Birthdays
Louisa May Alcott
Turns 29 on this date
Andrew McElwain Criswell
Turns 37 on this date
Hamilton Rowan Gamble
Turns 63 on this date
Stephen Augustus Hurlbut
Turns 46 on this date
William Ballard Preston
Turns 56 on this date
Thomas Edwin Greenfield Ransom
Turns 27 on this date
Louis Douglass Watkins
Turns 28 on this date
Robert William Wells
Turns 66 on this date
Events
| Lawmaking/Litigating | In Wheeling, the elected West Virginia convention is meeting to write a constitution for the new state |
11/26/1861 to 02/18/1862 |
| US/the World | Rear Admiral Louis-Adolph Bonard succeeds Vice Admiral Charmer as head of French forces in Vietnam | 11/29/1861 |
| Battles/Soldiers | Union cavalry capture sixteen Californians under Daniel Showalter making for Confederate Arizona | 11/29/1861 |