Wednesday January 23 1861

Thursday January 23 1862

• The blockade runner, Calhoun, is captured by Federal vessels, near New Orleans, LA.
• A third stone fleet is sunk at the entrance to Charleston Harbor, SC, by the Federals in an attempt prevent Confederate blockade runners for using the harbor.

Friday January 23 1863

• Federal scout from Fayetteville to Van Buren, AR, with the capture of the Confederate steamer, Julia Roan, along with 200 Confederate men. (Jan 23-27)
• Federal expedition from Beaufort, SC, up the Saint Mary's River, in Georgia and Florida, aboard the steamers, John Adams, Planter, and Ben De Ford. (Jan 23-Feb 1)
• Skirmish on the Bradyville Pike, near Murfreesborough, TN.
• Skirmish at Carthage, TN.
• Partly due to frustration with the weather, Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, USA, issues orders to remove his subordinate commanders, which is never approved by President Lincoln, and included: Maj. Gen. bJoseph Hooker, Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin, Brig. Gen. John Newton, and Brig. Gen. William T. Brooks, USA.

Saturday January 23 1864

• Operations in North Alabama. (Jan 23-29)
• Affair near Woodville, AL, as Confederate cavalry swoop down and capture 17 citizen teamsters and 90 corralled horses; the Confederates unknowingly capturing unserviceable horses.
• Affair at Bailey's, on Crooked Creek, in Northwestern AR.
• Skirmishes near Burrowsville, in Northwestern AR.
• Skirmish on Rolling Prairie, in Northwestern AR.
• Skirmish at Cowskin Bottom, the Indian Territory.
• Federal scout from La Grange, TN, to Riley, MS, with casualties.
• Affair at Cowskin Bottom, Newton County, MO, with bushwackers.
• Federal scout from Patterson, MO, to Cherokee Bay, AR, with fatalities to guerrilla forces. (Jan 23-27)
• Skirmish near Newport, TN, where the Federals move to capture a reported Confederate forage train, finding only barren countryside that the Confederates had gleaned, transferring all valuable foodstuff across the river.
• Federal scout from Charlestown, WV, to Woodstock, VA, passing through Berryville, Millwood, White Post, Newtown, Middleton and Strasburg before attacking and driving the Confederates from Woodstock. The Federals withdraw to Winchester. (Jan 23-25)

Monday January 23 1865

• Skirmish with guerrillas at Thompson's Plantation, in the vicinity of Donaldsonville, LA.
• Federal scout from Cumberland Gap, TN, and the death of 12 Rebel guerrillas. The Yankees have orders to shoot a guerrilla whenever and wherever he is found, and not to take any prisoners on any account, and that's exactly what they do. (Jan 23-27)
• Lieut. Gen. Robert Taylor, CSA, assumes command of the Army of Tennessee, vice Lieut. Gen. John Bell Hood, CSA, resigning Jan 13
• A Confederate fleet sails from Richmond, VA, down the James River to attack the Federal supply depot at City Point, only to have the Drewry, CSS Richmond, Scorpion, and Virginia No. 2 run aground.
• Action at Fort Brady on the James River, the Richmond, VA, Campaign.