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Highly Important News: The Particulars of the Battle of Booneville, Mo. – 2
Important from Missouri: The Slaughter of Rebels at Booneville – 2-3
Affairs in Western Virginia: Operations of the Rebel Forces – 3
The London Times Correspondent – 3
Important Order from Gen. McDowell – 3
Western Virginia: Declaration of Independence and Plan for Reorganization – 3
Editorial: The Rebellion in Missouri-Prompt and Vigorous Action – 3-4
Editorial: The Position Assumed at Wheeling – 4
Editorial: Famine Among the Confederates – 4-5
Editorial: Operations in Western Virginia – 5
A Lesson from the Enemy – 5
Beauty and Booty – 5
A Secessionist and Incendiary Hung – 5
Movements of Transports – 5
From Fairfax Court-House – 5

"A Lesson from the Enemy – 5"

Again our editors complain about the Union's practice of paroling Prisoners of War merely on their oaths to stop fighting.
The editors recommend holding Confederate prisoners in exchange for captured Union soldiers.

By war's end both paroling and exchanging prisoners will break down, though thankfully not before one of my great-grandfathers first met Confederate cavalry under Nathan Bedford Forrest.

This listing includes Booneville and Camp Cole, both in Missouri.
So, of the 13 encounters thus far:

-- 6 in Virginia (CSA)
-- 3 in Missouri (USA)
-- 2 in South Carolina (CSA)
-- 1 in West Virginia (USA)
-- 1 in Maryland (USA)

Total casualties, including civilians wounded in Baltimore & St. Louis are approaching 600.

Date	Engagement	Military Units	Losses	Victor
April 12-14	Fort Sumter, SC	Confederate artillery, Union garrison	None	CSA
April 15	Evacuation of Fort Sumter, SC	Union garrison	Two Union soldiers killed, four wounded by accidental explosion	N.A.
April 19	Baltimore Riots, MD	MA 6th, PA 26th vs secessionist crowd	4 Union soldiers killed, 12 civilians killed, hundreds wounded	USA
May 10	St. Louis Riots, MO	Union forces vs secessionist crowd	4 Union soldiers killed, 3 prisoners, 28 civilians killed	USA
May 18-19	Sewell's Point, VA	Union naval squadron vs Confederate shore artillery	10 total	inconclusive
May 29- June 1	Aquila Creek, VA	Union naval squadron vs Confederate shore artillery	10 total	inconclusive
June 1	Fairfax Court House, VA	detachments from CSA & USA armies	8 on each side, 1 each killed	inconclusive
June 3	Philippi, WVA	Union Dept of Ohio (McClellan), CSA infantry	Union 4, CSA 26 (killed or wounded)	USA
June 10	Big Bethel, VA	Union: 3,500 (Butler) , CSA 1,400 (Magruder)	Union 18-killed 53-wounded, CSA: 1-K 9-W	CSA
June 15	Hoo's Ferry (near Mathias Point) VA	Union schooner Christina Keen; CSA Farmer's Fork Grays	none -- Christina Keen captured and burned	CSA
June 17	Vienna, VA	Detachments from both Union & CSA armies	Union: 8 killed, 4 wounded; CSA: none reported	CSA
June 17	Boonville, MO	Union Western Dept (Lyon) 1,700 vs. MO State Guard (Marmaduke) ~1,500	Union: 5-killed, 7-wounded, MO Guard 5-k 17-w	USA
June 18	Camp Cole, MO	Union Home Guards (~500), Confederate State Guards (~350)	Union: 35 killed, 60 wounded 25 captured CSA: 7-K, 25-W	CSA