Monday December 9 1861

• The engagement at Chusto-Talasah, or Bird Creek or High Shoal, Indian Territory, later known as Tulsa, OK, between Pro-Confederate Indians, Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choctaw, and Pro-Union Creek Indians.
• Skirmish at Union Mills, MO.
• The US Senate Committee overwhelming votes to establish the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, due, in part, to the fiasco at Ball's Bluff, VA.

Tuesday December 9 1862

• Skirmish at Mudtown, AR.
• Federal reconnaissance from Corinth, MS, toward Tuscumbia, AL, including skirmishes (Dec 12) at Cherokee Station and Little Bear Creek, AL. (Dec 9-14)
• Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn, CSA, is temporarily in command of the Confederate Army of the Mississippi.
• Federal expedition from Ozark, MO, into Marion County, AR, with the destruction of Confederate saltworks. (Dec 9-15)
• Skirmish at Dobbins' Ferry, near La Vergne, TN, as Brig. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, CSA, attacks a Union forage train.
• Federal reconnaissance toward Franklin, and skirmish near Brentwood, TN.
• Brig. Gen. Julius Stahel, USA, is temporarily in command of the 11th US Army Corps, the Army of the Potomac, VA.

Wednesday December 9 1863

• Federal scout from Waldron down Dutch Creek, AR.
• Maj. Gen. John G. Foster, USA, supersedes Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, USA, in the command of the Dept. of the Ohio, KY.
• The mutiny of black troops at Fort Jackson, LA, after two black soldiers are punished by whipping. The insurrection is put down by the white officers.
• Skirmish at Okolona, MS.
• Federal scout from Houston, MO, in pursuit of Rebel marauders.
• Blockade runners are being captured all along the Union blockade; today the Minna, is captured off Charleston, SC.
• Skirmishes at and near Bean's Station, TN, the Knoxville, TN, Campaign. (Dec 9-13)
• Affair at Cumberland Mountain, on the road to Crossville, TN.
• Affairs at and near Lewinsville, VA, with an attack on the Union men by Maj. John S. Mosby, CSA.

Friday December 9 1864

• Skirmish at Cuyler's Plantation, GA, as Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, USA, reaches the outskirts of Savannah, GA, with skirmishes at:
  • Skirmish between Eden and Pooler Stations, GA.
  • Skirmish at Monteith Swamp, GA.
  • Skirmish at Ogeechee Canal, GA.
• Maj. Gen. Greenville M. Dodge, USA, assumes the command of the Dept. of the Missouri, MO.
• The USS Otesgo and the tugboat, Bazely, are sunk by Confederate torpedoes on the Roanoke River, near Jamesville, NC.
• Federal reconnaissance to Hatcher's Run, and skirmishes, the Richmond, VA, Campaign. (Dec 9-10)

Saturday December 9 1865