Sunday December 29 1861

• Confederate scout after Hopoeithleyohola in the Indian Territory, with skirmishing continuing with the Pro-Union Creek Indians, who were leaving the Indian Territory, headed for Kansas, and being pursued by the Pro-southern Indian Nation tribes of Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole. (Dec 29-Jan 4)
• Confederate descent upon Commerce, MO, and the unsuccessful attack on the steamer City of Alton, by Brig. Gen. M. Jeff Thompson's Partisan Confederates.
• The Federal capture of Suttonville (Braxton Court-House), and skirmishes in the following WV counties:
  • Braxton
  • Clay
  • Webster

Monday December 29 1862

• John Adams, CSA, is appointed to Brig. Gen.
• William Hicks Jackson, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• The capture of the Union stockade at Boston, KY, by Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan, CSA.
• Skirmish near Johnson's Ferry (or Hamilton's Ford), Rolling Fork, KY, with Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan, CSA.
• Affair near Plaquemine, LA, with Union cavalry.
• Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's Federal assault on Chickasaw Bluffs, MS, in the vicinity of Vicksburg, is repulsed by the Confederates with massive Federal casualties.
• Skirmish at Huntingdon, TN, with Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA.
• Skirmish at Lizzard's, between Triune and Murfreesborough, TN.
• The passage of Moccasin Gap, and the capture of Confederates on the Blountsville road, TN, by Brig. Gen. Samuel Carter's, USA, raid.
• Skirmishes near Murfreesborough, TN. (Dec 29-30)
• Skirmish at Wilkinson's Cross-Roads (or Wilkerson's Cross-Roads), TN.

Tuesday December 29 1863

• The Confederate attack on Waldron, AR, is repelled.
• Skirmish at Coldwater, MS.
• Federal scout to Bean's Station, TN, where it is reported only small bands of Confederates are in the immediate vicinity.
• Skirmish at Cleveland, TN.
• Skirmish at La Vergne, TN.
• Action at Mossy Creek, TN, where the Federals report incurring 109 casualties.
• Skirmish at Talbott's Station, TN.
• Skirmish on the Matagorda Peninsula, TX, including the US gunboats, USS Monongahela, Granite City, Sciota, and the destruction of the Confederate gunboat, CSS Carr.
• Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, USA, resumes the command of the 2nd US Army Corps, the Army of the Potomac, VA.

Thursday December 29 1864

• Skirmish at Hillsborough, AL.
• Skirmish at Pond Spring, AL.
• Brig. Gen. Alvan C. Gillem's, USA, command reaches Knoxville, TN, after taking part in Maj. Gen. George Stoneman's expedition into Southwestern Virginia.

Friday December 29 1865