Birthdays
Rush Elmore
Turns 40 on this date
Richard W. Johnson
Turns 32 on this date
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Turns 52 on this date
James Madison Marvin
Turns 50 on this date
William Pape
Turns 9 on this date
Edward Alfred Pollard
Turns 28 on this date
John Locke Scripps
Turns 41 on this date
John William Clark Watson
Turns 51 on this date
Events
| Crime/Disasters | Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York murders Philip Barton Key in the street in Washington D.C. | 02/27/1859 |
| Battles/Soldiers | First Cavalry fight a small skirmish with Comanche in the Wachita Mountains | 02/27/1859 |
| Crime/Disasters | Steamboat Princess explodes and sinks on the lower Mississippi with heavy loss of life | 02/27/1859 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The second session of the 35th U.S. Congress is sitting between early January and early March, 1859 |
01/05/1859 to 03/02/1859 |
Documents
| Newspaper | Memphis (TN) Appeal, “Slave Property Protected in New Mexico,” February 27, 1859 | 02/27/1859 |