Birthdays

Joseph Bradford Carr
Turns 30 on this date

Henry Winter Davis
Turns 41 on this date

John Punchard Jewett
Turns 44 on this date

James Franklin Purvis
Turns 24 on this date

John Severn Tyler
Turns 18 on this date
Events
Campaigns/Elections | Lincoln-Douglas campaign lasts from mid-June 1858 until January 1859 |
06/16/1858 to 01/05/1859 |
Documents
Letter | David Davis to Ozias Mather Hatch, August 16, 1858 | 08/16/1858 |
Newspaper | New York Herald, “The Illinois Campaign,” August 16, 1858 | 08/16/1858 |
Book | Recollection by Gustave Koerner, Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
07/10/1858 to 11/02/1858 |