Birthdays

Thomas Almond Ashby
Turns 11 on this date

John Andrew Jackson Creswell
Turns 31 on this date

Jesse Johnson Finley
Turns 47 on this date

Isham Nichols Haynie
Turns 35 on this date

Henry Lee Higginson
Turns 25 on this date

Henry A. Longsdorf
Turns 30 on this date

Benjamin Stone Roberts
Turns 49 on this date

Franz Sigel
Turns 35 on this date
Events
Legal/Political | All defendants in the Columbus Jones kidnapping case acquitted in Massachusetts | 11/18/1859 |
Crime/Disasters | Freight train derails on a bridge in Indiana and goes into the river killing two crewmen | 11/18/1859 |
Battles/Soldiers | Newspaper feud in Nashville over Harpers Ferry results in murder on the street | 11/18/1859 |
Documents
Newspaper | Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "A Recoil of the Gun," November 18, 1859 | 11/18/1859 |
Newspaper | Richmond (VA) Dispatch, “Crime Among Fugitive Negroes,” November 18, 1859 | 11/18/1859 |