Birthdays

Jonathan E. Bulkeley
Turns 38 on this date

William Crutchfield
Turns 37 on this date

Charles Smith Hamilton
Turns 39 on this date

Castner Hanway
Turns 40 on this date

John Brooks Henderson
Turns 35 on this date

Michael Kelly Lawler
Turns 47 on this date

Manton Marble
Turns 26 on this date

Francis Benjamin Sellers
Turns 20 on this date
Events
Education/Culture | In Hamburg, Germany, Brahms' Quartet in G Minor debuts, with Clara Schumann at the piano | 11/16/1861 |
Science/Technology | The new 730-ton side wheel gunboat U.S.S. Miami is launched at the Philadelphia Navy Yard | 11/16/1861 |
Religion/Philosophy | The United States Christian Commission is set up at a conference in New York City | 11/16/1861 |
Documents
Military record | Charles Wilkes, USN to Gideon Welles, Final Report on the seizure of Mason and Slidell, November 16, 1861 | 11/16/1861 |