Birthdays
James Dixon
Turns 43 on this date
Joseph Gordon Hamblen
Turns 13 on this date
James Bedell McKean
Turns 36 on this date
Carnot Posey
Turns 39 on this date
Duke Slavens
Turns 17 on this date
Thomas Weston Tipton
Turns 40 on this date
Erastus Wentworth
Turns 44 on this date
Events
| Legal/Political | Lincoln begins organizing for Senate campaign | 08/05/1857 |
Documents
| Letter | Abraham Lincoln to B. Clarke Lundy, August 5, 1857 | 08/05/1857 |
| Newspaper | New York Times, “Tragical Affair in Chester Country, Pa.,” August 5, 1857 | 08/05/1857 |