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Monday October 21 1861

• The following are appointed Confederate Brigadier Generals:
  • Philip St. George Cocke CSA
  • Nathan George Evans, CSA
  • Robert Emmett Rodes, CSA
  • Richard Taylor, CSA
  • James Heyward Trapier, CSA
  • Louis Trezevant Wigfall, CSA
  • Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, CSA
• Brig. Gen. John Breckinridge Grayson, CSA, dies at Tallahassee, FL, from lung disease, three days after his 55th birthday.
• Action at Rockcastle Hills, or Camp Wildcat, KY, with Brig. Gen. Felix Zollicoffer, CSA, attacking Brig. Gen. A. Schoepf, USA.
• The Federal expedition under the command of Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Sherman, USA, sails from Annapolis, MD, for the South Carolina coast.
• Engagement at Fredericktown, MO, with Col. J. B. Plummer, USA.
• Operations on the Potomac, near Leesburg, VA, including:
  • Engagement (or Battle of) Ball's Bluff, or of Leesburg, VA, and the resulting skirmish on the Leesburg road (Oct 21). The Union troops are ferried across the Potomac here and downstream at Edwards Ferry, and March up the steep banks; they are pressed back, with many killed as they leap down the steep banks while many others drown as they attempt to recross the Potomac. The Confederates under Brig. Gen. Nathan George "Shanks" Evans, CSA, rout the Federals, under Brig. Gen. Charles Pomeroy Stone, USA. Although taking direct orders from Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, Gen. Stone's military career is destroyed with the untimely death of Maj. Gen. Edward Dickinson Baker, USA, who is also a Senator from Oregon, and a close personal friend of President Lincoln.
  • Action near Edwards Ferry (Oct 22).
• Skirmish at Young's Mill, near Newport News, VA, with Brig. Gen. John B. Magruder, CSA.

Tuesday October 21 1862

• Skirmish near Simmons' Ranch, near Hydesville, CA.
• Federal expedition from Crab Orchard to Big Hill and Richmond, KY.
• Col. Joseph Wheeler's, CSA, command arrives at, and seizes Loundon, KY.
• Skirmish at Pitman's Cross-Roads, KY.
• Federal scout to Colliersville, Shelby Depot, Hickory, and Galloway Switch, TN, and skirmishes. (Oct 21-24)
• Skirmish at Woodville, TN, with Rebel Partisan Rangers.
• Federal reconnaissance from Loudoun Heights to Lovettsville, VA, and skirmishes en route with the capture of Rebel foragers.

Wednesday October 21 1863

• Action at Cherokee Station, AL, on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad.
• Skirmishes at Opelousas and Barre's Landing, LA, with the occupation of Opelousas, LA, by Maj. Gen. William Buel Franklin, USA.
• Affair in Greenton Valley, near Hopewell, MO, with bushwackers.
• Skirmish at Sulphur Springs, TN.
• Federal scout from Charleston to Boone County Court-House, WV, and around Turtle Creek, Six-Mile Creek, and the Spruce Fork of Coal River, finding no enemy except a few stragglers who are made prisoners. (Oct 21-22)

Friday October 21 1864

• George Crook, U.S.A., is appointed Maj. Gen.
• William Badger Tibbits, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
• Skirmish at Leesburg, AL.
• Skirmish at Bryant's Plantation, FL.
• Skirmish at Harrodsburg, KY.
• Action at the Little Blue, MO, where Brig. Gen. Joseph O. Shelby, CSA, forces Maj. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis, USA, to retreat to Bush Creek, near Westport, MO. Maj. Gen. Sterling Price, CSA, continues to exert muscle.
• Skirmish with Indians, at Alkali Station, the Nebraska Territory.
• Skirmish in Clinch Valley, near Sneedville, TN.
• The Confederate raids on the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad, TN, by forces under Lieut. Gen. John B. Hood, CSA.

Saturday October 21 1865