- Nov 3 Battle until the 5th November between gunboats at Bayou Teche, a waterway in Louisiana
Historic Invention
Nov 4 American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling patents the hand cranked Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis
Historic Event
Nov 5 Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac
Historic Event
Nov 9 US General Ulysses S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
- Nov 17 Confederate Secretary of War George B. Randolph resigns
- Nov 17 Union General Ambrose Burnside marches north out of Washington, D.C., to begin the Fredericksburg campaign
- Nov 20 Confederate armies of Mississippi and Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee, under General Braxton Bragg
Music History
Nov 22 Opera "La Forza del Destino" by Giuseppe Verdi debuts at Bolshoi Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia [Nov 10 O.S.]