Wessell’s brigade, 11th Pa. cavalry,
and other troops, drove the rebels from the town with some loss.
2. Skirmishes near Philomont, Va. by Gen. Pleasanton’s cavalry with
Stuart’s rebel forces.
2. Snicker’s Gap, Va. occupied by Gen. Hancock’s troops after a slight
skirmish with the enemy.
2. Col. Dewey’s troops returned to Patterson, Wayne Co., Mo., from an
expedition to Pittman’s ferry, Currant river, where they captured 13
rebels.
2. A skirmish near Williamstown, N. C. between part of the 20th N. C.
rebels under Col. Burgwyn, and some Federal troops.
2. Col. Lee, of Hamilton’s National cavalry, returned to Grand Junction,
Miss. after a three days’ expedition towards Ripley and 10 miles south,
having captured 65 of the enemy with slight resistance.
2. The ship Levi Starbuck captured and burned by the Alabama.
3. A fight in Bayou Teche, La., 5 Union gunboats engaged a large rebel
force and the gunboat Cotton. The rebels retreated after burning 75 cars
and engines, and 1000 hogsheads of sugar. Fed. loss about 14 killed and
wounded.
=Nov. 3.= Tampa, Fla. was bombarded by the Union forces.
3. 300 rebs. under Quantrell attacked a wagon train of 13 wagons,
escorted by 22 of the 6th Mo. cavalry, Lieut. Newby, near Harrisonville,
Mo., killing 8 of the escort, wounding 4 and taking 5 prisoners, and
burning the wagons. The rebel troops were shortly after overtaken by the
5th and 6th Mo. cavalry and defeated with severe loss.
3. The steamer Darlington, with col’d troops under Col. O. T. Beard,
proceeded up Bell river, Fla., to Cooper’s, where they destroyed the
salt works, and all stores that could not be carried off. From thence
they went up Jolly river, destroying salt works, with a large amount of
corn and salt.
3. Skirmish near New Baltimore, Va. Capt. Flint, with pickets from 1st
Vt. cavalry, defeated a reb. party.
3. Piedmont, Va., occupied by Union cavalry under Pleasanton and
Averill.
3. Fight in Webster Co., Ky. Col. Foster captured 3 lieutenants, 22 men,
40 horses, &c.
3. Horatio Seymour elected Governor of New York.
4. 3 Union pickets captured near Bolivar Heights, Va.
4. La Grange, Miss. occupied by Gen. Grant’s forces.
4. Bark Sophia captured off N. C. coast by U. S. steamers Daylight and
Mount Vernon.
4. The U. S. steamer Darlington, with Col. O. T. Beard’s colored troops
destroyed rebel salt works at King’s Bay, Ga., after slight skirmishing
with the enemy.
5. Skirmish at Lamar, Mo. 80 State militia driven from the place by
Quantrell’s rebel troop.
5. Skirmish at Barber’s Cross-Roads, Va. Gen. Pleasanton’s cavalry
defeated a detachment of Gen. Stuart’s reb. troops.
5. Maj. Holloway’s Federal cavalry defeated a party of guerrillas under
Col. Fowler, between Henderson and Bowling Green, Ky. Reb. loss 8
killed, including the commander, besides a large number of wounded
prisoners.
5. Skirmish at New Baltimore, Va. Col. Wyndham’s Fed. cavalry defeated
rebels.
5. Skirmish near Nashville, Tenn. Gen. Negley’s Fed. troops defeated
Gen. J. H. Morgan’s forces, capturing 23 Union loss 5 killed, 19
wounded.
5. Gen. McClellan relieved from command of the Army of the Potomac, and
Gen. Burnside appointed his successor.
6. Warrenton, Va., captured by Gen. Reynolds, who took 7 Confed.
prisoners.
6. Fight at Piketon, Ky. Col. Dills routed Confederates, capturing 80,
and securing 150 muskets, 40 horses, wagons, &c.
6. Skirmish near Leatherwood, Ky. Capt. Powell’s Fed. company routed
guerrillas, who fled, leaving 6 of their number dead, and their captain
mortally wounded.
