Birthdays

Charles Heydrick
Turns 26 on this date
James Philemon Holcombe
Turns 38 on this date

Elizabeth Smith Miller
Turns 36 on this date

Edward Asbury O'Neal
Turns 40 on this date

Samuel Richard Peale
Turns 28 on this date

Sterling Price
Turns 49 on this date

John Fulton Reynolds
Turns 38 on this date

Robert Bruce Van Valkenburgh
Turns 37 on this date

Charles Bedford Young
Turns 29 on this date
Events
Campaigns/Elections | Lincoln-Douglas campaign lasts from mid-June 1858 until January 1859 |
06/16/1858 to 01/05/1859 |
Slavery/Abolition | The U.S.S. Niagara sails from Charleston for Liberia carrying the Africans freed from the slave ship Echo | 09/20/1858 |
Documents
Newspaper | Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "Douglas Puffers and Valets," September 20, 1858 | 09/20/1858 |
Newspaper | Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "Bad State of Things," September 20, 1858 | 09/20/1858 |
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 |