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| August 21, 1850 | The short-lived Southern National party is formed in Macon, Georgia, by Barnwell Rhett, William Lowndes Yancy and others. | Georgia |
| Robert Barnwell Rhett | ||
| August 21, 1858 | First of seven Lincoln-Douglas debates | Illinois |
| Stephen A. Douglas | ||
| Abraham Lincoln | ||
| August 21, 1861 | Second Wheeling Convention adjourns | |
| Second Wheeling Convention | ||
| August 21, 1862 | Braxton Bragg crosses the Tennessee River at Chattanooga. | Tennessee |
| Confederate Invasion of Kentucky | ||
| Army of Mississippi | ||
| August 21, 1863 | The Confederate Navy attempts to attack the USS New Ironsides with a torpedo from the four-man vessel the CSS David. The attack is ineffective | |
| USS New Ironsides | ||
| August 21, 1863 | Quantrill's Raiders, now numbering more 400, attack Lawrence, Kansas, killing every male they could find who was old enough to carry a gun (a total of 183 men). One they missed was U. S. Senator James H. Lane, who hid in a cornfield in his nightshirt. Quantrill's men burned the town following the raid | Kansas Missouri |
| August 21, 1864 | Forrest liberates Memphis
Almost 2,000 Confederates occupied Memphis for a few hours during the day, nearly capturing Major Generals Stephen Hurlbut and C. C. Washburn. The raid forced troops operating in the area to withdraw to Memphis, giving Forrest free reign to raid William Tecumseh Sherman's supply lines |
Tennessee |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest |
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| June 15, 1864 April 2, 1865 |
Siege of Petersburg | Virginia |
| Robert E. Lee | ||
| P. G. T. Beauregard | ||
| Army of Northern Virginia | ||
| Ulysses S. Grant | ||
| Siege of Petersburg | ||
| April 12, 1861 May 10, 1865 |
The American Civil War | |
| The Civil War | ||
| August 3, 1864 August 23, 1864 |
Battle of Mobile Bay | Alabama |
| David Farragut | ||
| Gordon Granger | ||
| Battle of Mobile Bay | ||
| July 16, 1862 September 1, 1862 |
Northern Virginia Campaign - sometimes just called the Virginia Campaign. | Virginia |
| Northern Virginia Campaign |
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