Thursday September 19 1861

• Gustavus Woodson Smith, C.S.A., is appointed Maj. Gen.
• Earl Van Dorn, C.S.A., is appointed Maj. Gen.
• John Blair Smith Todd, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• The Dept. of the Ohio is reorganized, KY.
• Action at Barboursville, KY, where Brig. Gen. Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, CSA, causes a general retreat of Federal troops from the area.
• The Dept. of Western Virginia is constituted.

Friday September 19 1862

• William Edwin Baldwin, CSA, is promoted Brig. Gen.
• William Edmondson Jones, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Charles Smith Hamilton, U.S.A., is appointed Maj. Gen.
• The following are appointed Union Brigadier Generals:
  • Francis Channing Barlow, USA
  • Gustavus Adolphus Smith, USA
  • Francis Laurens Vinton, USA
• Skirmish near Helena, AR, with Federal pickets and Texas Rangers.
• Operations in the Indian Territory. (Sep 19-24)
• Skirmishes at Horse Cave and Bear Wallow, KY.
• Skirmish at Southerland's Farm, KY.
• Skirmishes at Sharpsburg, Shepherdstown (Blackford's, or Boteler's) Ford, and near Williamsport, MD, as Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, USA, begins to move after the retreating Confederate Army of the Northern Virginia.
• Skirmish at Barnett's Corners, MS.
• Confederate small arms attack on the Queen of the West, near Bolivar, MS.
• The Engagement at Iuka, MS. Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, USA, defeats Maj. Gen. Sterling Price, CSA. Total casualties approximate 2,350.
• Brig. Gen. Lewis Henry Little, C.S.A., is instantly killed by a musketball to the forehead, while he sat on his horse talking with Maj. Gen. Sterling Price, and Brig. Generals Louis Hebert, and John Wilkins Whitfield, at the engagement at Iuka, MS; the Minie Ball passing under Gen. Price's arm and striking Lewis Henry Little in the forehead.
• Skirmish at Peyton's Mill, MS, between Cavalry forces.
• Skirmish at Prentiss, MS.
• The Dept. of Missouri is re-established and also embraces the Dept. of Kansas, which is discontinued.
• Skirmish at Hickory Grove, MO.
• Affair at Mount Vernon, MO.
• The Confederate Dept. of North Carolina and Southern Virginia. (Dept. of Virginia and of North Carolina) is constituted, under the command of Maj. Gen. Gustavus W. Smith, CSA.
• Skirmishes at Brentwood, TN. (Sep 19-20)
• West Virginia is transferred to the Federal Dept. of the Ohio.

Saturday September 19 1863

• Henry Warner Birge, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Charles Garrison Barker, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Skirmish on the Greenwell Springs Road, near Baton Rouge, LA.
• Skirmish at Bristol, TN.
• The Battle of Chickamauga, TN, begins with Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's, CSA, unmounted Cavalry pitted against Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, USA, with the following generals joining in: Alexander McDowell McCook, USA, and James Longstreet and Leonidas Polk, CSA. (Sep 19-20)
• Brig. Gen. Preston Smith, CSA, is mortally wounded during the Battle of Chickamauga, TN, while directing a night attack, receiving a volley from the Federal detachment of soldiers he accidently rode into.
• Skirmish at Como, TN.
• Federal expedition from Fort Pillow to Jackson, TN. (Sep 19-25)
• Skirmish at Raccoon Ford, VA.

Monday September 19 1864

• Matthew Calbraith Butler, C.S.A., is appointed Maj. Gen.
• James Lawson Kemper, C.S.A., is appointed Maj. Gen.
• Federal expeditions from Natchez to Buck's Ferry (Sep 19-21) and Farrar's Plantation, MS, and skirmishes en route. (Sep 19-22)
• Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's, CSA, Confederate Cavalry column of 12,000 enters Missouri from Arkansas.
• Affair at Doniphan, MO, with Maj. Gen. Sterling Price, CSA.
• Two Confederates, Capt. John Yates Beall, CSN, and Capt. John H. Cole, CSA, plan to capture Union vessels, sail to Johnson's Island, and release the Confederate prisoners there, near Sandusky, OH. Beall captures the Federal steamer, Philo Parons on Lake Erie, then captures and burns the Island Queen. Cole fails to capture the Michigan, forcing Beall to burn the Philo Parsons at Sandwich, Canada, and abandon their plans.
• Skirmish at Culpeper, VA.
• Federal scout to Lee's Mill and Proctor's House, Richmond, VA. Campaign. (Sep 16-17)
• The Battle of Winchester (or the Opeguon), VA, as Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, USA, makes good on his plan to attack Lieut. Gen. Jubal Early, CSA, and his depleted force of 12,000, with fighting taking place along the Opequon River, Martinsburg Pike, Stevensburg Depot, Berryville Pike, etc. Total casualties approximate 7,950. Early is shaken.
• Brig. Gen. Archibald Campbell Godwin, CSA, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Winchester, VA, instantly killed by a Federal artillery shell fragment.
• Brig. Gen. Robert Emmett Rodes, CSA, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Winchester, VA, while leading his men in a counterattack against the Federal lines.
• Brig. Gen. David Allen Russell, USA, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Winchester, VA, instantly killed by a Confederate artillery shell fragment through his heart, while at the head of his command.

Tuesday September 19 1865