Thursday October 24 1861

• Attack on Camp Joe Underwood, KY, by Col. R. D. Allison, CSA, 14th TN Infantry.
• Maj. Gen. David Hunter, USA, is ordered to supersede Maj. Gen. John Charles Fremont, USA, in the command of the Western Dept., MO.
• President Lincoln attends the funeral for Maj. Gen. Edward D. Baker, killed October 21, 1861, at the Battle of Ball's Bluff, or Leesburg, VA.

Friday October 24 1862

• Skirmish near Fayetteville, AR.
• Operations in the La Fourche District, LA. (Oct 24-Nov 11)
• Federal expedition from Independence to Greenton, Chapel Hill, Hopewell, etc., MO. (Oct 24-26)
• The CSS Alabama continues to prowl the Atlantic, this time burning the whaling vessel, Lafayette, off Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• Affair on Saint Helena Island, SC.
• The Dept. of the Cumberland, TN, is re-established, and Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, USA, is assigned to command, Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell, USA, is relieved of command after failing to prevent Gen. Braxton Bragg from leaving Kentucky.
• The 13th US Army Corps is constituted, TN.
• Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk, CSA, is temporarily in command of Confederate Dept. No. 2, TN.
• Skirmish near White Oak Springs, TN.
• Skirmishes at Manassas Junction and near Bristoe Station, VA.

Saturday October 24 1863

• Skirmishes at Tuscumbia, AL. (Oct 24-25)
• Skirmish at the Buffalo Mountains, AR, with Col. Shelby, CSA.
• Federal expedition from Goodrich's Landing, LA, to Griffin's Landing, Washington County, and Catfish Point, MS, aboard the steamers, Adams, Baltic, Fairchild, and Homer, capturing a Rebel agent with $12,000 in Confederate money who was purchasing livestock to feed the Confederates soldiers. Many fine fat hogs, etc, were sent to the ram Monarch, lying off Greenville. The Federals also captured the rebel mail-carrier, cotton, etc. The Confederates burn the steamer, Allen Collier, that had landed opposite Laconia, AR. The Federals burn the plantation and home of a local well-known guerrilla. (Oct 24-Nov 24)
• Skirmish at Washington, LA, with Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin, US A.
• Skirmish near Harrisonville, MO, with Col. Joseph Shelby, CSA.
• Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, USA, assumes the command of the Army of the Tennessee, with vice Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USA, commanding the Military Division of the Mississippi, and arriving at Chattanooga, TN, to take charge and orders a supply line, "the cracker line," to be established for the beleaguered Union troops there.
• Skirmish at Bealeton, VA.
• Skirmish at Liberty, VA.

Monday October 24 1864

• Brig. Gen. James Jay Archer, CSA, dies from deteriorating health developed as a Federal prisoner of war after being captured Jul 3, 1863 with most of his brigade of Heth's division at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa. Exchanged, he died in his nation's capital, of Richmond, VA.
• Federal scout from Pine Bluff toward Mount Elba, AR. (Oct 24-27)
• Skirmish near Magnolia, FL, where Union Cavalry battle the Confederate forces stationed near Waldo, with casualties.
• Skirmish near South River, GA.
• Federal operations in Issaquena and Washington Counties, MS, and skirmish (Oct 25) at Steele's Bayou, as the Yankees capture cotton, horses, mules, sheep, beef-cattle, in addition to prominent rebels. (Oct 24-31)
• Maj. Gen. Sterling Price, CSA, concludes his Missouri expedition, moving his long train of captured Federal supplies along the Kansas state line.

Tuesday October 24 1865