Birthdays

Hiram Pitt Bennet
Turns 35 on this date

Thomas Holliday Hicks
Turns 63 on this date

Charles Truman Hotchkiss
Turns 28 on this date

Henry Hotze
Turns 28 on this date

Henry Miles Moore
Turns 35 on this date

James Harrison Wilson
Turns 24 on this date
Events
Crime/Disasters | In north London, another railway excursion accident kills sixteen and injures 320 | 09/02/1861 |
Crime/Disasters | Loaded passenger/cargo ship burns in New York's North River | 09/02/1861 |
Documents
Letter | Abraham Lincoln to John Frémont, September 2, 1861 | 09/02/1861 |