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Battles/Soldiers	Future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes survives a near-fatal wound at Ball's Bluff	10/21/1861
Battles/Soldiers	Union forces defeat Missouri State Guardsmen outside of Fredericktown in Madison County, Missouri	10/21/1861
Battles/Soldiers	Union troops suffer a heavy defeat at Ball's Bluff on the Virginia side of the Potomac	10/21/1861

Newspaper	New York Herald, “The Pacific Telegraph Line,” October 21, 1861	10/21/1861
Military record	USN Commander Melacton Smith reports an engagement with a Confederate warship off Mississippi coast, October 21, 1861	10/21/1861