Sunday December 8 1861

• The CSS Sumter captures the whaler vessel, the Eben Dodge, in the Atlantic Ocean.
• Skirmish at Fishing Creek, near Somerset, KY.
• Skirmish at Dam No. 5, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, on the Potomac River, VA.
• Skirmish near Romney, WV.

Monday December 8 1862

• Federal reconnaissance from Suffolk to the Blackwater and skirmishes at and about Zuni, VA. (Dec 8-12)

Tuesday December 8 1863

• Skirmish near Scottsville, KY, as the attacking Confederates capture the town, along with the Union garrison there, with commissary stores, etc.
• The Federal merchant vessel, Chesapeake, is seized by a group of Northern Copperheads, off the coast of Cape Cod, MA.
• The Federal Raid on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, and demonstrations up the Shenandoah Valley from the Kanawha Valley, WV. (Dec 8-25)
• Brig. Gen. Eliakim P. Scammon's, USA, command advances from the Kanawha Valley, WV.
• Brig. Gen. William W. Averell's, USA, command advances from New Creek, WV.

Thursday December 8 1864

• Skirmish near Bryan Court-House, GA, the "March to the Sea, Campaign by Maj. Gen. Wm Sherman.
• Skirmish at Ebenezer Creek, GA, the "March to the Sea," Campaign by Maj. Gen. Wm Sherman.
• Affair at Tuscumbia, MO, where Confederate Cavalry captures the town and disarmed and paroled 25 Yankees stationed there.
• Maj. Gen. Napoleon J. T. Dana, USA, assumes the command of the Dept. of Mississippi.
• Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, USA, and 6,500 Union men are transported down the James River to Fortress Monroe, VA, to join the naval expeditionary force assembling there for the planned assault on Fort Fisher, to close the last remaining open Confederate port at Wilmington, NC.
• Skirmish at Hatcher's Run, south of Petersburg, VA, the Richmond, VA, campaign.

Friday December 8 1865