Birthdays
Frederick William Benteen
Turns 24 on this date
Hiram Gregory Berry
Turns 34 on this date
Thomas Fenwick Drayton
Turns 50 on this date
John Day Easter
Turns 28 on this date
George Whitefield John
Turns 19 on this date
Edmund Ayres Maginniss
Turns 26 on this date
George Earl Maney
Turns 32 on this date
John Newton
Turns 36 on this date
Theodore Parker
Turns 48 on this date
Events
| Campaigns/Elections | Lincoln-Douglas campaign lasts from mid-June 1858 until January 1859 |
06/16/1858 to 01/05/1859 |
| Crime/Disasters | Passenger ship bound for Australia catches fire in the South Atlantic, six hundred miles from land |
08/23/1858 to 08/24/1858 |
Documents
| Letter | Lyman Trumbull to Abraham Lincoln, August 24, 1858 | 08/24/1858 |
| Newspaper | Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, "Lincoln and Douglas at Ottawa," August 24, 1858 | 08/24/1858 |
| Book | Recollection by Gustave Koerner, Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
07/10/1858 to 11/02/1858 |
| Book | Recollection by John M. Palmer, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 |
08/21/1858 to 10/15/1858 |