Important from the Southwest: The Evacuation of Vicksburgh Possible – 2
From the Army of the Potomac: Severe Weather – 2-3
The Army of the Frontier: Dispatches from Major-Gen. Curtis – 3
The War in Tennessee: A Brilliant Skirmish at Woodbury – 3
The Rebel Raid in the Kanawha Valley – 3
Treatment and Diet of Sick Soldiers: Their Daily Fare in Hospital – 3-4
Execution of a Deserter: His Dying Speech – The Last Scenes – 4
The New Generals: Official List of the Major and Brigadier-Generals Confirmed in the Special Session of the Senate – 4-5
The Seven Days’ Battles: Preliminary Report by Gen. McClellan of a Portion of the Operations of the Army of the Potomac on the Peninsula – 5-6
Editorial: Latest Aspects of the War – 6
A Lost Army – 6
A Tragical Romance of the War – 6-7
Editorial: The Plotters with Foreign Ministers – 7
From Fortress Monroe: Arrival of Exchanged Prisoners – 7
Department of the East: Preparations for the Draft – 7
Enthusiastic Reception of Gen. Cowdin at Boston – 7
Sad Casualty: Capsizing of a Towboat – 7
Back in March, one of niteowl77's ancestors had sufficiently recovered from a nearly fatal case of typhoid fever to be discharged from his Illinois volunteer infantry regiment and re-mustered into Ellet's 1st Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Mississippi Marine Brigade.