7. At Beaver Creek, Mo., Capt. Barstow’s company of 10th Ill. cavalry,
and 2 militia companies, defended a block house for 5 hours against a
superior force, when he surrendered.
7. Expedition up the Sapelo river, Ga., by U. S. steamers Potomska and
Darlington, and 48th N. Y., Col. O. T. Beard. A valuable salt work
destroyed, and a number of rebs. and slaves captured.
7. Skirmish at Lamar, Mo. State militia successfully resist an attack
from Quantrell’s band.
7. 300 Indians, who were engaged in the massacres in Minnesota, were
sentenced to be hung—most of whom were afterwards pardoned.
8. Skirmish at Rappahannock bridge, Va. Gen. Bayard’s troops captured 12
of Longstreet’s rebels.
8. Skirmish at Hudsonville, Miss. 7th Kansas, Col. Lee, defeated rebels,
who lost 16 killed, and 175 captured.
8. Ship T. B. Wales burned by the Alabama.
8. Skirmish near Marianna, Ark. Part of 3d and 4th Iowa cavalry, Capt.
M. L. Perkins, defeated rebels, who lost 5 killed and several wounded. 1
Fed. wounded.
9. Skirmish at Fredericksburg, Va. Capt. Dahlgren’s troops drove off a
Confed. party, after a sharp skirmish, capturing 39 prisoners and
stores.
9. Gen. Kelley’s Fed. cavalry defeated Imboden’s troops 18 miles S.W. of
Moorefield, Va.
9. St. Mary’s, Fla., burned by U. S. gunboat Mohawk in retaliation for
the treachery of the inhabitants.
9. Skirmish in Perry Co., Ky., on the Kentucky river. Capts. Morgan and
Eversod’s troops defeated guerrillas.
10. Lieut. Ash, 2d U. S. dragoons, defeated part of 5th Va. cavalry, 10
miles south of Warrenton, Va.
10. Capt. G. W. Gilmore captured two wagons and several rebels near
Williamsburg, Greenbrier Co., Va.
11. Skirmish near Huntsville, Tenn. Capt. Duncan’s Home Guards routed a
small band of rebs. who lost 6 killed and several wounded.
11. A fight near Lebanon, Tenn. National cavalry under Capts. Kennett
and Wolford defeated Morgan’s men, who lost 7 killed and 125 prisoners.
11. National pickets driven in with slight loss at Newbern, N. C.
11. 134 prisoners taken and 16 rebs. killed by Col. Lee’s Kansas cavalry
near La Grange, Tenn.
11. Gen. Ransom defeated Confederate forces near Garretsburg, Ky.
12. Gen. Hooker appointed to relieve Gen. Fitz John Porter in command of
the 5th Army Corps.
12. Cavalry engagement near Lamar, Miss. Detachments of 2nd Ill. and
27th Kansas, Maj. J. J. Mudd, routed a force of rebs. with severe loss.
13. Slight skirmish at Holly Springs, Miss. Col. Lee’s cavalry killed 4
rebs. and captured several.
13. Expedition to the Doboy river, Ga., by U. S. steamers Ben Deford and
Darlington, with Col. Beard’s colored troops, who seized a large
quantity of reb. property.
13. A reb. camp near Calhoun, Green river, Ky. was surprised by Col.
Shanks, with 400 men, who captured their arms and camp equipage.
15. Fight near Fayetteville, Va., by Fed. troops under Gen. Sturgis and
a large body of rebs., who were defeated.
16. The remaining corps of the army of the Potomac, excepting the 5th
and Gen. Pleasanton’s cavalry, left Warrenton, and proceeded towards
Fredericksburg.
17. Pickets of the 104th Pa. surprised at Gloucester Point, Pa. and 1
killed, 3 wounded, and 2 captured.
18. Skirmish at Rural Hills, Tenn. Col. Hawkins’ troops defeated reb.
cavalry, who left 16 of their number dead on the field.
18. At Cove Creek, near Kinston, N. C., Lieut.-Col. Mix with part of 3d
N. Y. cavalry and Allis’s artillery, defeated the 10th N. C. infantry
and some of the 2d N. C. cavalry, who retreated with the loss of arms
and equipments.
