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 |