Battle of Interest
Sep 20 US Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga, Tennessee ends with a Union withdrawal
Historic Event
Oct 3 US President Abraham Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
- Oct 5 Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides
- Oct 6 Battle at Baxter Springs, Kansas
- Oct 6 Dr Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn
- Oct 9 Battle of Brady Station, Virginia (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station)
- Oct 10 Skirmish at Blue Springs, Tennessee (166 casualties)
- Oct 11 Skirmish at Rheatown/Henderson's Mill, Tennessee
- Oct 13 Skirmish at Blountsville, Tennessee (50 casualties)
- Oct 14 Battle at Bristoe Station, Virginia (about 2000 casualties)
- Oct 15 Cliff House opens in San Francisco, 1st of many on the site
- Oct 16 Grant is given command of Union forces in West
- Oct 18 Battle of Charlestown, WV
- Oct 19 Battle of Buckland Mills, Virginia
- Oct 26 International conference begins in Geneva aimed at improving medical conditions on battlefields - beginning of the Red Cross
- Oct 27 Dutch railway to Harlingen opens
- Oct 27 First Sanitation Fair to raise funds for US Civil War relief opens in Chicago organized by Mary Ashton Livermore
- Oct 28 Battle at Wauhatchie, Georgia: 865 killed or injured
- Oct 29 International Committee of Red Cross forms as result Geneva held conference (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)
- Oct 31 The Maori Wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato
- Nov 1 -8] Averell's Raid (on)to Lewisburg, West Virginia
- Nov 1 Fortifications built on Angel Island (San Francisco Bay) by troops
- Nov 3 Battle of Grand Coteau in Southwestern Louisiana in the American Civil War
- Nov 6 Battle of Rogersville, Tennessee, Confederates recapture Rogersville
- Nov 7 Battles of Rappahannock Station & Kelly's Ford, Virginia
Historic Event
Nov 14 Nathan Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee
- Nov 14 Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi
- Nov 16 Battle of Campbell's Station TN, 492 causalities
- Nov 17 -Dec 4th) Battle of Knoxville, Tennessee
- Nov 17 Abraham Lincoln begins 1st draft of his Gettysburg Address
Words That Echoed Down The Decades
Nov 19 US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; "Four score and seven years ago..."
- Nov 23 Battle of Chattanooga & Orchard Knob, Tennessee begins (results in Union victory 25 Nov)
- Nov 23 Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
- Nov 24 Battle of Chattanooga, Columbia & Lookout Mt begins in Tennessee
- Nov 25 Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee
- Nov 26 -Dec 2] Mine Run campaign, VA
- Nov 27 -29] Battle at Fort Esperanza, Texas
- Nov 27 Battle of Payne's Farm, Virginia
- Nov 29 Battle of Fort Sanders, Tennessee: Confederate troops fail to break through Union defenses with 8-900 causalities
- Nov 30 Confederate troops vacate Fort Esperanza, Texas
Historic Siege
Dec 3 Confederate General James Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, TN
- Dec 8 2,500 reported killed as result of fire at Jesuit Church of La Compana, Santiago, Chile
- Dec 8 Abraham Lincoln issues his Amnesty Proclamation and plan for Reconstruction of the South
- Dec 14 Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tennessee
- Dec 15 Romania's mountain railway, from Anina to Oravita, opens
- Dec 15 Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign)
Appointment of Interest
Dec 16 Braxton Bragg is replaced by Joseph E. Johnston as commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee
