Birthdays
Henry Bergh
Turns 45 on this date
William Gannaway Brownlow
Turns 53 on this date
Anna Ella Carroll
Turns 43 on this date
Cuvier Grover
Turns 30 on this date
Thomas Lawson
Turns 69 on this date
George Washington McCrary
Turns 23 on this date
Richard Rush
Turns 78 on this date
Frederick Enoch Woodbridge
Turns 40 on this date
Events
| Campaigns/Elections | Lincoln-Douglas campaign lasts from mid-June 1858 until January 1859 |
06/16/1858 to 01/05/1859 |
| Legal/Political | The 318 slaves from a captured American slave ship are landed at Castle Pinckney, in Charleston Harbor | 08/29/1858 |
Documents
| 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 |
| Letter | Richard James Oglesby to Abraham Lincoln, August 29, 1858 | 08/29/1858 |
| Newspaper | St. Louis (MO) Republican, “Let the Jubilee be General,” August 29, 1858 | 08/29/1858 |