June 21, 1861
- North Carolina Secession Convention votes to unfurl a new flag, a blue field with red and white bars with an insignia and two dates: May 20th, 1775 (Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence) and May 20th, 1861 (Secession from the United States).
A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1
- In Greenville, on the 4th day of its second session, the East Tennessee Union Convention adopts a declaration of grievances against the usurping body which voted the State out of the Union and into the Confederate States.
- A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863