Birthdays

Theodore Washington Brevard
Turns 26 on this date

James Harlan
Turns 41 on this date

Benjamin Grubb Humphreys
Turns 53 on this date

John Auchincloss Inglis
Turns 48 on this date

John Edward McCahan
Turns 29 on this date

John McKinney
Turns 64 on this date

Samuel James Powell
Turns 37 on this date
Events
US/the World | Queen Victoria makes her third visit to Ireland |
08/22/1861 to 08/29/1861 |
US/the World | The King of the Hawaiian Islands announces his kingdom's neutrality in the American War | 08/26/1861 |
Battles/Soldiers | Virginia regiments surround, defeat, and scatter the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Cross Lanes, Virginia | 08/26/1861 |
Documents
Newspaper | Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Impatience,” August 26, 1861 | 08/26/1861 |