18. Falmouth, Va. occupied by Gen. Sumner’s Fed. troops.
18. The English schooners Ariel and Ann Marie captured off Little Run,
S. C. by U. S. gunboat Monticello.
19. James A. Seddons appointed reb. Sec. of War, in place of G. W.
Randolph, resigned.
19. The 1st Gen. Council of the Epis. Church in the reb. States met at
Augusta, Ga.
20. Col. Carlin’s expedition returned to Nashville, Tenn., from
Clarksville, having captured 43 rebs., 40 horses, &c.
20. Fed. pickets surprised at Bull Run bridge, Va., and 3 captured.
20. Warrenton and Leesburg, Va., occupied by reb. cavalry.
21. Gen. Sumner, commanding right wing of army of the Potomac, in front
of Fredericksburg, Va.
21. Skirmish at Bayou Bontouca, near Fort Pike, La. Capt. Darling’s
company of 31st Mass. defeated rebs. under Capt. Evans, who lost 4
killed and several wounded. Union loss 1 wounded.
22. All political State prisoners held by military authority in the U.
S. released by order of the Sec. of War.
22. Part of 1st N. Y. cavalry, Capt. Harkins, defeated rebs. near
Winchester, Va., who lost 4 men and 30 horses.
22. An expedition into Matthew Co., Va., by steamer Mahaska, Capt. F. A.
Parker, with land forces under Gen. Naglee, destroyed 12 salt works, and
20 or 30 vessels and other reb. property.
22. Skirmish near Halltown, Va., by Gen. Geary’s troops.
23. Lieut. Cushing, U. S. steamer Ellis, captured 2 schrs. on New river,
N. C., but lost his own vessel on the shoals in returning.
24. A reb. picket of 12 men captured by Gen. Kelley’s cavalry 4 miles
from Winchester, Va.
24. A Fed. supply train of 47 wagons, escorted by 50 3d Mo. cavalry, was
attacked by rebs. about 30 miles south of Lebanon, Texas Co., Mo. 5 of
the escort were killed and 20 wagons captured.
25. The U. S. gunboat Lexington, J. W. Shirk, attacked 20 miles below
Helena, Ark. The enemy were repelled, leaving several of their number
killed. Capt. Shirk landed a party of sailors, who carried off 20
negroes and 16 bales of cotton.
25. A slight skirmish at Zuni, on the Blackwater river, Va., by mounted
rifles under Col. Dodge, and a reb. force.
25. A company of Fed. troops captured at Henderson, Tenn., by reb.
cavalry.
25. In Crawford Co., Mo., a company of reb. guerrillas carried off
horses, firearms, clothing, &c., from farmers. Returning, near Huzza
river, Iron Co., they were overtaken by Capt. N. B. Reeve’s company, who
killed 2 of their party and recovered the plunder.
=Nov. 25.= Col. Paxton’s loyal Va. cavalry captured 118 prisoners, 300
stand of arms, 100 horses, and other property, near Sinking Creek, W.
Va.
26. Fight at Cold Knob Mountain, Va. 2d Va. cavalry, Col. J. C. Paxton,
defeated reb. troops, of whom over 100 were taken prisoners.
26. 25 guerrillas, under Evan Dorsey, crossed the Potomac, and robbed
the stores and stables in Urbanna, 7 miles above Frederic, Md. killing a
man named Harris.
26. 7th Ill. cavalry attacked rebs. near Summerville, Miss., and
captured 28 of their number.
27. Indiana troops, under Cols. Hurd and Dodge, defeated rebels near La
Vergne, Tenn., several of whom were killed. National loss 10 wounded.
28. Gen. Blunt defeated Gen. Marmaduke’s Confederate forces _en route_
for Missouri, at Kane Hill, Ark. The battle raged over 12 miles. The
rebels retreated to Van Buren, Ark.
28. At Hartwood Church, 15 miles from Falmouth, Va., 2 squadrons of 3d
Pa. cavalry, Gen. Averill’s brigade, captured by the enemy, after a
brief resistance, in which they lost 4 killed and 9 wounded.
