Birthdays

John Wesley Awl
Turns 27 on this date

Joseph Jackson Bartlett
Turns 25 on this date

Richard Brooke Garnett
Turns 42 on this date
Events
Crime/Disasters | British passenger ship hits the Nova Scotia coast and is lost along with twenty-seven lives | 11/21/1859 |
Business/Industry | Canada's Grand Trunk Railway links Montreal with Detroit | 11/21/1859 |
Campaigns/Elections | New governor of Mississippi is inaugurated in Jackson and calls for a convention of southern states | 11/21/1859 |
Legal/Political | United States Army reports its strength as 17,036 officers and men in nineteen regiments | 11/21/1859 |
Documents
Newspaper | Hartford (CT) Courant, "Untitled," November 21, 1859 | 11/21/1859 |
Letter | Mrs. M. Brooks to William Still, November 21, 1859 | 11/21/1859 |