Birthdays

Elijah Babbitt
Turns 65 on this date

Luigi Palma di Cesnola
Turns 28 on this date

Thomas Corwin
Turns 66 on this date

Alvan Cullem Gillem
Turns 30 on this date

Matthew Henry Henderson
Turns 52 on this date

Henry C. Hitner
Turns 18 on this date

James Blair Steedman
Turns 43 on this date

Lemuel Todd
Turns 43 on this date
Events
Campaigns/Elections | From Missouri, Carl Schurz writes to his wife of his success in winning German-born voters to the Republican side | 07/29/1860 |
Education/Culture | In Little Rock, Arkansas, feuding newspaper editor "plays the race card" against his part Cherokee rival | 07/29/1860 |
Documents
Newspaper | New York Herald, “Alleged Fugitive Slave Case in Philadelphia,” July 29, 1860 | 07/29/1860 |