28. A large Fed. expedition, under Gen. A. P. Hovey, left Helena, Ark.,
and arrived at Delta, Miss., cutting the Tenn. and Mississippi railroad,
and destroying 2 engines and 30 cars. Gen. Washburne’s cavalry
encountered the rear of Price’s rebel army, and captured 50 men, near
the Big Black river.
29. The U. S. steamer Star was burned by rebs. 2 miles below Plaqeumine,
La.
29. Gen. Stahl, with 300 cavalry, attacked rebs. at Snicker’s Gap, Va.,
killing 45, capturing 40.
30. A skirmish near Abbeville, Miss., by Col. Lee’s troops with a rebel
force.
30. The schooner Levi Rowe captured off N. Carolina by U. S. steamer
Mount Vernon.
30. The bark Parker Cook destroyed by reb. steamer Alabama in the Mona
Passage.
=Dec. 1.= U. S. Congress convened at Washington.
1. Col. Lee’s cavalry took possession of rebel forts on the Tallahatchie
river. He also captured a battery of 6 guns on the north side of the
river.
1. Skirmish near Horse Creek, Dade Co., Mo. Maj. Kelley’s 4th Mo.
cavalry routed a band of rebs., capturing 5.
1. Skirmish near Charlestown, Va. Gen. Slocum’s Fed. troops defeated
rebel cavalry under White and Henderson, killing 5, and wounding 18.
1. At Franklin, Va., Gen. Peck recaptured the Pittsburg battery, taken
from the Fed. forces on the Peninsula.
2. A fight near Franklin, Va. 11th Pa. cavalry, Col. Spear, with
artillery supports, defeated reb. cavalry with severe loss.
2. Lieut. Hoffman and 6 men of 1st N. J. cavalry, captured while on
picket duty 3 miles from Dumfries, Va.
2. Two companies of 8th Pa. cavalry, Capt. Wilson, defeated with severe
loss at King George Court House, Va.
2. Part of Gen. Banks’ expedition to New Orleans sailed from New York.
2. Gen. Geary defeated rebels near Charlestown, Va., killing and
wounding 70, and capturing 145.
3. Princeton, Ky., occupied by Federal troops, 91st Ind. and 15th Ky.,
under Maj. A. P. Henry, who captured a number of rebels.
3. Skirmishes near Oxford, Miss. Col. Hatch’s brigade captured 92 rebs.
Fed. loss in killed and wounded, 20.
4. Skirmish near Tuscumbia, Ala. Rebs. abandoned their camps, losing 70
men prisoners, and their horses.
4. Winchester, Va., occupied by Gen. Geary’s troops, the rebel garrison
leaving on his approach.
4. A sharp fight at Watervalley, Miss. Col. Hatch and Lee’s Fed.
brigades defeated a rebel force, capturing 300 men and 50 horses.
5. Fed. cavalry under Cols. Dickey and Lee defeated by rebel infantry
after two hours’ fight. Union loss, 100 killed, wounded, and missing.
5. The 30th Iowa and 29th Wis. attacked by rebs. at Helena, Ark., whom
they repulsed, killing 8, and capturing 30.
6. The schr. Medora, with rebel army stores, was captured at Hackett’s
Point Md., by Capt. Kearney’s company.
6. A forage train, in charge of 93d Ohio, Col. Anderson, was attacked by
rebs. near Lebanon, Tenn., who were driven off.
6. Gen. Banks’ expedition sailed from New York to New Orleans.
7. U. S. mail steamer Ariel captured off Cuba by rebel steamer Alabama,
but released on bond for $228,000.
7. Gens. Blunt and Herron defeated 15,000 rebels under Gens. Hindman,
Marmaduke, Parsons, and Frost, at Prairie Grove, N.W. Ark. Federal loss,
495 killed, 600 wounded. Confed. loss, 1,500 killed and wounded.
7. The 106th and 108th Ohio, and 104th Ill., under Col. A. B. Moore,
were attacked by a rebel force under Gen. J. H. Morgan, at Hartsville,
Tenn. After a fight in which 55 of the Feds. were killed, and over 100
wounded, the entire force surrendered to the rebels, who lost about the
same number in killed and wounded.
