Birthdays

James Barton
Turns 25 on this date

Frederick P. Beidler
Turns 37 on this date

James Alexander Brandt
Turns 26 on this date

Levi Coffin
Turns 72 on this date

Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
Turns 19 on this date

Isaac Dillon
Turns 38 on this date

Dudley McIver Dubose
Turns 27 on this date

Theodore Stanford Garnett
Turns 17 on this date
Events
Lawmaking/Litigating | At Tahlequah in Indian Territory, the Cherokee Nation publishes its Declaration of Causes for alliance with the South | 10/28/1861 |
Documents
Military record | USN Lieutenant A. Murray reports on a night raid up the Chincoteague Inlet, Virginia, October 28, 1861 | 10/28/1861 |