Historical Events
- Sep 1 2nd day of battle at Jonesboro Georgia, about 3,000 casualties
- Sep 1 Skirmish at Hood evacuated confederates from Atlanta GA
Battle of Atlanta
Sep 2 US Civil War: Union General William T. Sherman captures and occupy Atlanta, Georgia, ending the Atlanta Campaign [1]
- Sep 3 Battle of Berryville, Virginia, Confederate forces retreat in face of Union strength
- Sep 3 US, British, French & Dutch naval officer sails Straits of Simonoseki
- Sep 4 Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama
- Sep 5 Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
- Sep 5 British, French & Dutch fleets attack Japan in Shimonoseki Straits
- Sep 16 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Tom Morris Sr. wins third title; beats fellow Scot Andrew Strath by 2 strokes
- Sep 16 US Civil War: Battle of Coggin's Point, Virginia (Hampton-Rosser Cattle Raid)
- Sep 17 American Civil War: Grant approves Sheridan's plan for Shenandoah Valley Campaign
- Sep 18 Battle of Martinsburg, Virginia
- Sep 18 Hood's Tennessee campaign begins (also called The Franklin–Nashville Campaign), American Civil War
- Sep 19 Third Battle of Winchester, Virginia [Opequon], large bloody battle with the Union army defeating Confederate force with over 9,000 casualties
- Sep 22 Battle of Fisher's Hill, Virginia - Confederate General Jubal Early Retreats to Brown's Gap after advance by Union army under General Philip Sheridan
- Sep 27 Battle at Pilot Knob (Ft Davidson) Missouri: 1700 killed or injured
Centralia Massacre
Sep 27 Centralia Massacre: Pro-Confederate guerrillas led by William T. Anderson with Jesse James loot Centralia and attack a train on the North Missouri Railroad, executing 24 Union soldiers. Later the same day the guerillas defeat the newly formed 39th Missouri Infantry Regiment, killing 123 of its 147 solders.
- Sep 28 -30) Battle of Fort Harrison Virginia (Chaffin's Farm New Market Heights)
- Sep 29 Battle of Chaffin's Farm and New Market Heights in Henrico County, Virginia
- Sep 30 13 Black soldiers among the first Black soldiers to be honored with US Medal of Honor for leading charges against Confederate fortifications during Battle of New Market Heights, Virginia
- Sep 30 Battle of Preble's Farm Virginia (Poplar Springs Church)
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 Roger David Casement, Irish diplomat, nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), and poet, born in Sandycove, Dublin, Ireland (d. 1916)
- Sep 3 Hale A. VanderCook, American composer, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan (d. 1949)
- Sep 7 Ernest Halliwell, South African cricket wicketkeeper (8 Tests), born in Ealing, England (d. 1919)
- Sep 7 Giovanni Tebaldini, Italian composer, born in Brescia, Lombardy, Italy (d. 1952)
- Sep 14 Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British lawyer and politician who helps form League of Nations (Nobel 1937), born in Cavendish Square, London (d. 1958)
- Sep 22 Lodewijk van Deyssel, Dutch writer (A Love Affair), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1952)
- Sep 23 Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (d. 1903)
- Sep 27 Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist and author, born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands (d. 1961)
- Sep 27 Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and Catholic priest, born in Liptó County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (d. 1938)
- Sep 28 Barry Pain, English writer (Punch), born in Cambridge, England (d. 1928)
- Sep 29 Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (Ensayos, Teatro), born in Bilbao Spain (d. 1936)
Famous Weddings
John D. Rockefeller
Sep 8 Business magnate John D. Rockefeller (25) weds abolitionist Laura Spelman (24)
Famous Deaths
John Hunt Morgan (1825-1864)
Sep 4 American Confederate military leader of 'Morgan's Raiders', killed by Union troops at Greeneville at 39
- Sep 15 John Hanning Speke, British explorer, the first European to reach Lake Victoria in east Africa, dies at 37
- Sep 17 Walter Savage Landor, English poet and writer (Imaginary Conversations), dies at 89
- Sep 19 Archibald Campbell Godwin, Confederate brigadier general, dies in The Third Battle of Winchester at 32 or 33
- Sep 19 David Allen Russell, United States Army officer (Union), dies at the Third Battle of Winchester at 43
- Sep 19 Robert Emmet Rodes, American Civil War Confederate Army Major General, dies at the Third Battle of Winchester at 35
- Sep 23 Sandie [Alexander Swift] Pendleton, American Lieutenant Colonel (Confederate Army), dies at 23
- Sep 28 Peguis, Saulteaux Indian chief (assisted early settlers in Red River, signed The Selkirk Treaty), dies (b. c. 1774) [1]
- Sep 29 Hiram Burnham, American Union army officer (Chancellorsville), dies in Battle of Chaffin's Farm at 49 or 50
