Birthdays
Otto C. Bardon
Turns 17 on this date
Calvin Clifford Chaffee
Turns 47 on this date
William Alexander Hammond
Turns 30 on this date
Lucy Webb Hayes
Turns 27 on this date
Thomas Williams
Turns 52 on this date
Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum
Turns 9 on this date
Events
| Campaigns/Elections | Lincoln-Douglas campaign lasts from mid-June 1858 until January 1859 |
06/16/1858 to 01/05/1859 |
| Personal | William Fitzhugh Gordon, former Congressman from Virginia, dies in Albemarle County, Virginia | 08/28/1858 |
Documents
| Newspaper | Charleston (SC) Mercury, “A Slaver in Our Port,” August 28, 1858 | 08/28/1858 |
| 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 |