Birthdays
Henry "Box" Brown
Turns 46 on this date
Horace Gray
Turns 33 on this date
John Henry Hubbard
Turns 57 on this date
William Henry Longsdorff
Turns 27 on this date
William Boyer Lupton
Turns 28 on this date
Lambdin Purdy Milligan
Turns 49 on this date
Charles Henry Mytinger
Turns 28 on this date
Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose
Turns 34 on this date
John Wesley Powell
Turns 27 on this date
Events
| Lawmaking/Litigating | In Washington, DC, the United States Senate is sitting in Special Session |
03/04/1861 to 03/28/1861 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The Virginia Convention on secession is meeting in Richmond |
02/13/1861 to 05/01/1861 |
Documents
| Newspaper | New York Herald, “Honor to Abolitionism Pure and Simple,” March 24, 1861 | 03/24/1861 |