Saturday August 24 1861

• The Dept. of Pennsylvania is absorbed into the Dept. of the Potomac, also known as "The Army of the Potomac."
• Jefferson Davis, Richmond, VA, appoints the following commissioners to represent the Confederacy in Europe:
  • John Slidell - France
  • James M. Mason - Great Britain
  • Pierre A. Rost - Spain

Sunday August 24 1862

• The CSS Alabama is officially commissioned off the island of Terceira, Azores, to begin a two year career of plundering US merchant vessels.
• Affair near Bloomfield, MO.
• Skirmish on Coon Creek, near Lamar, MO.
• Skirmish on Crooked Creek, near Dallas, MO.
• Federal scout from Salem to Current River, MO. (Aug 24-28)
• Maj. Gen. John Porter McCown, CSA, is assigned temporarily to command of the Dept. of East Tennessee.
• Actions at Waterloo Bridge, VA, Second Bull Run, as Gen Robert E. Lee, CSA, puts his army in motion northward. (Aug 24-25)

Monday August 24 1863

• Skirmish at Gunter's Landing, near Port Deposit, AL, the Chickamauga Campaign.
• Federal scout to Barbee's Cross-Roads, VA.
• Skirmish at Coyle's Tavern, near Fairfax Court-House, VA.
• Skirmish near King George Court-House, VA, and Port Conway, with Union Cavalry under Brig. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick, USA.
• Maj. John Mosby's Confederate Operations in Virginia, including the attacking of the Union outpost near Waterloo, the burning of bridges, capturing prisoners, horses, mules, and sutler's goods near Warrenton Junction, Alexandria. (Aug 24-Sep 30)
• Skirmish near Warm Springs, VA, with Brig. Gen. William W. Averell, USA.

Wednesday August 24 1864

• Action at Ashley's and Jones' (Hay) Stations, near Devall's Bluff, AR, as Brig. Gen. Joseph O. Shelby, CSA, attacks Maj. Gen. Frederick Steele's Federals, destroying telegraph lines, tearing up railroad tracks, torching hay and machinery. Steele requests a Union gunboat.
• Skirmish on Gunter's Prairie, the Indian Territory, where the Federals kill 20 Rebels and capture 14, as well as 150 mules and horses, and burn a large quantity of hay.
• Skirmish at Annandale, VA, with Lieut. Col. John S. Mosby, 43rd Virginia Battalion and his Virginia Partisan Irregulars.
• Skirmish near Reams' Station, VA, on the Weldon Railroad, the Richmond, VA, Campaign.
• Action on the Vaughan Road, near Reams' Station, VA, the Richmond, VA, Campaign.
• Skirmish at Halltown, WV, the Shenandoah Valley, VA, Campaign.
• Affair at Huttonsville, WV.
• Skirmish at Sutton, WV.

Thursday August 24 1865