ACWS - On This Day in the American Civil War 9th November

George Bibb Crittenden, C.S.A., is appointed Maj. Gen.
Jeremiah Tilford Boyle, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
The Dept. of Kansas is constituted, under the command of Maj. Gen. David Hunter, USA.
The Dept. of the Ohio is reorganized so as to embrace the states of Kentucky, east of the Cumberland River, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Tennessee, under the command of Brig. Gen. Don Carlos Buell, USA, who supersedes Brig. Gen. William T. Sherman, USA.
The Dept. of Missouri is constituted, which included Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky west of the Cumberland River and Missouri, under the command of Maj. Gen. Henry Wager Halleck, USA.
The Dept. of New Mexico is re-established under the command of Col. Edward Richard S. Canby, USA.
The Federal occupation of Beaufort, SC, by Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Sherman's, USA, recently landed expeditionary forces.
Federal expedition to Mathias Point, VA , on the York River, by Brig. Gens. Joseph Hooker and Daniel E. Sickles, USA.

Brig. Gen. John Bordenave Villepigue, CSA, dies at Port Hudson, LA, from camp fever sickness.
Skirmishes at Boston Mountains, AR, and Dry Wood, MO.
Skirmish between Fayetteville and Cane Hill, AR.
Skirmish at Huntsville, MO.
Skirmish at Lebanon, TN.
Skirmish at Silver Springs, TN.
Skirmish at Fredericksburg, VA, with a Union cavalry charge under Col. Ulric Dahlgren, USA, through the city. Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA, holds a Court of Inquiry, into possible negligence on the part of his pickets. The outcome is that no charges are lodged by Lee.
Skirmish at Newby's Cross-Roads, VA.
Skirmish at Philomont, VA, where Rebel Cavalry capture the town and the tail end of a long Federal supply train.
Skirmishes near Rappahannock Station, VA.
Federal reconnaissance from Bolivar Heights to Rippon, WV.
Federal expedition into Greenbrier County, WV. (Nov 9-11)
Skirmish on the South Fork of the Potomac, WV, between Brig. Gen. Benjamin F. Kelley, USA, and Col. John Daniel Imboden, CSA, Partisan Rangers.

Skirmish in the Choctaw Nation, the Indian Territory.
Skirmish near Bayou Sara, LA, as Confederate cavalry chase the Federals back to their ironclads, capturing prisoners and a wagon train.
Skirmish near Indian Bayou, LA.
Federal operations near Weldon, NC.
Skirmish near Covington, VA, with the Union Cavalry expedition forces under Brig. Gen. William W. Averell, USA.
Federal expedition from Williamsburg toward New Kent Court House, VA, where the Federals returne to Williamsburg with 30 wagons filled with corn gathered from the fields of 3 locals farmers. (Nov 9-10)
President Jefferson Davis returns to Richmond, VA, from his trip into the deep south amid a snowstorm.
President Abraham Lincoln spends the evening at the theater watching John Wilkes Booth star in "The Marble Heart."

On This Day information kindly provided by Martin Cross, 2nd U.S. Artillery, Bty B.