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 |