Monday August 19 1861

• Henry Wager Halleck, U.S.A., is appointed Maj. Gen.
• John James Peck, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• James Shields, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Skirmish at Charleston, or Bird's Point, MO, across the river from Cairo, IL, with a Union victory over the Missouri State Guard.
• Skirmish at Klapsford, MO.
• Newspaper offices in Easton and West Chester, PA, are raided by Pro-unionist men, while the editor of the Haverhill, MA, newspaper is tarred and feathered by an anti-South mob.

Tuesday August 19 1862

• James Birdseye McPherson, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Orlando Bolivar Willcox, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Skirmish on Clear Creek, AR.
• Federal scout from Woodville to Guntersville, AL, and vicinity. (Aug 19-20)
• Federal Expedition against the Snake Indians in Idaho. (Aug 19-Oct 11)
• Skirmish at Tallulah, LA.
• Sioux Indians move on New Ulm, MN, past Fort Ridgely.
• Federal expedition from Rienzi to Marietta and Bay Springs, MS, and skirmishes. (Aug 19-21)
• The US Dept. of the Ohio is re-established, comprising of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Kentucky east of the Tennessee River; Maj. Gen. Horatio G. Wright, USA, commanding.
• Col. John Hunt Morgan's, CSA, raid on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, with skirmishes:
  • at Pilot Knob,
  • Drakes' Creek, and
  • Manscoe Creek, near Edgefield Junction (Aug 20), and
  • action (Aug 21) on the Hartsville Road, near Gallatin, TN.
    (Aug 19-21)

Wednesday August 19 1863

• Henry Watkins Allen, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• The capture of the Confederate signal station at Saint John's Mill, near Jacksonville, FL, by crew members of the USS Hale and the USS Norwich.
• Skirmish at Weems' Springs, TN.
• The destruction of Confederate saltpeter-works near Franklin, WV, by Brig. Gen. William Woods Averell, USA.

Friday August 19 1864

• Federal scout for Indians on the Republican River, KS. (Aug 19-24)
• Skirmish at Hurricane Creek, MS, with Brig. Gen. Joseph A. Mower, USA.
• Lieut. Gen. A. P. Hill, CSA, attacks the Union forces on the Weldon Railroad, capturing 2,500 and pushing the Federals back, but not away from the railroad, a vital Confederate link.
• Skirmish at Berryville, VA, with Lieut. Gen. Jubal Early, CSA, the Shenandoah Valley, VA, Campaign.
• Skirmish near Opequon Creek, on the Berryville and Winchester Pike, VA, with Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, USA, the Shenandoah Valley, VA, Campaign.
• Skirmish at Franklin, WV.

Saturday August 19 1865