Birthdays

Noah Bowlus
Turns 32 on this date

Gordon Newell Mott
Turns 49 on this date

David Harrison Walton
Turns 31 on this date

Amiel Weeks Whipple
Turns 44 on this date
Events
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 |
Documents
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 |