Hot and dry until 4 P.M. Gust, and 15 minutes' rain. Good for turnips. Forts Gaines and Powell are lost—the latter blown up. Gen. Maur...

Slept well, rained all night. At 10. a. m. start through pass, aground at 11. Brown with 4 co of our Regt passes us here. Men runing short ...

BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL G. W. CLARK. COLONEL, THIRTY-FOURTH INFANTRY. George Washington Clark, the original colonel of the 34th Iowa Infan...