Birthdays
John Courts Bagby
Turns 43 on this date
John Summerfield Battee
Turns 38 on this date
William Daniel
Turns 36 on this date
William Duffield Halbert
Turns 28 on this date
John Pegram
Turns 30 on this date
Henry Jarvis Raymond
Turns 42 on this date
Adam Jacoby Slemmer
Turns 34 on this date
John Milton Thayer
Turns 42 on this date
Events
| Crime/Disasters | After eight days, rescuers at the Hartley Colliery disaster find the remains of 199 men and boys | 01/24/1862 |
| Personal | American novelist and essayist Edith Wharton is born into a wealthy family in New York City | 01/24/1862 |
| 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 | The U.S. Senate votes 38-1 to confirm Noah Haynes Swayne of Ohio to the U.S. Supreme Court | 01/24/1862 |