Birthdays

Samuel Riley Bird
Turns 32 on this date

Howell Cobb
Turns 45 on this date

William Hemsley Emory
Turns 49 on this date

Thomas Andrews Hendricks
Turns 41 on this date

James Kennedy Moorhead
Turns 54 on this date

Henry Bascom Ridgaway
Turns 30 on this date

Albert Ritchie
Turns 26 on this date

Peter Godwin Van Winkle
Turns 52 on this date
Events
Crime/Disasters | Almost three hundred drown on Lake Michigan in an excursion steamer collision | 09/07/1860 |
Education/Culture | Anna Mary Robertson, the future artist "Grandma Moses," is born in Greenwich, New York | 09/07/1860 |
Education/Culture | In baseball, Union and Excelsior play one of the lowest scoring games on record, final score 7-4 | 09/07/1860 |
US/the World | In Italy, Garibaldi enters Naples in triumph | 09/07/1860 |
Campaigns/Elections | Senator Douglas's campaign swing reaches Harrisburg, Pennsylvania | 09/07/1860 |
US/the World | The Prince of Wales' tour moves on to Toronto, capital of Upper Canada |
09/07/1860 to 09/12/1860 |
Documents
Letter | Letter from William Tecumseh Sherman to D. F. Boyd, September 7, 1860 | 09/07/1860 |
Newspaper | New York Herald, “Massachusetts Thoroughly Abolitionized,” September 7, 1860 | 09/07/1860 |