150 Years Ago Today at Petersburg: June 21, 1864

June 21, 1864

Action at Howlett’s Bluff, VA, the Richmond (VA) Campaign.

Skirmish at Davis Farm.

President Abraham Lincoln tours the Petersburg, VA, siege lines on horseback with Lieut. Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant, USA, as both sides continue to entrench.

Skirmishes at White House or Saint Peter’s Church and Black Creek, or Tunstall’s Station, VA, the Richmond (VA) Campaign.

Note: All “Today In The Petersburg Campaign” blog entries are used with permission from Ronald A. Mosocco’s Chronological Tracking of the American Civil War per the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion. Order the book HERE.

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Mentions of This Date at The Siege of Petersburg Online:

• 150 Years Ago Today at Petersburg: June 21, 1864
• 150 Years Ago Today: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road, Day 1: June 21, 1864
• “The Whole Affair Was a Fiasco”: The Action at Howlett’s Bluff from the Confederate Perspective, June 21, 1864 by William H. Parker
• BEARSS MAP: Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road, June 20-24, 1864 TOPO
• BEARSS MAP: Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road, June 20-21, 1864 Map 1
• BEARSS MAP: Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road, June 21-22, 1864 Map 2
• B&L: Closing Operations in the James River by James R. Soley
• CLARK NC: 1st North Carolina Cavalry at the Siege of Petersburg
• CLARK NC: 2nd North Carolina Cavalry at the Siege of Petersburg
• CLARK NC: 3rd North Carolina Cavalry at the Siege of Petersburg
• DI: June 1864 John D. Vautier (88th PA) Diary Entries
• ITINERARY: 48th North Carolina
• ITINERARY: 85th Pennsylvania
• LT: June 21, 1864 “H. E. H.” (50th NY Engineers)
• LT: June 21, 1864 Robert E. Lee
• MAP: Action at Howlett’s Bluff, June 21, 1864
• “Death Were No Terror to His Soul”: Major Edward G. Park of the 35th Massachusetts
• NP: June 21, 1864 Petersburg Daily Express: A Battle at Hand, June 21, 1864
• NP: June 22, 1864 Petersburg Daily Express: Gary’s Cavalry Brigade Burns the James River Wharves, June 19, 1864
• NP: June 22, 1864 Petersburg Daily Express: Local Matters, June 20-21, 1864
• NP: June 22, 1864 Petersburg Daily Express: From the Petersburg Front, June 20-21, 1864
• NP: June 22, 1864 Raleigh Confederate: Telegraphic Reports, June 19-21
• NP: June 22, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Telegraphic Reports, June 21
• NP: June 22, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The News from Petersburg, June 20-21
• NP: June 22, 1864 Richmond Examiner: War News, June 21
• NP: June 23, 1864 Petersburg Daily Express: From the Petersburg Front, June 22, 1864
• NP: June 23, 1864 Petersburg Daily Express: Telegraphic Reports, June 20-22
• NP: June 23, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: Associated Press, June 19-21
• NP: June 23, 1864 Raleigh Confederate: From the Petersburg Express of June 21
• NP: June 23, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Telegraphic Reports, June 21-22
• NP: June 23, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The News from Petersburg, June 21-22
• NP: June 24, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: Associated Press, June 20-22
• NP: June 24, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: Rebel Attack at White House, June 20
• NP: June 24, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, June 21-23
• NP: June 27, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: 1st PA Cav at Skirmish at White House, June 20-21 1864
• NP: June 27, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road, June 22, 1864
• NP: June 27, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, June 21-26
• NP: June 30, 1864 Petersburg Daily Express: A Captured Yankee Letter from the 19th Massachusetts
• NP: July 8, 1864 The Bedford Inquirer: 55th PA at Second Petersburg, June 14-21, 1864
• NP: July 9, 1864 Irish-American (New York, NY): The USS Onondaga in the Action at Howlett’s Bluff, June 21, 1864
• NP: July 10, 1864 Sunday Mercury (New York): USS Hydrangea and the Action at Howlett’s Bluff, June 21, 1864
