Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1863-08-14
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BELLOWs FALLS, AUGUST IA, 1853.
July, 1863.

The great and important events in the
month of July should be specially recorded,
in form convenient for reference. Not
since the outbreak Of the rebellion has this
struggling nation passed through month
illustrated and consecrated by such tri-
umphs as came to us in Jolly, viz
July g. The victory at GETTYSBURG. Re-
bel loss in killed, wounded and prisoners,
$4,000.
July A. Capture ofVIcKsBURG, with 31,-
900 prisoners, 220 guns, 20, 1000 small arms.
July 4. Victory at HELENA, Arkansas.
the Rebels losing 2,7o0 killed, wounded and
prisoners.
July 4. Rebel evacuation Of Tullahoma,
as the result of series of contests in which
the Rebel loss was over 1000.
July 4. Defeat of Stuart by Buford at
Hanover, with loss of 1000 prisoners, and
two guns.
July s. Capture of PoRr HUDSON, y
900 prisoners, and numerous cannon and
small arms.
July s. Successful cavalry engagement
near Funkstown, Gen. Pleasanton captur-
ing GOO prisoners.
July 8. Another victory by our cavalry,
Under Buford and Fitzpatrick, at Boons-
boro.
July 10. The Rebel batteries on Morris
Island in Charleston harbor attacked aud
carried, and secure foothold gained on the
island for future operations against Fort
Sumter.
July IS. Yazoo City, six guns, gunboa',
large quantities of stores, and 500 prison.
ers captured by our forces.
July IA. a brigade of Rebels and two
guns captured at Falling Waters, and the
Rebel Gen. Pettigrew killed.
July IA. Admiral Lee captures Fort
Powhatan. on the James River.
July 16. Joe johnson is driven out of
jackson, Mississippi, by our forces under
Gen. Sherman, with the loss OF stores des-
troyed and captured and large amounts of
rolling stock on the railroads.
July 16. Victory of Gen. Blunt at Elk
Creek over 5000 rebels under Cooper, with
capture of two guns and 100 prisoners.
July II. Two expeditions, one up the
Red River and one to Natchez, make large
captures, of steamer, $4,000 Enfield rifles,
5000 head of cattle, some hundreds of
thousand rounds of ammunition, and a num-
ber of cannon.
July IS. Morgan loses 700 of his guer-
rila gang near Burlington, Ohio.
July 10. About 800 more OF the same
expedition captured.
July 10. Two companies of Rebels and
an ammunition train captured at jackson,
Tennessee.
July 20. Morgan's lieutenant, Basil Duke,
and | $40 of his men taken prisoners at
Georges Creek.
%. Railway bridge, $50 feet long, over
ths Tar River at Rocky Mount, destroyed
by cavalry expedition from Newburn, to-
gether with great amount of public pro-
perty, two steamers and one iron-clad near
ly finished.
July %. Capture of Brasher City, Louis
lana.
July "a. Capture of Wytheville, and l25
prisoners.
July 26. John Morgan and all the re-
mainder Of his forces surrender to Gen.
Shackelford.
July %. Rebels defeated at Lexington,
Tennessee, with loss Of colonel, and other
officers, and two cannon.
July 20. The Rebel Gen. Pegram de-
feated at Paris, KY, with severe losses.
July 80. Rebels, 1000 strong, defeated
at Winchester, KY, by Col. Sanders.
July 81. Successful attack on the enemy
at Lancaster, Ky.
Twenty-eight successful contests, with a
loss to the enemy of more than 500 guns
and $4,000 prisoners. Lee driven back in
to Virginia, the Mississippi open from its
source to the Gulf.
The number of full negro regiments now