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 |