Birthdays

Thomas James Churchill
Turns 39 on this date

Robert Lowry
Turns 33 on this date

William Chambers Maloy
Turns 31 on this date

John Alexander Martin
Turns 24 on this date

John McCloskey
Turns 53 on this date

William Henry Penrose
Turns 31 on this date

George Wythe Randolph
Turns 45 on this date
Events
Lawmaking/Litigating | In Richmond, Virginia, the First Confederate Congress is sitting in its third session |
01/12/1863 to 05/01/1863 |
Legal/Political | Justice Robert Grier issues opinion in the Prize Cases | 03/10/1863 |