Thursday August 29 1861

• Skirmish at Morse's Mills, near Lexington, MO.

Friday August 29 1862

• John Gregg, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Godfrey Weitzel, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Skirmish between Big Hill and Richmond, KY.
• Engagement between the USS Anglo-American and the Port Hudson, LA, Confederate batteries.
• Skirmish near Saint Charles Court-House, LA.
• Skirmish at Bloomfield, MO.
• Skirmish near Iberia, MO.
• Federal expeditions from Waynesville, MO, with skirmish at the California House, etc. (Aug 29-Sep 7)
• Brig. Gen. Frederick Steele, USA, assumes the command of the Army of the Southwest, MO, etal.
• Gen. Pierre G. T. Beauregard, CSA, assumes the command of the Confederate Dept. of South Carolina and Georgia, relieving Maj. Gen. John C. Pemberton, CSA.
• Skirmishes at Short Mountain Cross-Roads (Aug 29), and Little Ford (Aug 30), near McMinnville, TN. (Aug 29-30)
• The Battle of Groveton, or Manassas Plains, VA, as Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, CSA, encounters Maj. Gens. John Pope, Fitz John Porter, and Irvin McDowell, USA.

Saturday August 29 1863

• Goode Bryan, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• William Whedbee Kirkland, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Skirmish at Caperton's Ferry, Tennessee River, AL, the Chickamauga Campaign.
• Union mutiny at Camp Hubbard, Thibodeauz, LA, where the two Union Private ringleaders are court martialed and shot to death in front of the entire command there. (Aug 29-30)
• Skirmish at Texas Prairie, MO, with a gang of bushwackers.
• Five Confederate seamen drown during the initial trial run of the experimental submarine, H.L. Hunley, Charleston Harbor, Charleston, SC.

Monday August 29 1864

• Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's, CSA, Missouri Expedition, in an attempt to retake Missouri for the Confederacy. (Aug 29-Dec 2)
• Maj. Gen. Sterling Price, CSA, assumes the command of the expeditionary forces at Princeton, AR.
• Federal expedition up White River from Helena, AR, with affair (Sep 3) at Kendal's Grist-Mill, AR. (Aug 29-Sep 3)
• Skirmish at Milton, FL, as the Federals travel from Barrancas aboard the steamers, Clinton and Planter, to confront the Confederate Cavalry at Milton.
• Skirmish near Red Oak, GA, as Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, USA, prepares to tighten the noose on Atlanta, GA, and Lieut. Gen. John Bell Hood, CSA.
• Skirmish near Ghent, KY.
• The attack on the Federal steamer, White Cloud, on the Mississippi River, near Port Hudson, LA, partly disabling her, while the Choteau escapes major damage further up the river.
• Operations in East Tennessee, including skirmishes at Park's Gap and at Greeneville, (Sep 4), and the death of Brig. Gen. John H. Morgan, CSA. (Aug 29-Sep 4)
• Skirmish at Charlestown, WV, the Shenandoah Valley, VA, Campaign.
• Engagement at Smithfield Crossing of the Opequon, WV, with Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan, USA, defeating Lieut. Gen. Jubal A. Early, CSA.

Tuesday August 29 1865