Birthdays
Joseph Emerson Brown
Turns 41 on this date
Mary Ann Day Brown
Turns 45 on this date
Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Sherman
Turns 40 on this date
Edmund Strother Dargan
Turns 57 on this date
John Adams Halderman
Turns 29 on this date
Catesby Ap Roger Jones
Turns 41 on this date
Evander McNair
Turns 42 on this date
Horace Porter
Turns 25 on this date
Events
| Lawmaking/Litigating | In Philadelphia, former Secretary of War Cameron arrested and sued for false imprisonment | 04/15/1862 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | In Richmond, Virginia, the First Confederate Congress is meeting in its first session |
02/18/1862 to 04/21/1862 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The second session of the 37th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC |
12/03/1861 to 07/16/1862 |