1862:  
Action at Hill's Plantation, and skirmishes at Bayou Deview, Devall's Bluff, and Round Hill, Arkansas

Skirmishes at Inman Hollow and near Newark, Missouri


1863:  
Skirmishes at Downsville and Funkstown, Maryland

Skirmish near Dry Wood, Missouri

Skirmish at Gladesville, Virginia

Action at Iuka and skirmishes at Queen's Hill, Baker's Creek, and Ripley, Mississippi

Skirmishes at Shepherdsville and near Cumming's Ferry, Kentucky

Kit Carson's campaign against the Indians
On this day, Lt. Colonel Christopher "Kit" Carson leaves Santa Fe with his troops, beginning his campaign against the Indians of New Mexico and Arizona. A famed mountain man before the Civil War, Carson was responsible for waging a destructive war against the Navajo that resulted in their removal from the Four Corners area to southeastern New Mexico.

Carson was perhaps the most famous trapper and guide in the West. He traveled with the expeditions of John C. Fremont in the 1840s, leading Fremont through the Great Basin. Fremont's flattering portrayal of Carson made the mountain man a hero when the reports were published and widely read in the east. Later, Carson guided Stephen Watts Kearney to New Mexico during the Mexican-American War. In the 1850s he became the Indian agent for New Mexico, a position he left in 1861 to accept a commission as lieutenant colonel in the 1st New Mexico Volunteers.

Although Carson's unit saw action in the New Mexico battles of 1862, he was most famous for his campaign against the Indians. Despite his reputation for being sympathetic and accommodating to tribes such as the Mescaleros, Kiowas, and Navajo, Carson waged a brutal campaign against the Navajo in 1863. When bands of Navajo refused to accept confinement on reservations, Carson terrorized the Navajo lands--burning crops, destroying villages, and slaughtering livestock. Carson rounded up some 8,000 Navajo and marched them across New Mexico for imprisonment on the Bosque Redondo, over 300 miles from their homes, where they remained for the duration of the war.



1864:  
Affairs at Hager's Mountain and Brownsville, and skirmishes at Frederick and Middletown, Maryland

Engagement at Jackson and Skirmish near Ripley, Mississippi

Skirmish at Van Buren, Arkansas

Skirmish on John's Island, South Carolina


Primary sources:
Official Records of the War of the Rebellion
A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion ; by Frederick Dyer;
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865 by E. B. Long with Barbara Long;
National Archives Guide Index