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November 4, 1816 - William Polk Hardeman, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Williamson County, Tennessee (d. 1898)
November 4, 1818 - Alexander Robert Lawton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Beaufort County, SC. (d. 1896)
November 4, 1820 - Robert Vinkler Richardson, American Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), born in Granville County, North Carolina (d. 1870)
November 4, 1835 - Lunsford L. Lomax, American Major General (Confederate Army), born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 1913)
November 4, 1856 - Democrats James Buchanan and John C. Breckinridge defeat Republicans John C. Fremont and William Dayton and American (Know-Nothing) Party candidates Millard Fillmore and Andrew Donelson.
November 4, 1861 - U. S. Navy enters Port Royal Sound, South Carolina.
November 4, 1861 - Maj. Gen. John Adams Dix, USA, directs that Negroes not be allowed to come within certain military lines in Maryland.
November 4, 1861 - Operations in the Valley District, VA. (Nov 4-Feb 21, 1862)
November 4, 1861 - Major General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson assumes command of the Shenandoah Valley District
Virginia.
November 4, 1862 - Martin Luther Smith, C.S.A., is appointed Maj. Gen.
November 4, 1862 - The following are appointed Confederate Brigadier Generals:
William Robertson Boggs, CSA
William George Mackey Davis, CSA
Archibald Gracie, Jr., CSA
Evander McNair, CSA
James Edward Rains, CSA
November 4, 1862 - The Confederate saltworks at Kingsbury, GA, are destroyed by the Federal troops.
November 4, 1862 - Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard's Confederate command is extended to the Choctawhatchee River, SC.
November 4, 1862 - La Grange and Grand Junction, TN, are occupied by Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USA, in preparation of an assault on Vicksburg, MS.
November 4, 1862 - Skirmish at Manassas Gap, VA.
November 4, 1862 - Skirmish at Markham's Station, VA.
November 4, 1862 - Skirmish at Salem, VA.
November 4, 1862 - For the first time since the party was founded, Republicans lose seats in Congress.
November 4, 1863 - Skirmish at Maysville, AL.
November 4, 1863 - Skirmish in the Pinal Mountains on the Gila River, the Arizona Territory.
November 4, 1863 - Federal expedition from Houston to Jack's Fork, and in Reynolds, Shannon, and Oregon counties, MO.
November 4, 1863 - Skirmish near Lexington, MO, with bushwhackers.
November 4, 1863 - Skirmish at and near Neosho, MO. (Nov 4-6)
November 4, 1863 - Federal expedition aboard transports and supported by the Union gunboats, Delaware, Miami and Whitehead, up the Chowan River, NC, to within 2 miles of the mouth of the Blackwater. (Nov 4-9)
November 4, 1863 - Skirmish near Rocky Run, NC, with bushwhackers.
November 4, 1863 - The Knoxville (Tennessee) Campaign. (Nov 4-Dec 23)
November 4, 1863 - Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet's Confederate Corps is detached from the Army of Tennessee, in part due to his inability to get along with Gen. Braxton Bragg, CSA, and his operations against Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's, USA, Union forces in East Tennessee, around Knoxville, TN.
November 4, 1863 - Skirmish at Motley's Ford, Little Tennessee River, TN, as the Federals got near the river just as a Confederate regiment was crossing the river. They charged them and drove them into the river, where at least 50 were killed or drowned in crossing.
November 4, 1863 - Skirmish at Falmouth, VA.
November 4, 1863 - Skirmish near Cackleytown, WV, during the Union Cavalry expedition to Lewisburg, WV
November 4, 1864 - The siege of Petersburg is ongoing.
November 4, 1864 - William MacRae, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
November 4, 1864 - Peter Burwell Starke, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
November 4, 1864 - Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge's, CSA, Confederate advance into East Tennessee. (Nov 4-17)
November 4, 1864 - November 5, 1864 - Battle of Johnsonville - Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry and two captured Union boats move up the Tennessee River to Johnsonville and attacked the Union supply depot there causing major damage.
November 4, 1890 - Joseph B. Palmer, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 65 in Murfreesboro, TN.
November 4, 1924 - Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient, Dies in Philadelphia, PA. (b. 1843)