• NP: June 16, 1902 New Orleans Times-Picayune: Donaldsonville Cannoniers at the Siege of Petersburg, Part 2
• NP: February 18, 1925 Potsdam NY Courier and Freeman: Orlando P. Benson Diary, 92nd NY, Part 2
• NP: June 22, 1964 Petersburg Progress-Index: Siege Centennial, Part 14: An Extension On The Left
• OR XL P1 (Broadfoot Sup.) #1: Excerpt from a Report Appended to the Diary of 1st Lt. Edmund D. Halsey, 15th NJ, June 13-July 10, 1864
• OR XL P1 #2: Dispatches of Charles A. Dana, Asst Secy of War June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 (Broadfoot Sup.) #2: Report of Surg. Roger W. Pease, Cav/AotP, June 19-26, 1864
• OR XL P1 (Broadfoot Sup.) #3: Report of Colonel John C. Tidball, 4th NYHA, commanding Arty/II/AotP, June 12-July 2, 1864
• OR XL P1 (Broadfoot Sup.) #4: Report of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas R. Allcock, 4th NYHA, June 13-30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #5: Reports of Major General George G. Meade June 14-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #23: Reports of Captain James Fleming, 28th MA, June 13-July 31, 1864
• OR XL P1 #24: Report of Major Nathan Church, 26th MI, June 12-July 31, 1864
• OR XL P1 #26: Report of Major James E. Larkin, 5th NH, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #27: Report of Major George Hogg, 2nd NY HA, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #29: Report of Major George W. Scott, 61st NY, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #32: Report of Captain Thomas Henry, 140th PA, June 12-July 31, 1864
• OR XL P1 #33: Reports of Lieutenant Colonel George T. Egbert, 183rd PA, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #35: Report of Captain David A. Allen, 39th NY, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #36: Report of Captain George Degener, 52nd NY, June 13-July 26, 1864
• OR XL P1 #37: Report of Captain I. Hart Wilder (of 126th NY), 57th NY, June 16-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #38: Report of Captain Alexander Watts, 63rd NY, June 11-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #39: Report of Captain Robert H. Milliken, 69th NY, June 13-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #41: Report of Lieutenant Colonel Denis F. Burke, 88th NY, June 16-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #42: Report of Captain Marcus W. Murdock, 111th NY, June 14-August 25, 1864
• OR XL P1 #43: Report of Captain Nelson Penfield, 125th NY, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #44: Report of Captain John B. Geddis, 126th NY, June 13-July 29, 1864
• OR XL P1 #45: Report of Lieutenant Colonel William Glenny (of the 64th NY), commanding 4/1/II/AotP, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #47: Report of Lieutenant Colonel William Glenny, 64th NY, June 14-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #48: Report of Lieutenant Simon Pincus, 66th NY, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #51: Report of Captain James Patton, 53rd PA, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #53: Report of Captain Garrett Nowlan, 116th PA, June 13-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #55: Report of Captain James F. Weaver, 148th PA, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #57: Report of Major Edward A. Springsteed, 7th NYHA, June 13-July 31, 1864
• OR XL P1 #59: Reports of Major General John Gibbon, commanding 2/II/AotP, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #61: Report of Captain Joseph W. Spaulding, 19th ME, June 13-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #62: Report of Captain James C. Farwell, 1st MN, June 11-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #71: Report of Major Erastus M. Spaulding, 8th NYHA, June 12-July 29, 1864
• OR XL P1 #72: Report of Colonel Thomas A. Smyth, 1st DE, commanding 3/2/II/AotP, June 13-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #78: Reports of Brigadier General P. Regis de Trobriand, commanding 1/3/II/AotP, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #80: Report of Lieutenant Colonel Michael W. Burns, 73rd NY, June 13-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #81: Report of Captain John B. Vande Wiele, 4th NYHA, June 12-August 5, 1864
