Birthdays

William Burton
Turns 73 on this date

John Francis Chaplain
Turns 38 on this date

Thomas Turpin Crittenden
Turns 37 on this date

William Howard Day
Turns 37 on this date

William Pitt Fessenden
Turns 56 on this date

James Hamilton
Turns 69 on this date

John Winfield Scott Kough
Turns 25 on this date

Francis Richard Lubbock
Turns 47 on this date

Isaac Murphy
Turns 59 on this date
Events
Battles/Soldiers | In Atlanta, the captured Union raiders from the failed attack on the Georgia rail system stage a mass escape | 10/16/1862 |