Birthdays
Lucien Bonaparte Caswell
Turns 34 on this date
Ebenezer Dumont
Turns 47 on this date
Frances Anne Kemble
Turns 52 on this date
Ralph Phillips Lowe
Turns 56 on this date
Hugh Weedon Mercer
Turns 53 on this date
John Leake Newbold Stratton
Turns 44 on this date
Events
| US/the World | In Liverpool, the news of the interception and seizure of Mason and Slidell reaches England | 11/27/1861 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | In Wheeling, the elected West Virginia convention is meeting to write a constitution for the new state |
11/26/1861 to 02/18/1862 |
Documents
| Military record | Brigadier-General Charles F. Smith, General Orders No. 36, Paducah, Kentucky, November 27, 1861 | 11/27/1861 |
| Military record | Colonel George D. Bayard, First Pennsylvania Cavalry, Report on Expedition to Dranesville, Virginia, November 27, 1861 | 11/27/1861 |
| Military record | Major-General George McClellan, General Orders No. 48 on Chaplains and the Army, November 27, 1861 | 11/27/1861 |