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 |