Birthdays
George Gordon Meade
Turns 43 on this date
Jonathan Kenyon Peck
Turns 34 on this date
Noah Pinkney
Turns 12 on this date
Theodore Medad Pomeroy
Turns 34 on this date
Charles Shiels Wainwright
Turns 32 on this date
Alfred Newton Weir
Turns 18 on this date
Events
| Campaigns/Elections | Lincoln-Douglas campaign lasts from mid-June 1858 until January 1859 |
06/16/1858 to 01/05/1859 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The second session of the 35th Congress is in its ten day holiday recess until January 5, 1859 |
12/24/1858 to 01/04/1859 |
Documents
| Newspaper | (St. Louis) Missouri Republican, “Senator Douglas,” December 31, 1858 | 12/31/1858 |
| Newspaper | New York Times, “Sleeping Cars upon Railroads,” December 31, 1858 | 12/31/1858 |