Civil War Day-By-Day

October 3, 1861

• Battle of Greenbriar WV

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• Battle at Greenbrier, Va.; rebels defeated after an hour’s fighting, and a large number of cattle and horses taken by the U. S. troops.
• Ex-Street Commissioner of New York, Gustavus W. Smith, appointed a brig.-general in the rebel army.
• Rebels evacuated Lexington, Mo.
• Skirmish at Buffalo Hill, Ky.; Union loss 10 killed and 10 wounded; rebel loss 52 killed, etc.

1. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863