Birthdays
Joseph Emerson Brown
Turns 38 on this date
Mary Ann Day Brown
Turns 42 on this date
Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Sherman
Turns 37 on this date
Edmund Strother Dargan
Turns 54 on this date
John Adams Halderman
Turns 26 on this date
Catesby Ap Roger Jones
Turns 38 on this date
Evander McNair
Turns 39 on this date
Horace Porter
Turns 22 on this date
Events
| Legal/Political | Oberlin-Wellington rescuer Simeon Bushnell is found guilty in a Cleveland federal court | 04/15/1859 |
| Foreign | Oxford wins the traditional University Boat Race on the Thames when the Cambridge boat sinks | 04/15/1859 |
| Foreign | The British court-martial Tatya Tope, one of the last leaders of the Indian Rebellion to be captured | 04/15/1859 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The murder trial of Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York continues in Washington D.C. |
04/11/1859 to 04/16/1859 |
Documents
| Newspaper | Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Correspondence of the Mercury," April 15, 1859 | 04/15/1859 |