Birthdays
Louisa May Alcott
Turns 26 on this date
Andrew McElwain Criswell
Turns 34 on this date
Hamilton Rowan Gamble
Turns 60 on this date
Stephen Augustus Hurlbut
Turns 43 on this date
William Ballard Preston
Turns 53 on this date
Thomas Edwin Greenfield Ransom
Turns 24 on this date
Louis Douglass Watkins
Turns 25 on this date
Robert William Wells
Turns 63 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 | New York Times, “Steamboat Eclipse Sunk,” November 29, 1858 | 11/29/1858 |