Monday November 4 1861

• Maj. Gen. John Adams Dix, USA, directs that Negroes not be allowed to come within certain military lines in Maryland.
• Operations in the Valley District, VA. (Nov 4-Feb 21, 1862)
• Maj. Gen. Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, CSA, assumes the command of the Shenandoah Valley District, at Winchester, VA.

Tuesday November 4 1862

• Martin Luther Smith, C.S.A., is appointed Maj. Gen.
• The following are appointed Confederate Brigadier Generals:
  • William Robertson Boggs, CSA
  • William George Mackey Davis, CSA
  • Archibald Gracie, Jr., CSA
  • Evander McNair, CSA
  • James Edward Rains, CSA
• The Confederate saltworks at Kingsbury, GA, are destroyed by the Federal troops.
• Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard's Confederate command is extended to the Choctawhatchee River, SC.
• La Grange and Grand Junction, TN, are occupied by Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USA, in preparation of an assault on Vicksburg, MS.
• Skirmish at Manassas Gap, VA.
• Skirmish at Markham's Station, VA.
• Skirmish at Salem, VA.

Wednesday November 4 1863

• Skirmish at Maysville, AL.
• Skirmish in the Pinal Mountains on the Gila River, the Arizona Territory.
• Federal expedition from Houston to Jack's Fork, and in Reynolds, Shannon, and Oregon counties, MO.
• Skirmish near Lexington, MO, with bushwackers.
• Skirmish at and near Neosho, MO. (Nov 4-6)
• Federal expedition aboard transports and supported by the Union gunboats, Delaware, Miami and Whitehead, up the Chowan River, NC, to within 2 miles of the mouth of the Blackwater. (Nov 4-9)
• Skirmish near Rocky Run, NC, with bushwackers.
• The Knoxville (Tennessee) Campaign. (Nov 4-Dec 23)
• Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet's Confederate Corps is detached from the Army of Tennessee, in part due to his inability to get along with Gen. Braxton Bragg, CSA, and his operations against Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's, USA, Union forces in East Tennessee, around Knoxville, TN.
• Skirmish at Motley's Ford, Little Tennessee River, TN, as the Federals got near the river just as a Confederate regiment was crossing the river. They charged them and drove them into the river, where at least 50 were killed or drowned in crossing.
• Skirmish at Falmouth, VA.
• Skirmish near Cackleytown, WV, during the Union Cavalry expedition to Lewisburg, WV

Friday November 4 1864

• William MacRae, CS A, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Peter Burwell Starke, CS A, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge's, CSA, Confederate advance into East Tennessee. (Nov 4-17)
• The destruction of the gun-boats, the Tawah (No. 29), Key West (No. 32), and the Elfin (No.52), Tennessee River, TN, near Johnsonville, TN, by Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA, and his captured vessels with the assistance of Confederate shore batteries. Forrest loses the captured Undine, but accomplishes his goal of disrupting Federal supply line and water traffic to the estimated damage of $6,700,000, after bombarding Johnsonville. Forrest moves south to meet up with Lieut. Gen. John B. Hood, CSA, via Corinth, MS.
• Action at Johnsonville, TN, this encounter concludes Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's latest expedition. (Nov 4-5)

Saturday November 4 1865