Birthdays
Luke Pryor Blackburn
Turns 45 on this date
Marcus Lafayette Gordon
Turns 24 on this date
David Edgar Herold
Turns 19 on this date
Eli Long
Turns 24 on this date
Wesley Merritt
Turns 27 on this date
Robert Franklin Thompson
Turns 30 on this date
Israel Washburn Jr.
Turns 48 on this date
Events
| Lawmaking/Litigating | Philadelphia man arrested on a charge of inciting riot then freed on First Amendment grounds | 06/16/1861 |
Documents
| Newspaper | New York Times, “The Barbarians at Harper’s Ferry,” June 16, 1861 | 06/16/1861 |
| Letter | Thaddeus S. C. Lowe to Abraham Lincoln, June 16, 1861 | 06/16/1861 |