August 14 1861 Wednesday
Confederate Invasion of New Mexico
Rosecrans’ West Virginia Campaign
Missouri. Union Major-General John Charles Frémont placed St Louis under martial law. The War Bulletin and Missourian were suppressed as dissident publications.
Virginia. Sixty men of the Union 2nd Maine mutinied at Arlington and were sentenced to imprisonment at the Dry Tortugas.
Union Organisation
USA: James William Denver promoted Brigadier-General USV 14 August 1861.
Denver, James William | Virginia | Born 23 October 1817 Winchester, Virginia | Captain USV 1847-Brigadier-General USV 14 August 1861 Resigned USV March 5 1863 | Died 9 August 1892 | 19 March 1862 – 9 April 1862 District of Kansas
Commander in Chief: President Abraham Lincoln
Vice-President: Hannibal Hamlin
Secretary of War: Simon Cameron
Secretary of the Navy: Gideon Welles
- Coast Blockading Squadron USN: Flag Officer Silas Horton Stringham USN
- Gulf Blockading Squadron USN: Flag Officer William Mervine USN
- Pacific Squadron USN: Captain John B Montgomery USN
- Potomac Flotilla USN: Commander Thomas Tingey Craven USN
General–in-Chief: Winfield Scott
- Military Division (Department) of the Potomac: George Brinton McClellan
- Department of Northeastern Virginia: Irvin McDowell
- Army of the Potomac: Irvin McDowell
- Department of Washington: Joseph King Fenno Mansfield
- Department of Northeastern Virginia: Irvin McDowell
- Department of the East: John Ellis Wool
- Department of Florida: Harvey Brown
- Department of Kentucky: Robert Anderson
- Department of the Ohio: William Starke Rosecrans
- Cheat Mountain District: Joseph Jones Reynolds
- Cheat River District: Charles J Biddle
- District of Grafton: Benjamin Franklin Kelley
- Army of Occupation: William Starke Rosecrans
- Department of the Pacific: Edwin Vose Sumner
- District of Oregon: George Wright
- Department of Pennsylvania: John Adams Dix
- Army of the Shenandoah: Vacant
- Department of the Shenandoah: Nathaniel Prentiss Banks
- Department of Texas: Vacant
- Department of Virginia: Benjamin Franklin Butler interim John Ellis Wool awaited
- Western Department: John Charles Frémont
- District of Ironton: Ulysses Simpson Grant
- District of North Missouri: John Pope
- Southern District of New Mexico: Benjamin Stone Roberts
Confederate Organisation
CSA: Forces in New Orleans or “Army of Louisiana” was discontinued. Colonel Paul Octave Hébert assumed command of the remaining field forces in Department No 1, succeeding Brigadier-General Braxton Bragg, and before departing to Texas.
CSA: Colonel Paul Octave Hébert was appointed to command the Department of Texas, arriving on September 18th 1861, to succeed Brigadier-General Earl Van Dorn.
Hébert, Paul Octave | Louisiana | Born 12 December 1818 Iberville, Louisiana | USMA 1840 1/42 Engineers | 2nd Lieutenant USA Engineers 1 July 1840 Resigned 31 March 1845 Lieutenant-Colonel USA 14th US Infantry 9 April 1847 Honourably Discharged USA 25 July 1848 Colonel 1st Louisiana Artillery 1861 Brigadier-General Louisiana Militia 1 April 1861 Brigadier-General PACS August 18 1861 to rank from 17 August 1861 | Died 29 August 1880 | 16 April 1861 – 17 April 1861 Department of Louisiana, 14 August 1861 – 3 September 1861 Department of Texas, 10 February 1862 – 28 May 1862 Eastern District of Texas, 26 May 1862 – 29 July 1862 Trans-Mississippi Department, 28 May 1862 – 20 August 1862 District of Eastern Texas and Western Louisiana, 20 August 1862 – 19 October 1862 District of Texas, 15 October 1862 – 29 November 1862 First Sub-District of Texas
Commander in Chief: President Jefferson Finis Davis
Vice-President: Alexander Hamilton Stephens
Secretary of War: Leroy Pope Walker
Secretary of the Navy: Stephen Russell Mallory
Military Adviser to the President: Robert Edward Lee
- Department No 1: David Emanuel Twiggs
- Department of Fredericksburg: Daniel Harvey Hill
- District of Aquia: Daniel Ruggles
- Department of Norfolk: Benjamin Huger
- Department of North Carolina: Theophilus Hunter Holmes
- Defences of North Carolina: Theophilus Hunter Holmes
- Department of the Peninsula: John Bankhead Magruder
- Army of the Peninsula: John Bankhead Magruder
- Department of the Potomac: Joseph Eggleston Johnston
- Army of the Potomac: Joseph Eggleston Johnston
- Department of South Carolina: Daniel Harvey Hill
- Department of Southwestern Virginia: William Wing Loring
- Department of Texas: Earl Van Dorn interim Paul Octave Hébert awaited
- Defences of Galveston: John Creed Moore
- Department of West Florida: Braxton Bragg
- “Forces in Pensacola”: Braxton Bragg
- Western Department: Leonidas Polk
- District of Upper Arkansas: William Joseph Hardee
- Western Army: Benjamin McCulloch
- District of East Tennessee: Felix Kirk Zollicoffer
- Defences of Savannah: Alexander Robert Lawton
- Indian Territory: Benjamin McCulloch
- Forces in Richmond: Thomas Turner Fauntleroy
- Army of the Kanawha: John Buchanan Floyd
- Army of Liberation: Gideon Johnson Pillow
- Army of the Northwest: William Wing Loring
Union Generals
- Major-General USA Winfield Scott 5 July 1841 to rank from 25 June 1841 General-in-Chief
- Major-General USA George Brinton McClellan 14 May 1861 Military Division (Department) of the Potomac
- Major-General USA John Charles Frémont 3 July 1861 to rank from 14 May 1861 Western Department
- Brigadier-General USA John Ellis Wool 25 June 1841 Department of the East & Department of Virginia awaited
