Friday October 11 1861

• Edmund Kirby Smith, C.S.A., is appointed Maj. Gen.
• Richard Johnson, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Thomas John Wood, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Lieut. Col. Albemarle Cady, 7th US Infantry, is assigned to the command of the District of Oregon.
• Operations against Indians (Lipans) from Fort Inge, TX, by Serg. W. Barrett, CSA Cavalry. (Oct 11-16)
• Brig. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, USA, assumes the command of the Dept. of Western Virginia.
• Skirmish at Harper's Ferry, WV.

Saturday October 11 1862

• James Bowen, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Skirmish near Helena, AR.
• Skirmish at Danville, KY.
• Harrodsburg, KY, is reoccupied by the Union forces.
• Skirmish at Lawrenceburg, KY.
• The territories of Colorado and Nebraska are added to the Dept. of Missouri.
• Operations in Lewis, Clarke, Scotland, and Schuyler Counties, MO, including the capture of guerrillas.
• The CSS Alabama captures and burns the Manchester, off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Skirmish near Gettysburg, PA, with JEB Stuart's CSA, Cavalry.
• The Confederate Congress in Richmond, VA, votes to exempt from conscription, all men owning 20 or more slaves, causing some to remark that it's a poor man's war.

Sunday October 11 1863

• Confederate demonstration against Fayetteville, AR.
• Skirmish at Brazil Creek, Choctaw Nation, the Indian Territory.
• Skirmishes at, and the capture of, Boonville, MO, on the Missouri River, by Col. Joseph O. Shelby's, CSA, Cavalry. (Oct 11-12)
• Action at Colliersville, TN, with Brig. Gen James Ronald Chalmers, CSA.
• Skirmishes at Henderson's Mill and Rheatown, East TN.
• Skirmish near Culpeper Court-House, VA, with Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA.
• Skirmishes at Griffinsburg, Culpeper, and Brandy Station, VA.
• Skirmishes at Morton's Ford, Stevensburg, and near Kelly's Ford, VA, with Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA.
• Skirmish near Warrenton, or Sulphur Springs, VA, with Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA.
• Skirmish at Salt Lick Bridge, WV.

Tuesday October 11 1864

• The Confederate attack on the steamer, Resolute, on the White River, 12 miles above Clarendon, AR, by bushwackers who fire into the vessel.
• Federal expedition from Atlanta to Hat Creek, GA, and skirmishes, as Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, USA, concentrates his forces around Rome, GA; Lieut. Gen. John B. Hood, CSA, is just south of the city. (Oct 11-14)
• Skirmishes near Boonville, MO, as Maj. Gen. Sterling Price, CSA, continues with the Confederate thrust into Missouri. (Oct 11-12)
• Skirmish at Brunswick, MO, with Maj. Gen. Sterling Price, CSA.
• Federal scout from Camp Palmer to Gum Swamp, NC, as the Yankees capture some Rebels as well as some black men hired by the Confederate Government to work on the railroad there. (Oct 11-13)
• Skirmish near Fort Donelson, TN, as Confederate Cavalry fails to raid the Union black recruiting post there.
• Federal scout toward Stony Creek Station, the Richmond, VA, Campaign.
• Skirmish near White Plains, VA.
• Bvt. Maj. Gen. Alfred H. Terry, USA, is in temporary command of the 10th US Army Corps, the Richmond, VA, Campaign.
• Skirmish 2 miles south of Petersburg, WV, with some of Brig. Gen. John D. Imboden's Confederate cavalry.

Wednesday October 11 1865