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Friday June 21 1861
No events on this date.
Sunday June 21 1862
  • Federal expedition to Hernando, MS, with skirmish at Coldwater Station, MS, as the Union attempt to ambush M. Jeff Thompson's Confederate guerrillas, meets with limited success.
  • Engagement at Simmons' Bluff, SC, with Federal gunboats.
  • Skirmish at Rankin's Ferry, near Jasper, TN.
  • Skirmish at Battle Creek, TN.
  • The Confederate Dept. of North Carolina is extended to the south bank of the James River, VA.
  • Skirmish near Fair Oaks Station, VA.
Sunday June 21 1863
  • Skirmish at Brashear City, LA.
  • Skirmish at Frederick, MD, with Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate advance.
  • Skirmish on the Helena Road, MS.
  • Skirmish at Hudsonville, MS.
  • Affair on Dixon's Island, SC, with a Confederate movement on the Union cavalry pickets, who retire when fired upon.
  • Skirmish at Powder Springs Gap, TN, with Col. William Sanders, USA.
  • Skirmish near Gainesville, VA.
  • Skirmishes at and about Thoroughfare Gap and Hay Market, VA. with Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate advance. (Jun 21-25)
  • Engagement at Upperville, VA, with Robert E. Lee's, CSA advance, and Brig. Gen. H. Judson Kilpatrick, USA, Cavalry.
Tuesday June 21 1864
  • Skirmish in Decatur County, TN.
  • Action at Hewlett's Bluff, VA, the Richmond, VA, Campaign.
  • President Abraham Lincoln tours the Petersburg, VA, siege lines on horseback with Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USA.
  • Skirmishes at White House or Saint Peter's Church and Black Creek, or Tunstall's Station, VA, the Richmond, VA, Campaign.
  • Confederate Secretary of the Treasury, Christopher G. Memminger, resigns due to criticism of his handling the Confederate Treasury, Richmond, VA.
Wednesday June 21 1865
  • Brig. Gen. James C. Veatch, USA, is assigned to the command of the Union forces in West Louisiana.

On This Day information kindly provided by Martin Cross, 2nd U.S. Artillery, Bty B.