Birthdays
Theodore Washington Brevard
Turns 23 on this date
James Harlan
Turns 38 on this date
Benjamin Grubb Humphreys
Turns 50 on this date
John Auchincloss Inglis
Turns 45 on this date
John Edward McCahan
Turns 26 on this date
John McKinney
Turns 61 on this date
Samuel James Powell
Turns 34 on this date
Events
| Campaigns/Elections | Lincoln-Douglas campaign lasts from mid-June 1858 until January 1859 |
06/16/1858 to 01/05/1859 |
| US/the World | The Treaty of Yedo is signed between Japan and Britain | 08/26/1858 |
Documents
| Newspaper | Leavenworth (KS) Journal, "Cheering News," August 26, 1858 | 08/26/1858 |
| Book | Recollection by Gustave Koerner, Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
07/10/1858 to 11/02/1858 |
| Book | Recollection by John M. Palmer, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 |
08/21/1858 to 10/15/1858 |