Birthdays
John Penn Brock
Turns 38 on this date
Adele Cutts Douglas
Turns 26 on this date
Hinton Rowan Helper
Turns 32 on this date
Robert Latimer McCook
Turns 34 on this date
James Clay Rice
Turns 33 on this date
C. C. Vaughn
Turns 15 on this date
Thomas Rees Vickroy
Turns 28 on this date
Events
| 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 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The second session of the 37th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC |
12/03/1861 to 07/16/1862 |
| Education/Culture | Union Colonel James A. Mulligan, hero of the Battle of Lexington, speaks for a Catholic charity in Philadelphia | 12/27/1861 |