October 1
A meeting of the Union voters of Union Township was held at Sherrard for the purpose of nominating two delegates to represent Marshall County in the legislature.
A meeting of Berkeley County Union men was held in Martinsburg.
A man was arrested in Wheeling for cheering for Jefferson Davis.
A Union refugee from Atlanta, Georgia, arrived in Wheeling.
October 2
The 17th West Virginia Infantry marched from Clarksburg toward Bulltown.
October 3
The 17th West Virginia Infantry camped at Weston.
October 4
October 5
A Union meeting was held at the Ohio County Courthouse in Wheeling.
Draftees from Gilmer County reported for duty in Wheeling.
October 6
October 7
A meeting of Union men of the 5th and 6th wards of Wheeling was held at the American Hall.
Fifty-one Confederate prisoners were sent to Camp Chase.
October 8
The McClellan Club met at Washington Hall in Wheeling.
October 9
October 10
The Union men of La Belle township raised a Lincoln and Johnson pole in South Wheeling.
The 17th West Virginia Infantry arrived at Bulltown and were attacked by bushwhackers.
October 11
Union men of Washington and Madison townships met at the old City Hall.
October 12
Union supporters in the Fifth and Sixth wards of Wheeling met at American Hall.
October 13
A Union meeting was held in South Wheeling.
October 14
A Lincoln and Johnson Torch Light Procession and Mass Meeting was held in Wheeling.
October 15
A regiment of African American soldiers commanded by Colonel S. H. Woodward left Wheeling on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
A Union Club meeting was held in Wheeling.
October 16
Refugees from the Shenandoah Valley arrived in Wheeling.
An African American Union regiment arrived in Wheeling and marched to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot.
October 17
A bounty jumper was arrested in Benwood.
October 18
October 19
October 20
A procession of McClellan supporters got into a fracas in Ritchietown.
A Union meeting was held at the Union Campaign Club Meeting Rooms in Wheeling.
October 21
A Wheeling citizen, who was confined in the Atheneum for expressing support, while drunk, for Jefferson Davis, was released by order of General George Crook.
October 22
A bounty jumper was arrested in Bellaire and confined in the Atheneum.
October 23
October 24
A B & O train wrecked west of Mannington, killing or wounding a number of Union soldiers.
A Union meeting was held at New Manchester in Hancock County.
October 25
General Benjamin Kelley spoke to a large crowd of Union supporters at the Ohio County Courthouse.
October 26
A Democratic meeting was held in Moundsville.
At a meeting of the officers of the 13th West Virginia Infantry, resolutions were passed commemorating the death of Lieutenant Colonel James Hall.
A Union meeting was held in Wellsburg.
A skirmish was fought at Winfield.
October 27
Elections were held throughout West Virginia.
October 28
A letter from the family of Colonel Joseph Thoburn of the First West Virginia Infantry, who was killed at the Battle of Cedar Creek, expressing their appreciation, was read at the Central Union Committee of Wheeling.
A Union Campaign Club meeting was held in Wheeling.
October 29
Confederate troops attacked the Union detachment at Beverly.
Captain Wright Kelley, son of Union General Benjamin Kelley, killed a Federal soldier at New Creek.
October 30
A bounty jumper was arrested in Wheeling and confined in the Atheneum.
October 31
A Union meeting was held in Moundsville.
Halloween was celebrated in Wheeling.