Birthdays
Frederick William Benteen
Turns 27 on this date
Hiram Gregory Berry
Turns 37 on this date
Thomas Fenwick Drayton
Turns 53 on this date
John Day Easter
Turns 31 on this date
George Whitefield John
Turns 22 on this date
Edmund Ayres Maginniss
Turns 29 on this date
George Earl Maney
Turns 35 on this date
John Newton
Turns 39 on this date
Events
| US/the World | Queen Victoria makes her third visit to Ireland |
08/22/1861 to 08/29/1861 |
| Battles/Soldiers | The first of the six new warships Congress appropriated for at the start of the war is launched in Philadelphia | 08/24/1861 |