Civil War Timeline / Chronology for October 1862

October 1, 1862	David Dixon Porter is given command of the Mississippi Squadron
	David Porter
October 1, 1862	Major General John Pemberton replaces Earl van Dorn at the head of the reorganized Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana	Mississippi Louisiana
October 1, 1862	Abraham Lincoln visits Harper's Ferry on his way to Antietam	Virginia West Virginia
	Abraham Lincoln
October 2, 1862	Abraham Lincoln arrives at George McClellan's headquarters in Sharpsburg	Maryland
	Abraham Lincoln
October 3, 1862 October 4, 1862	Battle of Corinth Earl Van Dorn [CS] and Sterling Price [CS] attack William Rosecrans [US] northern perimeter, driving it back to a reinforced line. Rosecrans successfully defends the city	Mississippi
	Earl Van Dorn
	Sterling Price
	William S. Rosecrans
October 4, 1862	Richard Hawes is inaugurated as Confederate governor of Kentucky. Braxton Bragg attends.	Kentucky
	Braxton Bragg
	Confederate Invasion of Kentucky
October 5, 1862	Battle of Hatchie Bridge [US] Battle of Metamora [CS] Other names: Hatchie; Davis Bridge Edward Ord [US] discovers Confederates retreating from Corinth. When Ord was severly wounded fighting paused as command passed to Stephen Hurlbut [US]. Sterling Price [CS] was able to escape.	Mississippi
	Sterling Price
	Edward O. C. Ord
October 7, 1862	Battle of Lavernge	Tennessee
October 8, 1862	Battle of Perryville Braxton Bragg [CS] and Don Carlos Buell [US] fight the largest battle on Kentucky soil. The battle is generally regarded as a draw, although Buell claimed victory. Less than half of Buell's men participated because he did not know a major battle was taking place less than 2 miles from his headquarters	Kentucky
	Braxton Bragg
	Don Carlos Buell
	Army of the Ohio
	Army of Tennessee
	Philip Sheridan
	Confederate Invasion of Kentucky
	William Hardee
	Simon Bolivar Buckner
	Benjamin Franklin Cheatham
	Leonidas Polk
	Patrick Cleburne
October 9, 1862 October 12, 1862	J. E. B. Stuart "rides around McClellan's Army" for a second time	Maryland Pennsylvania
	J. E. B. Stuart
October 10, 1862	Battle of Harrodsburg	Kentucky
	Confederate Invasion of Kentucky
October 16, 1862	Six men, Wilson W. Brown, Daniel Dorsey, Martin Hawkins, William Knight, John Porter, John Wilson, John Wollam and Mark Wood escape from the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia. As members of Andrew's Raiders they would all receive the Medal of Honor.	Georgia
	The Great Locomotive Chase
October 16, 1862	Major General Ulysses S. Grant is given command of the Department of Tennessee. Sometimes listed as Oct. 17.
	Ulysses S. Grant
October 18, 1862	Battle of Lexington John Hunt Morgan's [CS} raiders captured a federal garrison before moving to the southwest	Kentucky
	John Hunt Morgan
October 19, 1862 October 23, 1862	Bragg moves south through the Cumberland Gap, essentially escaping the Army of the Ohio	Tennessee Kentucky
	Braxton Bragg
	Confederate Invasion of Kentucky
October 24, 1862	Don Carlos Buell [US] is relieved of command from the Army of the Ohio for his failure to pursue Bragg [CS] following the Battle of Perryville. William Starke Rosecrans is ordered to replace him.
	Don Carlos Buell
	William S. Rosecrans
	Confederate Invasion of Kentucky
October 24, 1862	The XIV Corps, better known as the Army of the Cumberland, is created from the Army of the Ohio.
	Army of the Cumberland
	Army of the Ohio
October 25, 1862	Major General Ulysess S. Grant assumes command of the 13th Army Corps and the Department of Tennessee
	Ulysses S. Grant
October 26, 1862	Major General Samuel Heintzelman [US] is put in command of Union forces protecting Washington D. C., replacing Nathaniel Banks
	Samuel Heintzelman
	Nathaniel Banks
	Washington D. C.
October 30, 1862	Major General William Rosecrans assumes command of the Army of the Cumberland
	William S. Rosecrans
	Army of the Cumberland
October 30, 1862	Major General Ormsby Mitchel [US] dies from yellow fever, Beaufort	South Carolina