21 May, 1862: Wednesday

Union - Government
President Lincoln replies to General McClellan's request for help from McDowell's Corps, which was moving overland to Richmond, saying, "You will have just such control of General McDowell and his force as you therein indicate. McDowell can reach you by land sooner than he could get aboard of boats if the boats were ready at Fredericksburg- unless his March shall be resisted, in which case, the force resisting him, will certainly not be confronting you at Richmond."

Confederates - Military
Stonewall Jackson's troops march north in the Luray Valley of Virginia, heading toward Front Royal.

General Banks and his Union troops are in the other branch of the Shenandoah, beyond Massanutten, but they also are marching north.

Mississippi
There is a skirmish near Corinth, at Widow Serratt's and Phillip's Creek.

Arkansas
There is a skirmish at Village Creek.

South Carolina
There is a skirmish at Battery Island

New Mexico Territory
There is a skirmish at Paraje.

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