Saturday November 2 1861

• John Cabell Breckenridge, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Gen. John Charles Fremont, USA, is relieved by Maj. Gen. David Hunter, USA, in Missouri.
• Federal operations from Bird's Point, Cape Girardeau, and Ironton, MO, against M. Jeff Thompson's Partisan Confederate forces. (Nov 2-12)

Sunday November 2 1862

• Skirmish at Castleman's Ferry, near Snicker's Gap, VA, as Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, USA, Marches onward into Virginia.
• Skirmishes at Union and Upperville, VA. (Nov 2-3)

Monday November 2 1863

• Skirmish at Bayou Bourbeau, LA, as Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin, USA, retires from Opelousas.
• Skirmish at Corinth, MS.
• President Jefferson Davis arrives at Charleston, SC, and observes first hand the continued Federal bombardment of Fort Sumter.
• Skirmish at Centreville, TN.
• Skirmish at Piney Factory, TN.
• Brazos Island, TX, is occupied by the expeditionary Union forces under Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, USA, arriving from New Orleans, LA, aboard the USS Monongahela, Owasco, and the Virginia.
• Brig. Gen. John McNeil, USA, assumes command of the District of the Frontier.

Wednesday November 2 1864

• Affair at Hazen's Farm, near Devall's Bluff, AR, as a party of Yankees sent to collect bricks at the Hazen's Farm, were captured, robbed, then paroled by the Confederates.
• Federal expedition from Little Rock to Benton, AR. (Nov 2-3)
• The Federal gunboat, USS Key West and the USS Tawah, attack the captured gun-boat, Undine, and the transports, Cheesemen, and the Venus, at Davidson's Ferry, Tennessee River, TN, including the Federal recapture of the vessel, Venus, from Maj. Gen. Nathan B. Forrest, CSA, who had captured these vessel the previous days. Forrest had been sailing up the Tennessee River towards Johnsonville, TN, but was forced to retire to the safety of the Confederate batteries near Fort Henry. (Nov 2-3)

Thursday November 2 1865