[Homer_J_Simpson]

Important Army News: An Expedition to Rappahannock Station – 2-3
A Battle in Kentucky: Two Divisions of Buell’s Army Attacked by Bragg at Perryville – 3
Launch of Another Iron-Clad: Description of the Vessel – 3
News from Washington: The Negro Colonization Scheme at an End for the Present – 3-5
Antietam Abroad – 5
Editorial: Rebel Programme for the Winter – 5
Editorial: A Confederate Navy Building by England – 5-6
Editorial: An Ambulance Corps – 6-7

[BroJoeK]

"A Battle in Kentucky: Two Divisions of Buell’s Army Attacked by Bragg at Perryville – 3"

The war's 153rd engagement, Kentucky's 13th and largest battle of the war, Union victory.
Perryville resulted in over 7,600 total casualties, including 1,355 killed in action.

Kentucky 1861-'62 Engagements

Date	Engagement	Military Units	Losses	Victor
Sep 19	Barbourville, KY	Union KY Home Guard (Black ~300) & Confederate Dept 2 (Zollicoffer ~800)	Union 15-total (1-killed); Confederates 7-total (7-killed)	CSA
Oct 21	Camp Wildcat, KY (near Cumberland Gap)	Union IN & KY Infantry, KY Cavalry (Schoepf ~7,000) & Confederate TN Infantry (Zollicoffer ~5,700)	Union 25-total (5-killed), Confederates 53-total (11-killed)	USA
Nov 8-9	Big Sandy-ivy Mountain, KY	Union: Dept of Ohio (Nelson ~5.500) & Confederate 5th Kentucky (Williams, ~1,010)	Union 62-total (12-killed), Confederates 235-total (41-killed)	USA
Nov 20	Skirmish at Brownsville, KY	Union Dept of Cumberland (~115) & Confederate Cavalry (Morgan ~200)	Union 14-total (6-killed), Confederates 1-total (1-killed)	CSA
Dec 17	Rowlett's Station, KY	Union 32nd Indiana (Willich ~500) & Confederate 8th Texas Cavalry, 1sT Ark. (Terry ~1,350)	Union 46-total (13-killed), Confederates 91-total (33-killed, including Terry)	inconclusive (outnumbered Union forces held the field)
Dec 28	Sacremento, KY	Union cavalry (Murray ~500) & Confederate Cavalry (Forrest ~250)	Union 23-total (10-killed), Confederates 5-total (2-killed)	CSA
Jan 10	Middle Creek, KY	Union KY&OH Inf (Garfield 2,100) & Confederate KY Inf & VA Art+Cav (Marshall 2,500)	Union 27 total, Confederates ~65 total	USA
Jan 11	Lucas Bend, Columbus, KY	Union gunboats Essex, St. Louis (Foote, Porter) & Confederate Gunboats Jackson, Ivy, Polk, N.O. (Holland, Rogers)	Union none, Confederates unknown	Inconclusive
Jan 19	Mill Springs, KY	Union KY, IN, OH, Mn, TN Inf, Cav & ART (Thomas ~4,400) & Confederate MS, TN, KY, AL Inf, Cav & Arty (Crittenden, Zollicoffer ~5,900)	Union 246-total (39 killed), Confederates 529-total (125 killed incl Zollicoffer)	USA
Aug 22	Big Hill, KY	Union Army of Ohio (Metcalfe), Confederate Cavalry, E. Tenn (Scott).	Union 270-total Confederates 16-total	CSA
Aug 30	Richmond, KY	Union Army of KY, (Nelson ~6,850), Confederate Army of E TN (Smith, Cleburn -6,500)	Union ~5,353-total (206-killed), Confederates ~451-total (78-killed)	CSA (CSA outnumbered)
Sep 14-16	Munfordville, KY	Union garrison (Wilder, Dunham ~4,200), Confederate Army of MS (Buckner, Chalmers ~25,000)	Union 4,148-total (4,000+ captured), Confederates 714-total (100?-killed)	CSA (fort held)
Oct 8	Perryville, KY	Union Army of the Ohio (Buell, Thomas, 22,000), Confederate Army of Mississippi (Bragg, Polk ~16,000)	Union 4,241-total (845-killed), Confederates 3,396-total (510-killed)	USA (strategic)

[BroJoeK]

"News from Washington: The Negro Colonization Scheme at an End for the Present – 3-5"

Yet again the New York Times explains why "Negro Colonization" in Central America is a bad idea.
So the plan for Chiriquí Province, today in Panama, is cancelled, even though 13,700 freed blacks had applied to join.
Eventually, over 400 will sail for Île-à-Vache, an island off Haiti.
Very few will survive long enough to return a year later.

Recolonization did not end with the Civil War:

"The ACS [American Colonization Society, founded in 1816, dissolved in 1964] continued to operate during the American Civil War, and colonized 168 blacks during the conflict.
It sent 2,492 people of African descent to Liberia in the five years following the war.
The federal government provided a small amount of support for these operations through the Freedmen's Bureau.[69]"

[BroJoeK]

"Launch of Another Iron-Clad: Description of the Vessel – 3"

USS Montauk will serve throughout the war, then decommissioned will return for service in 1898 to guard against expected Spanish attack in Portland, Maine.
She will be sold for scrap in 1904.

USS Montauk (left) and USS Lehigh (right) in Philadelphia, circa 1902:

[BroJoeK]

"Antietam Abroad – 5"

The pro-Confederate British press -- i.e., London Times -- is having a hard time coming to grips with the reality of the Confederate defeat at Antietam/Sharpsburg, MD.

"Other English papers, however, manifest less obstinacy, and the cotton speculators of Manchester experienced a sudden abatement of ardor.
In spite of the continued and determined incredulity of British statesmen and writers, there is evident always a latent conviction on the part of the people of England that the rebellion is a desperate chance, and the cause of Freedom as against Slavery ordained to triumph."

Clearly, by "now" the war is seen as "Union Freedom against Confederate Slavery".