Saturday September 21 1861

• Albert Gallatin Blanchard, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Edward Dickinson Baker, U.S.A., is appointed Maj. Gen.
• Federal reconnaissance toward Columbus, and skirmish at Mayfield Creek, KY, by Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USA. (Sep 21-22)
• Brig. Gen. Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, USA, assumes the command of the Dept. of the Ohio, KY.
• Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, CSA, calls upon the state of Tennessee for 30,000 men.
• Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk is assigned to the command of the 1st (or Western) Division, the Confederate Dept. No. 2, TN.
• Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA, is in immediate command of the Confederate forces in the Valley of the Kanawha, WV.

Sunday September 21 1862

• Affair at the San Pedro Crossing, the Arizona Territory.
• Affair on the Yreka Road, near Fort Crook, CA.
• Federal expedition from Carrollton to Donaldsonville, LA, and skirmish, as the Federal landing party after sugar, etc, was forced to retreat. (Sep 21-25)
• Skirmish at Cassville, MO.
• Skirmish near Van Buren, TN.

Monday September 21 1863

• Brig. Gen. Benjamin Hardin Helm, CSA, dies from battle wounds received the day before at the Battle of Chickamauga, TN, whose death is mourned by his brother-in-law, President Abraham Lincoln, and his sister, Mary Todd Lincoln.
• Armistead Lindsay Long, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Skirmishes at Rossville, Lookout Church, and Dry Valley, GA, the Chickamauga Campaign.
• The Army of the Cumberland retreats to Chattanooga, TN, as Gen. Braxton Bragg, CSA, fails to order a thrust against the defeated Federals, thus missing a major opportunity to inflict further damages on the defeated Union army, the Chickamauga Campaign. (Sep 21-22)
• Action at Jonesborough, TN.
• Skirmish at Fisher's Hill, VA.
• Skirmish at Madison Court-House, VA, with the Federal reconnaissance party.
• Federal operations about Princess Anne Court-House, VA, near Fog Island, Back Bay and to Knott's Island, in the Great Dismal Swamp where guerrillas were supposed to be camping. (Sep 21-25)
• Federal reconnaissance across the Rapidan River, VA, including to Madison Court-House, Wolftown, Burtonsville, Standardsville, Orange Court-House, and Liberty Mills with the capture of Confederate supply wagons and beef-cattle near Gordonsville, by Brig. Gens. John Buford and Judson Kilpatrick's US Cavalry. (Sep 21-23)
• Skirmishes at White's Ford, VA, with the Federal reconnaissance party that crossed the Rapidan River. (Sep 21-22)
• Federal scout from Harper's Ferry, WV, into Loudoun County Valley, VA, and skirmish (Sep 25) near Upperville, VA, with men under Maj. John S. Mosby, CSA. (Sep 21-26)
• Affair at Moorefield, WV.

Wednesday September 21 1864

• Affair near Council Grove, KS, as two normally peaceful, but drunk, Indians pull knives on some Union men, swearing they will kill them unless they give them some whiskey. One of the Union men picks up a rifle and bayonets one of the Indians.
• Federal expeditions from Vicksburg to Deer Creek, MS, and skirmishes near Rolling Fork. (Sep 22-23). (Sep 21-26)
• Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA, crosses the Tennessee River, TN, and moves on Athens.
• Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, USA, is assigned to the permanent command of the Middle Military Division, VA.
• Skirmish at Fisher's Hill, VA, as both Lieut. Gen. Jubal A. Early, CSA, and Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, USA, dig in.
• Skirmish at Front Royal, VA, the Shenandoah Valley, Campaign.
• Skirmish at Strasburg, VA, the Shenandoah Valley, Campaign.

Thursday September 21 1865