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Monday, March 21, 2011

21 March, 1862, Friday

Civilian - Confederacy
A Norfolk, Virginia newspaper, the Day-Book, complains about increased drinking, particularly among Confederate officers, who were said to imbibe "in quantities which would astonish the nerves of a cast-iron lamp-post, and a quality which would destroy the digeative organs of an ostrich.

Union - Military
Missouri
There is a small skirmish at McKay's farm.

Tennessee
There is a reconnaissance and skirmish at Cumberland Gap.

Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971

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