October 31 In Civil War History

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On this day in Civil War history
Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag
October 31, 1826 - Hugh Boyle Ewing, American diplomat, author, attorney, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Lancaster, Ohio (d. 1905)
October 31, 1831 - Daniel Butterfield, American Major General (Union Army), assistant US Treasurer, born in Utica, New York (d. 1901)
October 31, 1835 - Adelbert Ames, American soldier and politician, Bvt Major General (Union Army), born in Rockland, Maine.
October 31, 1861 - Secessionist Missouri legislators meet at Neosho and vote to leave the Union.
October 31, 1861 - Winfield Scott relieved from duty as
General-in-Chief, U. S. Army.
October 31, 1861 - Skirmish near Morgantown, KY, with a Confederate attack on a Federal camp repulsed.
October 31, 1861 - Skirmish at Greenbrier, WV.
October 31, 1862 - Union forces advance from Bolivar and Corinth, MS, upon Grand Junction, TN. (Oct 31-Nov 1)
October 31, 1862 - Operations on the Mississippi Central Railroad from Bolivar, TN, to Coffeeville, MS. (Oct 31-Jan 10, 1863)
October 31, 1862 - Federal scout in Monroe County, MO.
October 31, 1862 - The Federal bombardment of Lavaca, TX.
October 31, 1862 - Skirmish at Aldie, VA.
October 31, 1862 - Skirmish at Franklin, VA.
October 31, 1862 - Skirmish near Mountville, VA.
October 31, 1862 - Skirmish at Snickersville, VA.
October 31, 1862 - Skirmish near the Falls of the Kanawha, WV.
October 31, 1863 - Brig. Gen. Louis Ludwig Blenker, USA, dies on his farm, in Rockland County, NY, having resigned from the Union Army Ranks on Mar 31.
October 31, 1863 - Skirmish at Barton's Station, AL.
October 31, 1863 - Skirmish at Washington, LA, with Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin, USA.
October 31, 1863 - Skirmish at Yazoo City, MS.
October 31, 1863 - The Federal bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, SC, continues to reduce the fort to rubble.
October 31, 1863 - Affair near Weaverville, VA, as the Confederates surround and capture 3 Union tents with sleeping men inside who were supposed to be guarding the cattle within a mile or two of Federal Army headquarters.
October 31, 1864 - Nevada becomes the 36th state in the United States.
October 31, 1864 - Skirmish near Shoal Creek, AL, as Lieut. Gen. John Bell Hood, CSA, prepares to move his Confederate army into Tennessee, assuming Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, USA, will pursue him.
October 31, 1864 - The Union naval occupation of Plymouth, NC.
October 31, 1879 - Joseph "Fighting Joe" Hooker, American General dies in Garden City, NY.
 
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