Birthdays

Henry "Box" Brown
Turns 42 on this date

Horace Gray
Turns 29 on this date

John Henry Hubbard
Turns 53 on this date

William Henry Longsdorff
Turns 23 on this date

William Boyer Lupton
Turns 24 on this date

Lambdin Purdy Milligan
Turns 45 on this date

Charles Henry Mytinger
Turns 24 on this date

Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose
Turns 30 on this date

John Wesley Powell
Turns 23 on this date
Events
Battles/Soldiers | American adventurer Henry A. Crabb leads an expeditionary force across the Mexican border into Sonora | 03/24/1857 |
Documents
Newspaper | New York Times, “News from Kansas,” March 24, 1857 | 03/24/1857 |