Birthdays

Richard Snowden Andrews
Turns 31 on this date

Daniel Decatur Emmett
Turns 46 on this date

Joseph Horace Lewis
Turns 37 on this date

Theodore Runyon
Turns 39 on this date

Robert Ewing Younger
Turns 8 on this date
Events
Business/Industry | In Philadelphia, the Cooper Shop Hospital opens | 10/29/1861 |
Battles/Soldiers | Largest U.S. Fleet ever assembled sails from Norfolk, Virginia to blockade and harass the Confederate coast | 10/29/1861 |
Documents
Newspaper | Chillicothe (OH) Scioto Gazette, “Disgraceful Fraud,” October 29, 1861 | 10/29/1861 |