• OR XL P1 #84: Report of Captain Daniel S. Root, 3rd MI, June 22, 1864
• OR XL P1 #86: Reports of Major Samuel McConihe, 93rd NY, June 13-July 31, 1864
• OR XL P1 #87: Reports of Lieutenant Colonel William B. Neeper, 57th PA, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #88: Reports of Lieutenant Colonel George Zinn, 84th PA, June 12-July 31, 1864
• OR XL P1 #91: Report of Captain John Wilson, 1st USSS, June 16-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #94: Report of Captain Thomas C. Godfrey, 5th NJ, June 14-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #95: Reports of Captain Thomas C. Thompson, 7th NJ, June 13-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #96: Report of Major Virgil M. Healy, 8th NJ, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #98: Report of Lieutenant John Schoonover, 11th NJ, June 16-July 28, 1864
• OR XL P1 #99: Report of Colonel John C. Tidball, 4th NYHA, commanding Arty/II/AotP, June 12-July 1, 1864
• OR XL P1 #101: Report of Captain Edwin B. Dow, 6th ME Btty, June 13-July 31, 1864
• OR XL P1 #102: Report of Captain J. Henry Sleeper, 10th MA Btty, June 13-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #103: Report of Captain Frederick M. Edgell, 1st NH Btty, June 12-July 31, 1864
• OR XL P1 #104: Reports of Captain A. Judson Clark, Btty B 1st NJ Lt Arty, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #105: Report of Captain Nelson Ames, Btty G 1st NY Lt Arty, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #106: Report of Captain James H. Wood, 4th NYHA, commanding Mortar Battery, June 12-21, 1864
• OR XL P1 #107: Report of Captain John E. Burton, 11th NY Btty, June 12-August 1, 1864
• OR XL P1 #108: Report of Captain George F. McKnight, 12th NY Btty, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #109: Report of Captain R. Bruce Ricketts, Btty F 1st PA Lt Arty, June 12-July 1, 1864
• OR XL P1 #110: Report of Lieutenant G. Lyman Dwight, Btty A 1st RI Lt Arty, June 8-30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #112: Report of Lieutenant John W. Roder, Btty K 4th US Arty, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #113: Report of Lieutenant James Gilliss, Bttys C & I, 5th US Arty, June 12-30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #114: Report of Major General Gouverneur K. Warren, commanding V/AotP, July 27-30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #115: Reports of Colonel Wiliam S. Tilton, 22nd MA, commanding 1/1/V/AotP, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #117: Report of Major Mason W. Burt, 22nd MA, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #118: Report of Major James A. Cunningham, 32nd MA, June 13-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #119: Report of Major John D. Lentz, 91st PA, June 13-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #120: Report of Colonel Alfred L. Pearson, 155th PA, June 14-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #121: Report of Major Oliver B. Knowles, 21st PA Cav, June 13-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #122: Report of Major Ellis Spear, 20th ME, June 12-21, 1864
• OR XL P1 #123: Report of Captain Benjamin F. Meservey, 18th MA, June 12-July 20, 1864
• OR XL P1 #124: Report of Lieutenant Colonel Wiliam A. Throop, 1st MI, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #125: Report of Captain Guy W. Fuller, 16th MI, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #126: Report of Major Edward B. Knox, 44th NY, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #128: Report of Lieutenant Colonel Charles P. Herring, 118th PA, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #131: Report of Lieutenant Colonel Michael Wiedrich, 15th NYHA, June 11-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #142: Reports of Colonel Charles S. Wainwright, 1st NY Lt Arty, commanding Arty/V/AotP, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #148: Report of Major Henry R. Dalton, AAG, 1/VI/AotP, June 12-July 9, 1864
• OR XL P1 #149: Report of Captain Baldwin Hufty, 4th NJ, June 13-July 10, 1864
• OR XL P1 #150: Report of Brigadier General Emory Upton, commanding 2/1/VI/AotP, June 12-July 10, 1864
