Birthdays
David Agnew
Turns 50 on this date
Albert Taylor Bledsoe
Turns 52 on this date
Thomas Bragg
Turns 51 on this date
Edward Richard Sprigg Canby
Turns 44 on this date
William Henry Forney
Turns 38 on this date
Leonard A. Grimes
Turns 46 on this date
Ambrose Powell Hill
Turns 36 on this date
Samuel Allen McCoskry
Turns 57 on this date
Josiah Tattnall
Turns 66 on this date
Events
| Battles/Soldiers | In Eastern Tennessee, local Unionists burn five railroad bridges prompting a furious Confederate response |
11/08/1861 to 11/09/1861 |
| Battles/Soldiers | Major-General Henry Wager Halleck, "Old Brains," is appointed to head the new Union Department of the Missouri | 11/09/1861 |
| Education/Culture | The first documented North American football game is played University College in Toronto | 11/09/1861 |
| Battles/Soldiers | Union forces occupy Pikesville, Kentucky having driven Confederate forces from eastern Kentucky | 11/09/1861 |