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 |