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 |