• OR XL P1 #151: Report of Colonel Oliver Edwards, 37th MA, commanding 3/1/VI/AotP, June 12-July 10, 1864
• OR XL P1 #152: Report of Brigadier General W. Getty, commanding 2/VI/AotP, June 12-July 9, 1864
• OR XL P1 #153: Report of Brigadier General Frank Wheaton, commanding 1/2/VI/AotP, June 13-July 10, 1864
• OR XL P1 #154: Report of Major Thomas McLaughlin, 102nd PA, June 12-July 9, 1864
• OR XL P1 #155: Report of Major Robert Munroe, 139th PA, June 13-July 9, 1864
• OR XL P1 #156: Report of Brigadier General Lewis A. Grant, commanding 2/2/VI/AotP, June 12-July 9, 1864
• OR XL P1 #157: Report of Brigadier General Daniel D. Bidwell, commanding 3/2/VI/AotP, June 12-July 2, 1864
• OR XL P1 #158: Report of Colonel William S. Truex, 14th NJ, commanding 1/3/VI/AotP, June 12-July 6, 1864
• OR XL P1 #159: Report of Colonel J. Warren Keifer, 110th OH, commanding 2/3/VI/AotP, June 12-July 6, 1864
• OR XL P1 #160: Report of Colonel John W. Horn, 6th MD, June 13-July 9, 1864
• OR XL P1 #161: Report of Major Charles Burgess, 9th NYHA, June 12-July 7, 1864
• OR XL P1 #162: Report of Lieutenant Colonel Otho H. Binkley, 110th OH, June 13-July 6, 1864
• OR XL P1 #163: Report of Colonel William H. Ball, 122nd OH, June 13-July 6, 1864
• OR XL P1 #164: Report of Lieutenant Colonel Aaron W. Ebright, 126th OH, June 12-July 6, 1864
• OR XL P1 #166: Report of Captain Charles W. White, 4th ME Btty, June 12-July 29, 1864
• OR XL P1 #167: Report of Captain Greenleaf T. Stevens, 5th ME Btty, June 12-July 10, 1864
• OR XL P1 #168: Report of Lieutenant Jacob Federhen, Btty A MA Lt Arty, June 12-July 11, 1864
• OR XL P1 #170: Report of Captain Andrew Cowan, 1st NY Btty, June 13-July 12, 1864
• OR XL P1 #171: Report of Captain William A. Harn, 3rd NY Btty, June 13-July 31, 1864
• OR XL P1 #172: Report of Lieutenant Jacob H. Lamb, Btty C 1st RI Lt Arty, June 12-July 11, 1864
• OR XL P1 #173: Report of Captain William B. Rhodes, Btty E 1st RI Lt Arty, June 13-July 29, 1864
• OR XL P1 #174: Report of Captain George W. Adams, Btty G 1st RI Lt Arty, June 12-July 11, 1864
• OR XL P1 #215: Reports of Captain Albert F. Thomas, 2nd ME Btty, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #223: Reports of Captain Jacob Roemer, 34th NY Btty, June 12-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #230: Reports of Brigadier General James H. Wilson, commanding 3/Cav/AotP, June 17-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #233: Report of Lieutenant Colonel Charles C. Suydam, 3rd NJ Cav, June 14-July 25, 1864
• OR XL P1 #244: Reports of Colonel Henry L. Abbot, 1st CTHA, commanding Siege Train, June 14-October 31, 1864
• OR XL P1 #245: Report of Brigadier General Godfrey Weitzel, Chief Engineer, Dept of VA and NC, June 1-30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #265: Reports of Colonel Edgar M. Cullen, 96th NY, commanding 1/1/XVIII/AotJ, June 20-30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #267: Report of Brigadier General Hiram Burnham, commanding 2/1/XVIII/AotJ, June 20-July 1, 1864
• OR XL P1 #270: Reports of Colonel Guy V. Henry, 40th MA, commanding 3/1/XVIII/AotJ, June 15-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #271: Report of Captain James F. Brown, 21st CT, June 13-August 26, 1864
• OR XL P1 #280: Reports of Brigadier General August V. Kautz, commanding Cav/AotJ, June 15-30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #281: Report of Colonel Robert M. West, 5th PA Cav, commanding 1/Cav/AotJ, June 21-30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #283: Report of Captain John M. Willson, 3rd NY Cav, June 21-30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #284: Reports of Colonel Samuel P. Spear, 11th PA Cav, commanding 2/Cav/AotJ, June 15-30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #285: Reports of Major J. Stannard Baker, 1st DC Cav, June 15-30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #293: Reports of General Robert E. Lee, commanding ANV, June 16-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #294: Report of Brigadier General William N. Pendleton, Arty/ANV, June 16-July 30, 1864
• OR XL P1 #295. Diary of the First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, June 16-July 31, 1864
