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 |