Friday November 1 1861

• George Washington Cullum, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, US Army, 34 yrs of age, supersedes 75 year old Bvt. Lieut. Gen. Winfield Scott in the Command of the Armies of the United States.
• Brig. Gen. Humphrey Marshall, CSA, is ordered to Eastern Kentucky.
• Maj. Gen. John Adam Dix, USA, issues his proclamation of his determination to protect the ballot box in MD.
• Federal expedition from Rolla, MO, against Freeman's forces. (Nov 1-9)
• Skirmish at Renick, Randolph County, MO.
• A convoy ship sinks off Cape Hatteras, NC, a part of the Port Royal, SC, expedition.
• The beginning of negotiations for the release and exchange of the US officers and men surrendered in Texas.
• Skirmish with Indians on the Peosi River, TX, by Col. H. E. McCulloch, CSA.
• Skirmishes near Gauley Bridge, or Cotton Hill, WV, with Confederate attacks under Brig. Gen. John Buchanan Floyd, CSA, failing to dislodge the Union forces under Brig. Gen. William Starke Rosecrans, USA. (Nov 1-3)

Saturday November 1 1862

• The following are appointed Confederate Brigadier Generals:
  • George Thomas Anderson, CSA
  • Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, CSA
  • John Rogers Cooke, CSA
  • Montgomery Dent Corse, CSA
  • George Pierce Doles, CSA
  • John Brown Gordon, CSA
  • Alfred Iverson Jr., CSA
  • James Henry Lane, CSA
  • Elisha Franklin Paxton, CSA
  • Carnot Posey, CSA
  • Stephen Dodson Ramseur, CSA
  • Jerome Bonaparte Robertson, CSA
  • Edward Lloyd Thomas, CSA
• The following are appointed Union Brigadier Generals:
  • Richard Arnold, USA
  • William Passmore Carlin, USA
  • Alfred Washington Ellet, USA
• Skirmish at La Grange, AR.
• Skirmish in Henderson County, KY.
• Federal naval operations on Berwick Bay, LA, including the capture of the Rebel steamer, A.B. Seger. (Nov 1-6)
• Operations in Boone County, MO. (Nov 1-10)
• Operations in Jackson County, MO, with the pursuit of Quantrill's guerrillas. (Nov 1-5)
• Federal expedition from New Berne, NC, including skirmishes (Nov 2) at Little Creek and Rawle's Mill. (Nov 1-12)
• The command of Gen. Braxton Bragg, CSA, is extended over the troops in the Dept. of East Tennessee.
• Skirmish at Berry's Ford Gap, VA.
• Skirmish at Philomont, VA, with Brig. Gen. Alfred Pleasanton, USA, Cavalry.

Sunday November 1 1863

• Ulysses Simpson Grant is appointed the sole Lieut. General in the Union Army.
• The Union forces under Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin, USA, retire from Opelousas to New Iberia, LA. (Nov 1-17)
• Federal scout from Bovina to Baldwin's Ferry, MS, with no encounters with the enemy.
• Skirmish at Quinn and Jackson's Mill, MS.
• Skirmish at Eastport, TN.
• Skirmish at Fayetteville, TN.
• Skirmish with Indians on the Gila, the New Mexico Territory.
• Skirmish at Catlett's Station, VA.
• Federal expeditions from Beverly and Charleston against Lewisburg, WV. (Nov 1-17)
• Brig. Gen. William W. Averell's US Cavalry command sets out from Beverly, WV, against Lewisburg.

Tuesday November 1 1864

• Thomas Lafayette Rosser, C.S.A. is appointed Maj. Gen.
• William Henry Fitzhugh Payne, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Federal Operations against guerrillas in Central Arkansas. (Nov 1-30)
• Skirmish on the Big Piney, near Waynesville, MO, with bushwackers.
• Affair at Greenton, MO, as 3 Union officers stop and wait at a lady's house for the woman to cook them dinner, their command continuing to March on. The officers tell the men they'll catch up with them. After dinner, 3 guerrillas capture the Yankees, quickly taking them into the bush and where the Federals find their officers the next morning, all 3 shot through the head.
• Skirmish near Lebanon, MO, where the Confederates attack a Union forage train.
• Skirmish at Rolla, MO.
• The 1st and 3rd Division, 16th US Army Corps are transferred from Missouri to Nashville, Tennessee, and the command of Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, USA, as the Confederate expedition into Missouri by Maj. Gen. Sterling Price, CSA, had concluded. The Federals moving manpower where needed. (Nov 1-30)
• Skirmishes at Union Station, TN.
• Federal scout from Bermuda Hundred into Charles City County, VA, the Richmond, VA, Campaign. (Nov 1-5)
• Affair at Green Spring Run, WV, with Bvt. Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Kelley's, USA, Yankees repelling the Confederates.

Wednesday November 1 1865