Friday August 9 1861

• Daniel Ruggles, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• The following are appointed Union Brigadier Generals:
  • Louis Ludwig Blenker, USA
  • John Henry Martindale, USA
  • George Webb Morrell, USA
  • Israel Bush Richardson, USA
  • Henry Warner Slocum, USA
  • James Samuel Wadsworth, USA

Saturday August 9 1862

• Brig. Gen. Joseph Bennett Plummer, USA, dies near Corinth, MS, while in camp, from camp fever.
• Christopher Columbus Auger, U.S.A., is appointed Maj. Gen.
• The Battle of Cedar Run, or Cedar (or Slaughter) Mountain, VA, sees Maj. Gen. Stonewall Jackson's forces defeating Maj. Gen. John Pope, USA, and Maj. Gen. A. P. Hill, CSA, beating back a Federal offensive under Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks, USA. Total casualties approximate 3,700.
• Brig. Gen. Charles Sidney Winder, CSA, is horribly wounded and mangled by a Federal artillery shell at the Battle of Cedar Run, VA, and dies within hours.
• US Naval bombardment of Donaldsonville, LA.
• Skirmish at Salem, MO.
• Skirmishes at Walnut Creek, and at Sears' Ford, Chariton River, MO.
• Federal expedition from Fort Walla Walla to the Grande Ronde Prairie, the Washington Territory. (Aug 9-22)

Sunday August 9 1863

• Eppa Hunton, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Skirmish at Garden Hollow, near Pineville, MO.
• Federal scout from Cape Girardeau to the Ash Hills and Poplar Bluff, MO, and skirmish (Aug 13) at the Ash Hills.
• Skirmish at Sparta, TN.
• Skirmish at Brandy Station, VA.
• Skirmish near Welford's Ford, VA, opposite Beverly Ford, where a Union party crosses and is almost immediately sent fleeing back across the river.

Tuesday August 9 1864

• The Federal siege of Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay, AL, begins as the Federals surround the fort, now that Forts Gaines and Powell had surrendered. (Aug 9-22)
• Skirmish near Pond Springs, Northern AL.
• Federal operations in Central Arkansas, with skirmishes with Confederates, guerrillas and bushwackers (Aug 9-15)
• Bvt. Maj. Gen. Jefferson C. Davis, USA, is assigned to the command of the 14th US Corps, GA.
• Skirmish at Hurricane Creek, MS, as Brig. Gen. Joseph A. Mower, USA, moves from La Grange, TN, on Oxford, MS.
• Skirmish at Oxford, MS, with Brig. Gen. Jospeh A. Mower, USA.
• The explosion of Federal ammunition at City Point, VA, takes places as two Confederate agents smuggle a bomb aboard an ordnance supply ship unloading at the docks, causing a chain reaction of explosions, the Richmond, VA, Campaign.
• Affair near Sycamore Church, Richmond, VA.
• Lieut. Col. John S. Mosby's, 43rd Virginia Cavalry Confederate operations in Virginia, including his routing of Federal Cavalry at Fairfax Station (Aug 9), capturing men and horses; an attack (Aug 13) on Berryville and the Union supply train, capturing and destroying 75 loaded wagons, and 200 head of beef cattle, 500 horses, etc., under Brig. Gen. John Reese Kenly, USA; attacking and capturing Yankees at Kernstown and Charlestown (Aug 15), crossing back through Snicker's Gap, and capturing men and horses at Charlestown (Aug 20); attacking and capturing a Federal outpost in Fairfax (Sep. 3); attacking the Yankees around Berryville and near Charlestown, (Sep. 5), and attacking the Federal rear near Charlestown, (Sep. 8). (Aug 9-Oct 14)

Wednesday August 9 1865