Birthdays

Olympia Brown
Turns 22 on this date
Henry Eaton Coleman
Turns 20 on this date

William Preston Johnston
Turns 26 on this date

Augustus Valentine Kautz
Turns 29 on this date

John Doby Kennedy
Turns 17 on this date

Joseph Brevard Kershaw
Turns 35 on this date

George Fiske Round
Turns 17 on this date

Edmund Ruffin
Turns 63 on this date
Events
Lawmaking/Litigating | The second regular session of the 34th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC between early December and early March |
12/02/1856 to 03/02/1857 |
Documents
Letter | John Henry Hill to William Still, January 5, 1857 | 01/05/1857 |
Newspaper | New York Times, "The Dred Scott Case," January 5, 1857 | 01/05/1857 |