• OR XL P1 #308: Itinerary of Hardaway Light Artillery Battalion, June 16-July 27, 1864
• OR XLVI P1 #1: Report of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, commanding U.S. Army, March 1864-May, 1865
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Union Telegrams to and from the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, June 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Union Orders in the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, June 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Report of Acting Rear-Admiral Samuel P. Lee, June 20-21, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Report of Lieutenant-Commander Charles A. Babcock, U. S. S. Morse, June 20-24, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Report of Acting Master William B. Sheldon, U. S. S. Shokokon, May 28-June 23, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Telegram from Acting Rear-Admiral Samuel P. Lee, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, June 21, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Letter from Acting Rear-Admiral Samuel P. Lee to Major General Benjamin F. Butler, June 21, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Letter from Commander John M. B. Clitz, USS Osceola, June 21, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Letter from Lieutenant Commander Jonathan S. Barnes, Fleet Captain on the James River, June 21, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Report of Acting Rear-Admiral Samuel P. Lee, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, June 21, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Report of Commander Tunis A. M. Craven, USS Tecumseh, June 21, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Report of Commander Edmund R. Colhoun, USS Saugus, June 21, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Report of Lieutenant Commander Charles H. Cushman, USS Onondaga, June 21, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Report of Commander Enoch G. Parrott, USS Canonicus, June 21, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Report of Commander Alexander C. Rhind, USS Agawam, June 21, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Letter from Acting Rear Admiral Samuel P. Lee to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, June 23, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Special Order of Flag-Officer Mitchell, James River Squadron, June 21, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Report of Lieutenant Joseph M. Garder, CSS Beaufort, June 21, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Telegram of Flag Officer Jonathan K. Mitchell to Secretary of the Navy Stephen R. Mallory, June 21, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Report of Flag Officer Jonathan K. Mitchell, James River Squadron, June 20-22, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Memorandum of Movements of the CSS Virginia, June 21, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Report of Commander Thomas R. Rootes, CSS Fredericksburg, June 21-22
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Report of Lieutenant William H. Wall, CSS Drewry, June 21-22, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Report of Lieutenant John S. Maury, CSS Hampton, June 21, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Report of Lieutenant Charles W. Hays, CSS Nansemond, June 21, 1864
• ORN Series 1, Vol. X: Report of Lieutenant Mortimer M. Benton, CSS Roanoke, June 21, 1864
• SHS Papers: Volume 19: A Remarkable Victory. Wilson’s Defeat at the Staunton River Bridge in 1864 by Dabney H. Maury et al
• Confederate Casualties at the Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road: June 21-23, 1864
• Confederate Casualties June-July 1864 Kepi Articles by Bryce Suderow
• The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road: June 21-24, 1864
• The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road Wikipedia Map: June 21-22, 1864
• Upcoming Posts on the Action at Howlett’s Bluff, June 21, 1864
• UPR: Report of LtCol John W. McGill, 18th North Carolina, Lane’s Brigade, of operations May 6-July 28, 1864