Birthdays
Mansfield Lovell
Turns 37 on this date
Events
| Lawmaking/Litigating | John Brown and his fellow prisoners are held at Charlestown, Virginia pending trial |
10/20/1859 to 10/24/1859 |
| Foreign | The Spanish-Moroccan War begins in earnest | 10/22/1859 |
Documents
| Newspaper | Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “Old John Brown,” October 22, 1859 | 10/22/1859 |
| Newspaper | New Orleans (LA) Picayune, "Monthly Passes to Negros," October 22, 1859 | 10/22/1859 |
| Newspaper | New Orleans (LA) Picayune, "The Harper's Ferry Outbreak," October 22, 1859 | 10/22/1859 |