Birthdays

Lawrence O'Bryan Branch
Turns 40 on this date

George Ticknor Curtis
Turns 48 on this date

Henry Clay Dallam
Turns 32 on this date

Benjamin Drew
Turns 48 on this date

Charles A. Ebert
Turns 25 on this date

Bryan Grimes Jr.
Turns 32 on this date

James Alfred Inness
Turns 40 on this date

Philip Myers
Turns 30 on this date

George Ellis Pugh
Turns 38 on this date
Events
Battles/Soldiers | Commander of federal forces in Charleston, South Carolina asks again for area forts to be manned | 11/28/1860 |
Education/Culture | New York's Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men holds its eighteenth annual meeting | 11/28/1860 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | Texas Governor Sam Houston calls for all Southern governors to meet in conference at Austin | 11/28/1860 |
Documents
Newspaper | New York Herald, "General Scott Wanted At Washington," November 28, 1860 | 11/28/1860 |
Newspaper | New York Herald, “The Meeting of Congress,” November 28, 1860 | 11/28/1860 |