Civil War Timeline / Chronology for November 1861

November 1, 1861	George McClellan promoted to General-in-Chief
	George McClellan
	General-in-Chief, U. S. Army
November 2, 1861	President Lincoln relieves John C. Frémont from duty.	Missouri
	John C. Fremont
November 4, 1861	U. S. Navy enters Port Royal Sound	South Carolina
November 4, 1861	Major General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson assumes command of the Shenandoah Valley District	Virginia
	Stonewall Jackson
November 6, 1861	Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens are elected President and Vice-President, respectively, of the Confederate States of America
	Jefferson Davis
	Alexander Stephens
November 7, 1861	Battle of Port Royal Union naval forces under Flag Officer Samuel DuPont secure an inlet between Charleston and Savannah including the island of Hilton Head	South Carolina
November 7, 1861	Battle of Belmont U. S. Grant [US] defeats Gideon Pillow [CS]. Grant's men are then routed by B. F. Cheatham [CS]. Losses: U. S. 607 C. S. 641	Missouri
	Ulysses S. Grant
	Gideon Pillow
	Battle of Belmont
	Benjamin Franklin Cheatham
	Leonidas Polk
November 8, 1861	Battle of Ivy Mountain Bull Nelson [US] defeats Capt. Andrew Jackson [CS] in early Kentucky battle. Additional action near Pikeville the following day.	Kentucky
	William 'Bull' Nelson
November 8, 1861 November 10, 1861	With the approach of a significant Union force in Kentucky, Unionists in East Tennessee revolted, burning railroad bridges to delay a Rebel advance.	Tennessee
November 8, 1861	British mail packet Trent, carrying James M. Mason and John Slidell, Confederate commissioners to London and Paris, is halted in the Bahama Channel by the U.S. warship San Jacinto.
	Trent Affair
November 9, 1861	Major General Henry Halleck is given command of the states east of the Mississippi and Brigadier General Don Carlos Buell is put in command of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee.
	Don Carlos Buell
	Henry Halleck
November 13, 1861	Rev. M. R. Watkinson from Ridleyville writes Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase asking the motto "God, Liberty, Law" be added to all currency to "...place us openly under the Divine protection we have personally claimed"	Pennsylvania
	In God We Trust
November 15, 1861	William Tecumseh Sherman is replaced by Don Carlos Buell at the head of the reorganized Department of Ohio. Sherman had assumed command as senior officer when Anderson was relieved of duty.
	William Tecumseh Sherman
	Don Carlos Buell
	Army of the Ohio
November 15, 1861	Second pro-Union rebellion in East Tennessee, centered in the Chattanooga area	Tennessee
November 19, 1861	Henry W. Halleck assumes command of Union forces in Missouri	Missouri
	Henry Halleck
November 20, 1861	Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase instructs James Pollock of U. S. Mint in Philadelphia that "the trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins."
	In God We Trust
November 23, 1861	U. S. San Jacinto docks in Boston and John Slidell and James Mason are removed to Fort Warren.
	Trent Affair
November 26, 1861	West Virginia Constitutional Convention convenes in Wheeling	West Virginia
November 27, 1861	Passengers from the Trent arrive in London and report the ship had been boarded
	Trent Affair