7. 60 of the 8th Pa. cavalry defeated at King George’s C. H., Va. Loss
20.
9. A body of rebels attacked a forage train, under escort, near
LaVergne, Tenn., but were repulsed with considerable loss.
9. U. S. steamer Lake City was burned by rebels at Concordia, Ark. In
retaliation, the steamer De Soto went to Concordia, and burned 42
houses.
9. Skirmish near Brentville, Tenn. Federals under Col. John A. Martin,
defeated a rebel force.
10. Congress passed a bill admitting to the Union the State of Western
Va.
10. Plymouth, N. C., captured and burned by the Confederates.
11. The U. S. gunboat Cairo sunk in the Yazoo river by a torpedo. The
crew saved.
11. The city of Fredericksburg, Va., bombarded and occupied by Fed.
troops.
12. Skirmish near Corinth, Miss. 52d Ill., Col. Sweeney, engaged a rebel
force led by Col. Roddy. Rebel loss, 11 killed, 80 wounded; Union loss,
1 killed, and 2 prisoners.
12. 1,750 paroled Union prisoners, who had been captured by Gen. Morgan,
arrived at Nashville.
12. Artillery skirmish by Gen. Terry’s Federal troops, near Zuni, on the
Blackwater river, Va.
12. At Dumfries, Va., 35 National pickets and sutlers were captured by
Gen. Stuart’s cavalry.
12. Gen. Foster engaged and defeated Confederates near Kingston, N. C.,
capturing 400 prisoners, 13 pieces of artillery, &c.
12. Rebel salt works at Yellville, Ark., destroyed by Federal troops
under Capt. M. Birch.
12. Rebs. attacked at Franklin, Tenn., by cavalry under Gen. D. S.
Stanley, who drove them from the town, and destroyed mills and other
property. Reb. loss, 5 killed, 10 wounded. One Fed. killed.
13. Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. The reb. works were attacked by the
National army under Gen. Burnside. It consisted of three grand divisions
led by Gens. Sumner, Hooker and Franklin. The Fed. army was repulsed,
losing 1,512 killed, 6,000 wounded, and 460 prisoners. The rebels lost
1,800 men.
13. Jeff. Davis reviewed the reb. forces under Bragg at Murfreesboro’.
13. Two regiments of Union infantry and one of cavalry surprised a rebel
force at Tuscumbia, Ala., completely routing them and capturing 70
prisoners, their horses and baggage. Federal loss, 4 killed, 14 wounded.
13. Gov. Johnson, of Tenn., assessed disloyal citizens of Nashville in
various amounts to be paid in 5 monthly instalments, in behalf of widows
and orphans of that city who had been reduced to want in consequence of
their husbands and fathers being forced into the rebel armies.
13. Skirmish at Southwest Creek, N. C. Gen. Foster’s troops routed
rebels, who lost a number of prisoners and guns.
13. Unsuccessful attack on reb. works on the river, at Kinston, N. C.,
by small boats under Capt. Murray.
14. Two hundred Feds. under Capt. Thornberry, of 39th Ky., were defeated
by 800 rebels at Wireman’s Shoals, 5 miles below Prestonsburg, Ky. Rebs.
captured 700 muskets, as many uniforms, and 40,000 rounds of cartridges.
14. The _True Presbyterian_ and the _Baptist Recorder_, of Louisville,
Ky., were suppressed, and the editor of the _Recorder_ sent to prison.
14. Coffeeville, Miss., occupied by Fed. forces under Cols. Mizner and
Lee.
14. Gen. Foster’s troops engaged and defeated the Confeds. near
Kingston, N. C., capturing 400 prisoners, 13 pieces of artillery, &c.
Reb. loss, 71 killed, 268 wounded. Fed. loss, 90 killed, 478 w.
14. A Confed. cavalry force crossed the Potomac at Poolesville, Md., and
captured 13 Fed. soldiers of the Scott cavalry, killing or wounding
about 20 more.
14. Gen. Banks’ expedition arrived at New Orleans.
14. A picket guard of 24 men of the 6th Mo., were captured by rebs. at
Helena, Ark.
