Birthdays
Louisa May Alcott
Turns 27 on this date
Andrew McElwain Criswell
Turns 35 on this date
Hamilton Rowan Gamble
Turns 61 on this date
Stephen Augustus Hurlbut
Turns 44 on this date
William Ballard Preston
Turns 54 on this date
Thomas Edwin Greenfield Ransom
Turns 25 on this date
Louis Douglass Watkins
Turns 26 on this date
Robert William Wells
Turns 64 on this date
Events
| Legal/Political | Colonel Robert E. Lee leads federal troops back to Harpers Ferry to support Virginia's execution of John Brown | 11/29/1859 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | Governor Wise takes over the Winchester and Potomac Railroad in preparation for the execution of John Brown | 11/29/1859 |
| Foreign | Jews in Hungary gain the right to marry without state permission | 11/29/1859 |
| Cultural | The fifteen year old Sarah Bernhardt enters the Paris Conservatory | 11/29/1859 |
Documents
| Newspaper | New York Herald, “Kit Carson Not Dead,” November 29, 1859 | 11/29/1859 |