- Brigadier-General USA William Selby Harney 14 June 1858
- Brigadier-General USA Edwin Vose Sumner 16 March 1861 Department of the Pacific
- Brigadier-General USA Irvin McDowell 14 May 1861 Department of Northeastern Virginia & Army of the Potomac
- Brigadier-General USA Joseph Fenno King Mansfield 17 May 1861 to rank from May 14 1861 Department of Washington
- Brigadier-General USA Montgomery Cunningham Meigs 15 May 1861 Quartermaster-General
- Brigadier-General USA Robert Anderson 17 June 1861 to rank from 15 May 1861 Department of Kentucky
- Brigadier-General USA William Starke Rosecrans 16 June 1861 to rank from 16 May 1861 Department of the Ohio & Army of Occupation
- Brigadier-General USA Henry Knox Craig August 3 1861
- Brigadier-General USA Lorenzo Thomas 5 August 1861 to rank from 3 August 1861 Adjutant General
- Brigadier-General USA James Wolfe Ripley 10 September 1861 to rank from 3 August 1861 Chief of Ordnance
- Major-General USV John Adams Dix 16 May 1861 Department of Pennsylvania
- Major-General USV Benjamin Franklin Butler 16 May 1861 Department of Virginia interim
- Major-General USV Nathaniel Prentiss Banks 3 June 1861 to rank from 16 May 1861 Department of the Shenandoah
- Major-General USV David Hunter 13 August 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Nathaniel Lyon 17 May 1861 KIA 10 August 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Jacob Dolson Cox 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Samuel Peter Heintzelman 27 May 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Robert Cumming Schenck 5 June 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV John Pope 14 June 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861 District of North Missouri
- Brigadier-General USV Joseph Jones Reynolds 14 June 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861 Cheat Mountain District
- Brigadier-General USV Stephen Augustus Hurlbut 14 June 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV William Tecumseh Sherman 3 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Andrew Porter 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV William Buel Franklin 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Charles Pomeroy Stone 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Thomas West Sherman 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Benjamin Franklin Kelley 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861 District of Grafton
- Brigadier-General USV Joseph Hooker 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV John Alexander McClernand 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Frederick West Lander 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Erasmus Darwin Keyes 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Don Carlos Buell 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Fitz-John Porter 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV George Archibald McCall 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Rufus King 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Franz Sigel 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Charles Smith Hamilton 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Samuel Ryan Curtis 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Philip Kearny 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Alpheus Starkey Williams 9 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV William Reading Montgomery 9 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Israel Bush Richardson 9 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss 9 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Darius Nash Couch 9 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Ulysses Simpson Grant 9 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861 District of Ironton
- Brigadier-General USV James Cooper 12 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Julius Stahel 12 November 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV John Wolcott Phelps 9 August 1861 to rank from 27 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV James Brewerton Ricketts April 30 1862 to rank from July 21 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Michael Corcoran August 15 1862 to rank from July 21 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Orlando Bolivar Willcox August 19 1862 to rank from July 21 1861
- Brigadier-General USV George Henry Thomas 17 August 1861 to rank from 3 August 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Ambrose Everett Burnside 9 August 1861 to rank from August 6 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Henry Hayes Lockwood August 8 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Louis Blenker 9 August 1861
- Brigadier-General USV George Webb Morell 9 August 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Henry Warner Slocum 9 August 1861
- Brigadier-General USV James Samuel Wadsworth 9 August 1861
- Brigadier-General USV John James Peck 9 August 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Ormsby McKnight Mitchel 9 August 1861
- Brigadier-General USV John Henry Martindale 9 August 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Samuel Davis Sturgis March 7 1862 to rank from August 10 1861
- Brigadier-General USV William Farrar Smith 13 August 1861
- Brigadier-General USV George Stoneman 13 August 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Henry Washington Benham 13 August 1861
