Birthdays

Frederick H. Beecher
Turns 22 on this date

William Laws Boswell
Turns 35 on this date

James Henry Lane
Turns 49 on this date

James John Patterson
Turns 25 on this date

John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn
Turns 52 on this date

Richard Wootton
Turns 71 on this date
Events
Education/Culture | In London, Speke and Grant describe their finding the Nile's source to the Royal Geographical Society | 06/22/1863 |
Battles/Soldiers | In Louisiana, the Siege of Port Hudson continues |
06/15/1863 to 07/08/1863 |
Battles/Soldiers | In Mississippi, the Siege of Vicksburg continues |
05/26/1863 to 07/03/1863 |
Business/Industry | In New York, a Hudson River steamer breaks the record time from New York City to Poughkeesie | 06/22/1863 |
Battles/Soldiers | Near Greencastle in Franklin County, a Union cavalry probe meets Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania | 06/22/1863 |
US/the World | The Alexandra Case, over British neutrality in ship-building, opens in London | 06/22/1863 |
Battles/Soldiers | The Second Corps of the Army of Virginia crosses the Potomac and marches on Pennsylvania |
06/20/1863 to 06/22/1863 |
Personal | Twenty year William H. Rihl becomes the first Union soldier killed meeting Lee's invasion | 06/22/1863 |
Documents
Book | Recollection by Ulysses S. Grant, Siege of Vicksburg, May – July 4, 1863 |
05/25/1863 to 07/04/1863 |