Birthdays

James Barnes
Turns 56 on this date

Charles Rollin Buckalew
Turns 36 on this date

Jeremiah Clemens
Turns 43 on this date

Thomas Ewing Sr.
Turns 68 on this date

Thomas Alexander Scott
Turns 34 on this date

Charles Miller Shelley
Turns 24 on this date

William Booth Taliaferro
Turns 35 on this date

Richard Hanson Weightman
Turns 41 on this date

Addison Weller
Turns 21 on this date
Events
Lawmaking/Litigating | The 35th Congress is in a ten-day holiday recess until January 5, 1858 |
12/24/1857 to 01/04/1858 |
Documents
Letter | Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull, December 28, 1857 | 12/28/1857 |
Speech | Abraham Lincoln, Fragment of a Speech, circa December 28, 1857 | 12/28/1857 |