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Sunday October 13 1861

• Action at Wet Glaze, or Shangai, or Dutch or Monday's Hollow, near Henrytown, MO.
• Brig. Gen. Thomas Williams, USA, supersedes Brig. Gen. Joseph K. F. Mansfield, USA, in command at Hatteras Inlet, NC.
• Skirmish at Cotton Hill, WV.

Monday October 13 1862

• Skirmish at Harrodsburg, KY.
• Skirmish on the Lancaster Road, KY.
• Skirmish at New Franklin, MO.
• Skirmish on the Lebanon Road, near Nashville, TN.
• Col. Joseph Wheeler, CSA, is placed in command of all the cavalry of Gen. Braxton Bragg's Confederate Army, TN.
• Operations about Paris, Snickersville, and Middlesburg, VA.
• Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, USA, is assigned to the command of the Defenses of Harper's Ferry, WV.
• Maj. Gen. Jacob D. Cox, USA, assumes the command of the District of West Virginia.

Tuesday October 13 1863

• Skirmish at Maysville, AL, with Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, CSA.
• Action at Wyatt, MS, with Brig. Gen. James R. Chalmers, CSA.
• Action at Marshall, MO, with Col. Joseph O. Shelby, CSA.
• Clement L. Vallandigham, exiled in Canada, is defeated in his race for Governor of Ohio.
• Skirmishes at Fayetteville, TN.
• Action at Auburn, VA, with Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA, and Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, USA.
• Federal scout from Great Bridge, VA, to Indiantown, NC, including the capture of a notorious guerrilla Silas F. Gregory. After having gone less than a mile, the Federals are fired upon from the woods by guerrillas, which allows time for Mr. Silas Gregory to escape.
• Skirmishes near Warrenton and at Fox's Ford, VA, between Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, USA, and Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA.
• Skirmish at Bulltown, WV, as Confederate forces surround the town and demand a surrender which the Federals refuse to do. After fighting and casualties on both sides, the Confederates withdraw towards Sutton.
• Skirmish at Burlington, WV.

Thursday October 13 1864

• Federal expedition from Pine Bluff to Arkansas Post, AR. (Oct 13-18)
• Combat at Buzzard Roost Gap, GA. (Oct 13-14)
• The Union surrender of Dalton, GA.
• The Union surrender of Tilton, GA, as Lieut. Gen. John B. Hood's, CSA, men seize the important railroad line in the vicinity.
• Federal reconnaissance from Rome on the Cave Springs Road, GA, and skirmishes.
• Skirmish with Indians near Mullahla's Station, the Nebraska Territory.
• Federal scout against Apache Indians from near Tularosa, into the Sacramento Mountains, the New Mexico Territory. (Oct 13-21)
• Federal operations against Indians near Fort Belknap, TX, with skirmish (Oct 13) 16 miles above Fort Belknap on Elm Creek, TX. (Oct 13-20)
• Action at Cedar Creek, VA, as Lieut. Gen. Jubal Early, CSA, moves into position at his old entrenched lines at Fisher's Hill.
• Engagement on the Darby town Road, the Richmond, VA, Campaign.
• John Mosby's Irregular Confederate Partisans capture and burn the railroad train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near Kearneysville and west of Harper's Ferry, WV, seizing over $170,000 from the Union paymaster.

Friday October 13 1865