TODAY IN CIVIL WAR HISTORY
January 21
January 21
TIMELINES
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Fort Sumter
MILITARY
& POLITICAL
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1863
- Skirmish at Milliken's Bend. Louisiana
- Skirmish near Columbia. Missouri
- Operations against Marmaduke (Dec. 31, 1862-Jan. 25, 1863). Missouri
- Affair near Murfreesboro. Tennessee
- Skirmish on the Shelbyville Pike. Tennessee
- Affair at Sabine Pass. Texas
- Union General Ambrose Burnside's Mud March (Jan. 20-24). Virginia
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1864
- Union Expedition to Quallatown (January 21-February 7). North Carolina
- Skirmish on Strawberry Plains. Tennessee
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1865
- Skirmish at Marion. Arkansas
- Affair at Presidio del Norte. Mexico
- Carolinas Campaign (Jan. 1-April 29, 1865). South Carolina & North Carolina MORE
- Siege of Petersburg and Richmond (June 16, 1864-April 2, 1865). Virginia
BIRTHS
- John C. Fremont Union General (1813)
- Thomas J. Jackson Confederate General (1824)
- Thomas Clement Fletcher Union field officer & Governor of Missouri (1827)
- Edward C. Edmonds Confederate Field Officer (1835)
- Henry Livermore Abbott Union Field Officer & Brevet Brigadier general (1842)
- Walter Blow Chambliss Confederate Field Officer (1846)
DEATHS
- Charles Wheelock Union Field Officer (1865)
- Alexander S. Asboth Union General (1868)
- Thomas Bragg (1872)
- Birkett Davenport Fry Confederate General (1891)
- Thomas Ewing Union General (1896)
- Nathan Kimball Union General (1898)