Birthdays
Richard Snowden Andrews
Turns 29 on this date
Daniel Decatur Emmett
Turns 44 on this date
Joseph Horace Lewis
Turns 35 on this date
William Wallace Merrick
Turns 22 on this date
Theodore Runyon
Turns 37 on this date
Robert Ewing Younger
Turns 6 on this date
Events
| Lawmaking/Litigating | John Brown stands trial in Charlestown, Virginia |
10/27/1859 to 10/31/1859 |
| Slavery/Abolition | Mob destroys the office of Abolitionist newspaper in Newport, Kentucky |
10/28/1859 to 10/29/1859 |
Documents
| Newspaper | Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “Capt. Cook – Wrong Man Arrested,” October 29, 1859 | 10/29/1859 |
| Newspaper | Lawrence (KS) Herald of Freedom, “Old John Brown,” October 29, 1859 | 10/29/1859 |
| Letter | William T. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, October 29, 1859 | 10/29/1859 |