Monday October 7 1861

• The following are appointed Confederate Major Generals:
  • William Joseph Hardee, C.S.A.
  • Theophilus Hunter Holmes, C.S.A.
  • Benjamin Huger, C.S.A.
  • Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, C.S.A.
  • James "Pete" Longstreet, C.S.A.
  • Mansfield Lovell, C.S.A.
  • John Bankhead Magruder, C.S.A.
• Maj. Gen. Braxton Bragg's, CS A, command is extended over the coast and state of Alabama.
• Federal reconnaissance from Cairo, IL, to Lucas Bend, MO, by Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USA aboard the USS Lexington and the USS Tyler.
• President Abraham Lincoln sends Secretary of War, Simon Cameron to deliver a letter to Brig. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis, USA, which asks Curtis if he believed Maj. Gen. John C. Fremont, USA, should be relieved of command.

Tuesday October 7 1862

• Brig. Gen. Allison Nelson, CSA, dies of camp fever in camp, near Austin, AR, after getting sick on Sep 27
• Middle and East Florida is embraced in General Pierre G.T. Beauregard's Confederate command of Florida's southeast coast.
• The Federals capture Governor Milton of Florida.
• Skirmishes at Brown Hill and Perryville, KY, as Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell, USA, continues to pursue Gen. Braxton Bragg, CSA.
• Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, CSA, is assigned to the command of the Army of Kentucky.
• Skirmish near Box Ford, Hatchie River, MS.
• Skirmish near Ripley, MS.
• Skirmish near Ruckersville, MS.
• Brig. Gen. Eugene Asa Carr, USA, assumes the command of the Army of the Southwest, MO, AR.
• Skirmish near New Franklin, Howard County, MO.
• Skirmish at Newtonia, MO.
• Skirmish near La Vergue, TN, results in a Union victory.
• Maj. Gen. Darius N. Couch, USA, supersedes Maj. Gen. Edwin V. Sumner in the command of the 2nd US Army Corps, the Army of the Potomac.

Wednesday October 7 1863

• Skirmish at Evening Shade and Ferry's Ford, AR.
• Federal scout in the Spring River country of AR. (Oct 7-10)
• Skirmish with Indians in the Choctaw Nation, the Indian Territory.
• Federal expedition from Sedalia to Marshall, MO. (Oct 7-17)
• Skirmish near Warsaw, MO, with Col. Joseph O. Shelby, CSA.
• Action at Farmington, TN, with Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, CSA.
• Skirmish at Blue Springs, TN, with Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, CSA.
• Skirmish at Sims' farm, near Shelbyville, TN, with Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, CSA.
• Skirmish at Hazel River, VA.
• Skirmish at Mitchell's Ford, Rapidan River, VA.
• Affair at Utz's Ford, Rapidan River, VA, where Maj. Gen. JEB Stuart, CSA, attacks, kills and captures Union pickets, taking horses and military equipment with him.
• Skirmishes at Charlestown and Summit Point, WV, with Confederate cavalry.

Friday October 7 1864

• The Confederate commerce raider, CSS Florida, is captured at Bahia, Brazil, by the USS Wachusett.
• Skirmish at Dallas, GA, with Lieut. Gen. John B. Hood's, CSA, Confederates against Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, USA, as Hood begins to move his army toward Alabama.
• Federal operations in Montgomery County, MD, in the vicinity of Sandy Springs, Barnesville, Middlebrook and Mechanicsville against a small roving band of Confederate guerrillas in the area. (Oct 7-11)
• Skirmish at Jefferson City, the state capital of Missouri, as Maj. Gen. Sterling Price, CSA, continues to March on.
• Skirmish at Moreau Creek, MO, with Maj. Gen. Sterling Price, CSA.
• Skirmish at Tyler's Mills, Big River, MO, with Maj. Gen. Sterling Price, CSA.
• Skirmish with Indians on the Elk Creek, the Nebraska Territory.
• Skirmish at Kingston, TN.
• Skirmish on the Black road, near Strasburg, VA, the Shenandoah Valley, Campaign.
• Skirmish near Columbia Furnace, VA, the Shenandoah Valley, Campaign.
• The engagement on the Darbytown and New Market Roads, including combats at Johnson's Farm and Four-Mile Creek, as Confederate forces attack and try to push back the Union siege forces around Petersburg, VA, the Richmond, VA, Campaign.
• Brig. Gen. John Gregg, CSA, is mortally wounded in the action while attempting to push back the Federal troops on the Darbytown Road, below Richmond, VA.

Saturday October 7 1865