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 |