Birthdays

James Crook

Turns 25 on this date

Turns 31 on this date

Turns 37 on this date

Turns 22 on this date

Turns 57 on this date

Battles/Soldiers	The Confederate commerce raider Nashville runs the blockade at Charleston and heads for the North Atlantic	10/26/1861
Business/Industry	Two days after the first coast to coast telegraph message the Pony Express ceases operations	10/26/1861

Military record	Gen. B. F. Kelley to the People of Hampshire County, Virginia, October 26, 1861	10/26/1861
Judicial record	George W. Phillips, Assistant U.S. Marshall, to Judges of U.S. Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, October 26, 1861	10/26/1861