Birthdays
Hamilton Fish
Turns 50 on this date
Graceanna Lewis
Turns 37 on this date
Francis Sutton Livingston
Turns 20 on this date
Benjamin Addison Massey
Turns 39 on this date
John Eugene Smith
Turns 42 on this date
Patrick Henry Taylor
Turns 20 on this date
Frederic Winthrop
Turns 19 on this date
Events
| Campaigns/Elections | Lincoln-Douglas campaign lasts from mid-June 1858 until January 1859 |
06/16/1858 to 01/05/1859 |
Documents
| Newspaper | New York Times, "Douglas and Lincoln on the Stump," August 3, 1858 | 08/03/1858 |
| Book | Recollection by Gustave Koerner, Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
07/10/1858 to 11/02/1858 |
| Letter | Thomas J. Pickett to Abraham Lincoln, August 3, 1858 | 08/03/1858 |