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 |