March 21.—A fight occurred at Cottage Grove, Tenn., between the Union force stationed in that place, and a body of rebel guerrillas, numbering nearly two thousand men. The fight lasted for more than two hours with varying success; but finally, the Union party being reenforced, the rebels were driven off the field, and pursued for several miles, with great loss in killed and wounded.
— The National gunboats Hartford and Monongahela passed Warrenton, Miss., and anchored below Vicksburgh. — Major-General Edwin V. Sumner died at Syracuse, N. Y., this morning.— The British steamer Nicholas I. was captured while attempting to run the blockade of Wilmington, N. C, by the gunboat Victoria.—A fight took place near Seneca, Pendleton County, Va., between a party of loyal men, called “Swampers,” and a force of rebels, resulting in the defeat of the “Swampers.”—Wheeling Intelligencer.
—A large force of Union troops, under the command of Generals Stuart and Sherman, in conjunction with the fleet of gunboats, under Admiral Porter, returned to the Yazoo, after a successful reconnoitring expedition to Steele’s Bayou, Black Bayou, Muddy Bayou, and Deer Creek, Miss. In Deer Creek they were attacked in strong force by the enemy, but, after a contest of several hours’ duration, he was driven off with considerable loss. The expedition destroyed two thousand bales of cotton, fifty thousand bushels of corn, and the houses and cotton-gins of the rebel planters along the route.—(Doc. 140.)