- Brigadier-General USV James William Denver 14 August 1861
- Colonel Harvey Brown 14 May 1861 Department of Florida
- Colonel George Wright 3 March 1855 District of Oregon
- Colonel Benjamin Gratz Brown 22 April 1861 District of Ironton
- Colonel Charles J Biddle 21 June 1861 Cheat River District
- Major Benjamin Stone Roberts 13 May 1861 Southern District of New Mexico
Confederate Generals
- General ACSA Samuel Cooper 31 August 1861 to rank from 16 May 1861 Adjutant-General and Inspector General
- General ACSA Albert Sidney Johnston 31 August 1861 to rank from 30 May 1861
- General ACSA Robert Edward Lee 31 August 1861 to rank from 14 June 1861 Military Adviser to the President
- General ACSA Joseph Eggleston Johnston 31 August 1861 to rank from 4 July 1861 Department of the Potomac & Army of the Potomac
- General ACSA Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard 31 August 1861 to rank from 21 July 1861
- Major-General PACS David Emanuel Twiggs March 22 1861 Department No 1
- Major-General Leonidas Polk PACS 25 June 1861 Western Department
- Brigadier-General ACSA Braxton Bragg March 7 1861 Department of West Florida & Forces in Pensacola
- Brigadier-General PACS Alexander Robert Lawton 13 April 1861 Defences of Savannah
- Brigadier-General PACS Milledge Luke Bonham 23 April 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Benjamin McCulloch 11 May 1861 Indian Territory & Western Army
- Brigadier-General PACS William Wing Loring 20 May 1861 Department of Southwestern Virginia & Army of the Northwest
- Brigadier-General PACS Charles Clark 22 May 1861.
- Brigadier-General PACS John Buchanan Floyd 23 May 1861 Army of the Kanawha
- Brigadier-General PACS William Henry Talbot Walker 25 May 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Henry Rootes Jackson 4 June 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Earl Van Dorn 5 June 1861 Department of Texas interim
- Brigadier-General PACS Theophilus Hunter Holmes 5 June 1861 Department of North Carolina & Defences of North Carolina
- Brigadier-General PACS Henry Alexander Wise 5 June 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Robert Selden Garnett 6 June 1861 KIA 13 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS William Joseph Hardee 17 June 1861 District of Upper Arkansas
- Brigadier-General PACS Benjamin Huger 17 June 1861 Department of Norfolk
- Brigadier-General PACS Thomas Jonathan Jackson 17 June 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Richard Stoddert Ewell 17 June 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Henry Hopkins Sibley 17 June 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Edmund Kirby Smith 17 June 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Barnard Elliott Bee 17 June 1861 DOW 22 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS John Clifford Pemberton 17 June 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS John Bankhead Magruder 17 June 1861 Department of the Peninsula & Army of the Peninsula
- Brigadier-General PACS James Longstreet 17 June 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS David Rumph Jones 17 June 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS John Henry Winder 21 June 1861 Provost Marshal General
- Brigadier-General PACS Richard Caswell Gatlin 13 August 1861 to rank from 8 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Gideon Johnson Pillow 9 July 1861 Army of Liberation
- Brigadier-General PACS Samuel Read Anderson 9 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Benjamin Franklin Cheatham 9 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Daniel Smith Donelson 9 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Felix Kirk Zollicoffer 9 July 1861 District of East Tennessee
- Brigadier-General PACS Jones Mitchell Withers 10 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Daniel Harvey Hill 10 July 1861 Department of South Carolina & Department of Fredericksburg
- Brigadier-General PACS Richard Heron Anderson 19 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Robert Augustus Toombs 19 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Arnold Elzey 21 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Samuel Jones 21 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Jubal Anderson Early July 21 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS William Henry Chase Whiting 28 August 1861 to rank from 21 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Francis Stebbins Bartow 21 July 1861 DOW 22 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Daniel Ruggles August 6 1861 to rank from 9 August 1861 District of Aquia
- Brigadier-General PACS Isaac Ridgeway Trimble 6 August 1861 to rank from 9 August 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS George Bibb Crittenden 13 August 1861 to rank from August 15 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS John Breckinridge Grayson 13 August 1861 to rank from 15 August 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Roswell Sabine Ripley 13 August 1861 to rank from 15 August 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Albert Pike 13 August 1861 to rank from 15 August 1861
- Colonel Thomas Turner Fauntleroy Forces in Richmond
- Colonel John Creed Moore Defences of Galveston
- State Brigadier-General Paul Octave Hébert Department of Texas awaited
