Birthdays

Thomas Almond Ashby
Turns 13 on this date

John Andrew Jackson Creswell
Turns 33 on this date

Jesse Johnson Finley
Turns 49 on this date

Isham Nichols Haynie
Turns 37 on this date

Henry Lee Higginson
Turns 27 on this date

Henry A. Longsdorf
Turns 32 on this date

Benjamin Stone Roberts
Turns 51 on this date

Franz Sigel
Turns 37 on this date
Events
Battles/Soldiers | Confederate Brigadier-General Henry H. Sibley marches from San Antonio to launch his invasion of New Mexico | 11/18/1861 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | In Union-occupied North Carolina, loyalists meet in convention, rescind secession, and name a new governor | 11/18/1861 |
Documents
Letter | Brigadier General Thomas F. Drayton, CSA to Governor Francis W. Pickens, November 18, 1861 | 11/18/1861 |
Letter | John S. Phelps to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, November 18, 1861 | 11/18/1861 |
Executive record | President Jefferson Davis, Message to the Confederate Congress, November 18, 1861 | 11/18/1861 |