Wednesday October 2 1861

• The Confederacy sign a peace treaty with the Great Osage Indian Nation tribe, the Indian Territory.
• Federal expedition from Bird's Point, near Cario, IL, to Charleston, MO, and attack on the rebel camp there.
• Skirmish at Chapmansville, VA, ends in a Confederate defeat.
• Skirmish at Springfield Station, VA, about 12 miles south of Washington, DC.

Thursday October 2 1862

• Evander Mclvor Law, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Francis Barretto Spinola, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Skirmishes between Mayport Mills and Saint John's Bluff, FL.
• Skirmish on the Shepherdsville Road, KY.
• Skirmish at Baldwyn, MS.
• Skirmish near Ramer's Crossing, the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, MS.
• Skirmish near Columbia, MO, as the Federals routs guerrillas.
• Federal destruction of the railroad depot near Beaumont, TX, and the Eastern Texas Bridge. Confederates are suffering from the measles and yellow fever.
• Operations at Blue's Gap (or Hanging Rock), Little Cacapon Bridge, and Paw Paw Tunnel, WV, including Maj. Gen. JEB Stuart's capture of a Union company. (Oct. 4). (Oct 2-4)
• President Lincoln visits with Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, USA, in the field in the vicinity of Antietam, MD to see first hand the status of the Army of the Potomac and to prod McClellan to move quickly after the damaged Army of Northern Virginia.

Friday October 2 1863

• Skirmish at Vance's Store, AR.
• Skirmish at Carthage, MO.
• Skirmish at Anderson's Cross-Roads, TN.
• Skirmish near Chattanooga, TN, with Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler's CSA Cavalry, contesting the roads into Chattanooga.
• Skirmish near Dunlap, TN.
• Skirmish at Greeneville, TN.
• Skirmish on the Valley road, near Jasper, TN.
• Skirmish at Pitt's Cross-Roads, Sequatchie Valley, TN, on the only open road available for the 11th and 12th US Army Corps, currently at Bridgeport, AL, to reach Chattanooga, in through the Sequatchie Valley.

Sunday October 2 1864

• Skirmish at Big Shanty and the Kennesaw Water Tank, GA, as Lieut. Gen. John B. Hood's, CSA, tear up the track of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, which is Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's, USA, supply line.
• Skirmish at the crossing of Flat Rock and McDonough roads, GA.
• Skirmish near Sand Mountain, GA.
• Skirmishes at Shadna Church and Westbrook's, near Fairburn, GA.
• Skirmishes at the Sweet Water and Noyes' Creeks, near Powder Springs, GA. (Oct 2-3)
• Federal expeditions to the Amite River, New River, and Bayou Manchac, LA. (Oct 2-8)
• The Confederate occupation of Washington, MO, which is 50 miles west of St. Louis, MO, by Maj. Gen. Sterling Price, CSA.
• Operations in Southwest Mississippi and East Louisiana, including skirmish at Marianna, FL. (Oct 2-11)
• Descent on Fayette, MS.
• Skirmish near Columbia, TN, with Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA.
• Skirmish at Bridgewater, Shenandoah Valley, VA.
• Skirmish at Mount Crawford, Shenandoah Valley, VA.
• Federal action by Bvt. Maj. Gen. Stephen A. Burbridge, USA, near the Confederate salt-works at Saltville, VA, is repulsed.

Monday October 2 1865