From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of events
Events from the year 1821 in the United States .
Incumbents
Events
Ongoing
Births
January 2 –
Napoleon LeBrun , architect (died
1901 )
January 8 –
James Longstreet , one of the foremost
Confederate generals of the
American Civil War (died
1904 )
January 16 –
John C. Breckinridge , 14th
vice president of the United States from 1857 to 1861, U.S. Senator from Kentucky in 1861 (died
1875 )
February 4 –
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman , sonneteer (died
1873 )
February 19 –
Francis Preston Blair Jr. , U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1871 to 1873 (died 1875)
March 20 –
Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr.), publisher, dime novelist and publicist (died
1886 )
April 12
April 15 –
Joseph E. Brown , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1880 to 1891 (died
1894 )
July 6 –
Edmund Pettus , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1897 to 1907 (died
1907 )
July 8 –
Maria White Lowell , poet and abolitionist (died
1853 )
July 13 –
Nathan Bedford Forrest , Confederate Civil War General, first Grand Wizard of the
Ku Klux Klan (died
1877 )
September 22 –
John Conness , Irish-born U.S. Senator from California from 1863 to 1869 (died
1909 )
October 7 –
Richard H. Anderson ,
United States Army officer during the
Mexican–American War ,
Confederate general during the
American Civil War (died
1879 )
[2]
October 10 –
Wade Keyes , Acting
Confederate States Attorney General in 1861 and 1863–1864 (died
1879 )
October 22 –
Collis P. Huntington , railroad promoter (died
1900 )
December 25 –
Clara Barton , humanitarian and founder of the
American branch of the Red Cross .
Deaths
See also
References
External links