Birthdays

Martin Franklin Conway
Turns 29 on this date

Solomon Foot
Turns 56 on this date

James Abram Garfield
Turns 27 on this date

Fitzhugh Lee
Turns 23 on this date

James Alexander McDougall
Turns 41 on this date

Charles Burton Mitchel
Turns 43 on this date

Isaac Munroe St. John
Turns 31 on this date

John Ancrum Winslow
Turns 47 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 Eleazar A. Paine, November 19, 1858 | 11/19/1858 |
Letter | Abraham Lincoln to Henry Asbury, November 19, 1858 | 11/19/1858 |
Newspaper | New York Herald, “Gen. Walker Submitting to a ‘Legal Experiment,’” November 19, 1858 | 11/19/1858 |