Birthdays

William Nelson Rector Beall
Turns 37 on this date

Jesse Spinner Burks
Turns 39 on this date

Eugene Asa Carr
Turns 32 on this date

Marvin Emory Clark
Turns 29 on this date

George Bibb Crittenden
Turns 50 on this date

Neal S. Dow
Turns 58 on this date

John Echols
Turns 39 on this date

Thomas Dawes Eliot
Turns 54 on this date

Samuel Galloway
Turns 51 on this date
Events
Lawmaking/Litigating | In Richmond, Virginia, the First Confederate Congress is meeting in its first session |
02/18/1862 to 04/21/1862 |
US/the World | In Vietnam, French forces under Rear Admiral Louis-Adolph Bonard besiege and capture My Tho |
03/20/1862 to 03/23/1862 |
Battles/Soldiers | The new steam sloop Juniata is launched at the Philadelphia Naval Yard | 03/20/1862 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | The second session of the 37th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC |
12/03/1861 to 07/16/1862 |