Birthdays

James Asheton Bayard Jr.
Turns 59 on this date

Thomas Forster
Turns 46 on this date

James Henry Hammond
Turns 51 on this date

Robert Mallory
Turns 43 on this date

Thurlow Weed
Turns 61 on this date

Pierce Manning Butler Young
Turns 22 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
Letter | Abraham Lincoln to Norman Buel Judd, November 15, 1858 | 11/15/1858 |
Newspaper | New York Herald, “An Abolitionist in a Slave State,” November 15, 1858 | 11/15/1858 |
Letter | Norman Buel Judd to Abraham Lincoln, November 15, 1858 | 11/15/1858 |