14. Slight skirmish at Woodsonville, Tenn.
14. A wagon train laden with provisions and clothing for Fed. troops at
Ringgold Barracks, Texas, on its way from Fort Brown, under escort, was
attacked by Mexicans and captured, and the escort killed, excepting one
man.
=Dec. 15.= Gen. Hovey’s expedition returned to Helena, Ark.
15. Gen. Butler superseded in command of the Department of the Gulf by
Gen. Banks.
16. Rebs. under Gen. Evans defeated in an artillery duel on the banks of
the river Neuse, near Whitehall, N. C., by Gen. Foster’s troops.
16. Three hundred Ga., Texas and Ky. cavalry captured near New Haven,
Ky., by a detachment of Walford’s cavalry, under Capt. Adams.
16. The army of the Potomac withdrawn to the north side of the
Rappahannock, from Fredericksburg, Va.
17. Baton Rouge, La., occupied by Fed. troops under Gen. Grover.
17. Fight at Goldsboro’, N. C. Gen. Foster’s troops destroyed a valuable
bridge, and defeated rebels under Gen. Evans.
18. Lexington, Ky., occupied by rebs. under Gen. Forrest, after
defeating the 11th Ill. cavalry, Col. R. G. Ingersoll, who fought 2
hours, and lost 40 men and 2 cannon.
18. The steamer Mill Boy, at Commerce, Miss., was fired on by reb.
cavalry and 3 men killed. The U. S. gunboat Juliet and City Belle with
11th and 47th Ind. were dispatched to Commerce and burnt the town and
plantations in the neighborhood.
19. Holly Springs, Miss., surrendered to rebs. with 1,800 men and 150
officers. $1,000,000 worth of commissary stores, &c., destroyed.
19. A lieutenant and 30 men of 10th N. Y. cavalry, with 14 wagons,
captured at Occoquan, Va., by reb. cavalry, who were overtaken by Col.
Rush’s cavalry and compelled to destroy their plunder.
19. Col. Dickey’s Fed. cavalry returned to camp, near Oxford, Miss.,
from a 6 days’ scout, with 150 prisoners. 34 miles of the Ohio and
Mobile railroad were destroyed, with a large amount of rebel stores.
20. Skirmish near Halltown, Va. Capt. Vernon’s Fed. cavalry defeated
rebs., capturing 3.
19–20. A body of reb. cavalry under Col. Forrest attacked a Fed. force
at Davis’s Mills, Tenn., and were repulsed by them. On the succeeding
day, Humboldt, Trenton, Dyers, Rutherton, and Keaton were visited by
them, and telegraph lines and railroad bridges destroyed, thus severing
Gen. Grant’s communication between Columbus and Corinth.
20. Gen. W. T. Sherman’s expeditionary army against Vicksburg embarked
at Memphis, Tenn., in over 100 transports.
21. Gen. Carter, with 1000 cavalry, entered E. Tenn., and captured 550
rebels and 700 stand of arms.
21. Skirmish near Nashville, Tenn. Gen. Van Cleve’s troops with reb.
artil’y.
21. Secretaries Seward and Chase tendered their resignation to Pres.
Lincoln, who informed them that the acceptance of them would be
incompatible with the public welfare; when the resignations were
withdrawn.
21. The 25th Ind., Col. W. H. Morgan, in garrison at Davis’s Mills, Wolf
river, Miss., were attacked by a large cavalry force of rebs. under Gen.
Van. After 3 hours’ contest the rebels withdrew, leaving 22 dead, 30
wounded, 20 prisoners, and 100 stand of arms.
22. Skirmish at Isle of Wight Court House, Va. Lieut. Onderdonk’s N. Y.
mounted rifles defeated by Gen. Pryor’s troops. Rebs. lost 2 men.
22. Maj.-Gen. R. C. Schenck assumed command of the Middle Department and
8th Army corps, headquarters at Baltimore, Md.
23. A proclamation from Jeff. Davis, threatening to hang Gen. Butler, or
any of his officers who should be captured, in retaliation for the
hanging of W. B. Mumford at N. Orleans.
23. Gen. Sigel’s troops attacked at Dumfries, Va. by reb. cavalry, who
were repulsed.