Birthdays

Thomas Carroll Bailey
Turns 27 on this date

Clinton Levering Cobb
Turns 16 on this date

Percival Drayton
Turns 46 on this date

Louis Frederick Eichelberger
Turns 55 on this date

Francis Brett Harte
Turns 22 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
Letter | B. Lewis to Abraham Lincoln, August 25, 1858 | 08/25/1858 |
Newspaper | Quincy (IL) Whig, "Lincoln and Douglas," August 25, 1858 | 08/25/1858 |
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 |
Letter | Schuyler Colfax to Abraham Lincoln, August 25, 1858 | 08/25/1858 |
Letter | Thomas Garrett to William Still, August 25, 1858 | 08/25/1858 |