Birthdays
Hiram Pitt Bennet
Turns 32 on this date
Thomas Holliday Hicks
Turns 60 on this date
Charles Truman Hotchkiss
Turns 25 on this date
Henry Hotze
Turns 25 on this date
Henry Miles Moore
Turns 32 on this date
James Harrison Wilson
Turns 21 on this date
Events
| Campaigns/Elections | Lincoln-Douglas campaign lasts from mid-June 1858 until January 1859 |
06/16/1858 to 01/05/1859 |
| Crime/Disasters | Mob burns the New York State Quarantine buildings on Staten Island |
09/01/1858 to 09/02/1858 |
Documents
| Newspaper | (St. Louis) Missouri Republican, "Douglas - Lincoln," September 2, 1858 | 09/02/1858 |
| Newspaper | Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "The Little Giant," September 2, 1858 | 09/02/1858 |
| Newspaper | New York Evening Post, “The Senatorial Contest in Illinois,” September 2, 1858 | 09/02/1858 |
| 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 |