Birthdays

Napoleon Bonaparte Buford
Turns 55 on this date

Salmon Portland Chase
Turns 54 on this date

Wesley Cochran
Turns 48 on this date

William Henry French
Turns 47 on this date

Joseph Eldridge Hamblin
Turns 34 on this date

Humphrey Marshall
Turns 50 on this date

Ernestine Louise Polowsky Rose
Turns 52 on this date

Edward Stout
Turns 41 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 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | The second session of the 37th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC |
12/03/1861 to 07/16/1862 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee finds the evidence insufficient to expel Indiana Senator Jesse Bright | 01/13/1862 |
Documents
Letter | Abraham Lincoln to Don Carlos Buell, January 13, 1862 | 01/13/1862 |