Friday November 29 1861

• John Franklin Farnsworth, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• The capture of the Confederate Showalter Party at Warner's Ranch, southeast of Los Angeles, CA.
• Brig. Gen. John McAllister Schofield, USA, assumes the command of the Missouri Militia.
• Judge Humphreys issues a writ of habeas corpus in the cases of certain bridge-burners. The writ, however, is not obeyed by the military, East Tennessee.

Saturday November 29 1862

• The following are appointed Union Major Generals:
  • Hiram Gregory Berry, U.S.A.
  • Francis Preston Blair, Jr., U.S.A.
  • James Gillpatrick Blunt, U.S.A.
  • Daniel Butterfield, U.S.A.
  • Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana, U.S.A.
  • William Henry French, U.S.A.
  • Winfield Scott Hancock, U.S.A.
  • Francis Jay Herron, U.S.A.
  • John Alexander Logan, U.S.A.
  • George Gordon Meade, U.S.A.
  • Robert Huston Milroy, U.S.A.
  • Richard James Oglesby, U.S.A.
  • John McCauley Palmer, U.S.A.
  • Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, U.S.A.
  • John Fulton Reynolds, U.S.A.
  • Joseph Jones Reynolds, U.S.A.
  • John McAllister Schofield, U.S.A.
  • Daniel Edgar Sickles, U.S.A.
  • David Sloane Stanley, U.S.A.
  • Frederick Steele, U.S.A.
  • George Stoneman, U.S.A.
  • George Sykes, U.S.A.
  • Cadwallader Colden Washburn, U.S.A.
• The following are appointed Union Brigadier Generals:
  • James Barnes, USA
  • John Beatty, USA
  • Samuel Beatty, USA
  • Egbert Benson Brown, USA
  • Robert Christie Buchanan, USA
  • Ralph Pomeroy Buckland, USA
  • Charles Thomas Campbell, USA
  • Stephen Gardner Champlin, USA
  • Joseph Tarr Copeland, USA
  • Marcellus Monroe Crocker, USA
  • Lysander Cutler, USA
  • George Washington Deitzler, USA
  • Elias Smith Dennis, USA
  • Charles Cleveland Dodge, USA
  • William Dwight, USA
  • Hugh Boyle Ewing, USA
  • Theophilus Toulmin Garrard, USA
  • Charles Kinnaird Graham, USA
  • David McMurtrie Gregg, USA
  • James Allen Bardie, USA
  • Edward Harland, USA
  • William Harrow, USA
  • Isham Nicholas Haynie, USA
  • Alexander Hays, USA
  • Charles Adam Heckman, USA
  • Edward Winslow Hincks, USA
  • Edward Henry Hobson, USA
  • Lewis Cass Hunt, USA
  • John Haskell King, USA
  • Edward Needles Kirk, USA
  • Joseph Farmer Knipe, USA
  • Vladimir Kryzanowski, USA
  • Michael Kelly Lawler, USA
  • Albert Lindley Lee, USA
  • Mortimer Dormer Leggett, USA
  • William Haines Lytle, USA
  • George Francis McGinnis, USA
  • Nathaniel Collins McLean, USA
  • James Winning McMillan, USA
  • John McNeil, USA
  • Oilman Marston, USA
  • John Sanford Mason, USA
  • Charles Leopold Matthies, USA
  • Sullivan Amory Meredith, USA
  • William Hopkins Morris, USA
  • James St. Clair Morton, USA
  • Thomas Hewson Neill, USA
  • Franklin Stillman Nickerson, USA
  • William Ward Orme, USA
  • Joshua Thomas Owen, USA
  • Thomas Gamble Pitcher, USA
  • Orlando Metcalfe Poe, USA
  • Edward Elmer Potter, USA
  • Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom, USA
  • Thomas Algeo Rowley, USA
  • Thomas Howard Ruger, USA
  • David Allen Russell, USA
  • Adam Jacoby Slemmer, USA
  • John Eugene Smith, USA
  • John Dunlap Stevenson, USA
  • George Crockett Strong, USA
  • David Stuart, USA
  • Frederick Shearer Stumbaugh, USA
  • Thomas William Sweeny, USA
  • Davis Tillson, USA
  • Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, USA
  • Robert Ogden Tyler, USA
  • William Vandever, USA
  • Israel Vogdes, USA
  • George Day Wagner, USA
  • Joseph Dana Webster, USA
  • Thomas Welsh, USA
  • Frank Wheaton, USA
  • David Henry Williams, USA
  • Nelson Grosvenor Williams, USA
  • Isaac Jones Wistar, USA
  • Samuel Kosciuszko Zook, USA
• Ex-Marshal George B. Kane, of Baltimore, MD, after 17 months' imprisonment, arrives in Baltimore and denounces Secretary of State William H. Seward in a newspaper card.
• Skirmish at Lumpkin's Mill, MS.
• Skirmishes at Waterford, MS. (Nov 29-30)
• Federal reconnaissance from Stewart's Ferry, Stone's River, to Baird's Mills, TN, and skirmishes en route. (Nov 29-Dec 1)
• Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder, CSA, assumes the command of the District of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.

Sunday November 29 1863

• Skirmishes on the Cumberland River, KY, where the pursuing Federals capture 15 Rebels and kill the notorious thief and rebel, Capt. Belbo.
• Attack on Bloomfield, MO, and the pursuit of the Confederates to Brown's Ferry, AR. (Nov 29-30)
• The Assault on Fort Sanders, (or Fort Loudon) Knoxville, TN, by Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet, CSA, is repulsed and the attempt by the Confederates to eradicate the Federals from Knoxville, TN, is ended, as Longstreet will retreat toward Virginia, fully aware that reinforcements under Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, USA, are on their way.
• Confederate evacuation of Fort Esperanza, Matagorda Bay, TX.
• Skirmish at Brentsville, VA.
• Skirmish near Jonesville, VA.
• Skirmish at New Hope Church, VA, the Mine Run Campaign.
• Action at Parker's Store, VA, the Mine Run Campaign.
• President Abraham Lincoln begins his recovery from smallpox.

Tuesday November 29 1864

• Robert Bullock, CS A, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• The Confederate Cavalry attack on the steamer, Alamo, on the Arkansas River, near Dardanelle, AR, the Rebels inflicting little damage to the vessel and men aboard except for riddling the vessel with 87 bullet holes.
• The engagement with Cheyenne Indians on Sand Creek, the Colorado Territory, with the Union massacre of Cheyenne women and children, 40 miles south of Fort Lyon, Denver, by Col. John M. Chivington, 1st Colorado Cavalry.
• Skirmish near Louisville, GA, as Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, USA, continues on his March to the sea.
• Skirmish at Doyal's Plantation, LA, with a small party of jayhawkers, near Donaldsonville.
• Federal scout from Warrensburg to the Greenton Valley, MO, against guerrillas. (Nov 29-Dec 3)
• Skirmish near Boyd's Landing, SC.
• Action at the Colubia Ford, TN.
• Skirmish at Mount Carmel, TN.
• Skirmish near Rally Hill, TN.
• The Engagement at Spring Hill (or Thompson's Creek), TN, as Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield, USA, retreats to Franklin, TN, after the Confederates crossed the Duck River and attempted to flank the Yankees, blocking the way to Franklin and Nashville. Lieut. Gen. John Bell Hood, CSA, pursues.
• The affair at Thompson's Station, TN.
• Skirmish at Charlestown, WV, as the Rebel night attack is driven off.

Wednesday November 29 1865