Monday August 5 1861

• The blockade runner, the CSS Alvarado, is captured and burned off the Florida coast near Fernandina, FL, by the US steamer, the USS Vincennes.
• Skirmish at Athens, MO.
• Brig. Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, USA, retreats from Dug Springs, MO, towards Springfield.
• Skirmish in Virginia, opposite Point of Rocks, MD.

Tuesday August 5 1862

• Albert Gallatin Jenkins, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Skirmish near New Market, AL, where Brig. Gen. Robert Latimer McCook, USA, is mortally wounded.
• Brig. Gen. Robert Latimer McCook, USA, is mortally wounded, shot in the abdomen. Scouting the area for a campsite for his troops, between Athens, GA, and Decherd, TN, he was riding in a carriage because of camp fever he developed, was overcome by Confederate partisans and shot by Capt. Frank Gurley.
• Federal expedition from Helena to the mouth of the White River, AR, with the Union gunboat, Benton, the steamers, latan, Louisville, and the Mound City, and the rams, Bragg, Monarch, and Switzerland. (Aug 5-8)
• Engagement at Baton Rouge, LA, including the CSS gunboat, CSS Arkansas, with the Confederates, under Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge, CSA, repulsed by Brig. Gen. Thomas Williams, USA.
• Brig. Gen. Thomas Williams, USA, is instantly killed at Baton Rouge, LA, while leading his men against the Confederate forces under Maj. Gen. John Cabell Breckinridge, CSA, receiving his death wound in the chest by a Confederate musketball, at the beginning of the Union countercharge.
• Skirmish near Cravensville, Daviess County, MO.
• Skirmish at Montevallo, MO, with the Union occupation of the town.
• Skirmish at Sparta, TN.
• Federal expedition from Fredericksburg to Fredericks's Hall Station, VA, with skirmishes, as Brig. Gen. Gibbon, USA, is engaged. (Aug 5-8)
• Engagement at Malvern Hill, VA.
• Skirmish at Thornburg, or Massaponax Church, VA.
• Skirmish at White Oak Swamp Bridge, VA.
• Skirmish at Wyoming Court-House, WV.

Wednesday August 5 1863

• Maj. Gen. Frederick Steele, USA, assumes command of the Federal forces at Helena, AR.
• Skirmish at Mount Pleasant, MS.
• Federal expedition from Kempsville, VA, into Currituck and Camden Counties, NC, with some Rebel prisoners. (Aug 5-12)
• Engagement at Dutch Gap, James River, VA, with the US ironclads, USS Cohassett, and with the USS Commodore Barney, sustaining damages from the explosion of a Confederate electronic torpedo.
• Skirmish at Little Washington, VA.
• Skirmish near Rixeyville Ford, near Culpeper, VA.
• Skirmish at Muddy Run, VA, toward Culpeper, as the Union Cavalry under Brig. Gen. David McM. Gregg, USA, find a considerable force of the enemy.
• Brig. Gen. William Wood Averell's, USA, raid into West Virginia. (Aug 5-31)
• Brig. Gen. William Averell's, USA, expedition sets out from Winchester, VA, into West Virginia.
• Skirmish at Cold Spring Gap, WV, with Brig. Gen. William W.Averell, USA.

Friday August 5 1864

• Philip Cook, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Archibald Campbell Godwin, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Joseph Abel Haskin, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• The passage of Fort Morgan, Mobile, AL, by the US fleet, including the monitors, Chickasaw, Manhattan, Tecumseh, and Winnebago, and engagement in Mobile Bay, AL, by Admiral Daniel Farragut, USN.
• US monitor, Tecumseh, is sunk by a torpedo near Fort Morgan, AL.
• The capture of the Confederate ram, Tennessee, and the gun-boat, Selma, AL, by Admiral Farragut during the Battle of Mobile Bay, AL.
• Fort Powell, AL, is evacuated by the Confederates, after being bombarded from the rear by the ironclad USS Chickasaw that passed Fort Morgan.
• Skirmish near Remount Camp, AR, as the Yankees lose men when the Confederates, dressed in Union garb, surprise attack them.
• Skirmish at Concordia Bayou, LA.
• Affair at Doyal's Plantation, LA, where the Federals are surrounded by the Confederates, but refuse to surrender, and escape by cutting a path through the Rebels.
• Skirmish at Olive Branch, LA.
• Skirmish at Keedysville, MD.
• Skirmishes at Williamsport and Hagerstown, MD.
• Skirmish at Cabin Point, VA, the Richmond, VA, Campaign.
• The explosion of a Confederate mine in front of the 18th US Army Corps, the Richmond, VA, Campaign.
• Skirmish at Huttonsville, WV.

Saturday August 5 1865