Birthdays

Benjamin Arbogast
Turns 33 on this date

Edwin Thomas Booth
Turns 25 on this date

John Adolphus Dahlgren
Turns 49 on this date

Theophilus Hunter Holmes
Turns 54 on this date

Joseph Hooker
Turns 44 on this date

Wesley Melick
Turns 27 on this date

Leonard Myers
Turns 31 on this date

John Louis O'Sullivan
Turns 45 on this date

John Wolcott Phelps
Turns 45 on this date
Events
Campaigns/Elections | Lincoln-Douglas campaign lasts from mid-June 1858 until January 1859 |
06/16/1858 to 01/05/1859 |
Documents
Newspaper | Ripley (OH) Bee, “Retribution,” November 13, 1858 | 11/13/1858 |