Birthdays
Benjamin Arbogast
Turns 38 on this date
Edwin Thomas Booth
Turns 30 on this date
John Adolphus Dahlgren
Turns 54 on this date
Theophilus Hunter Holmes
Turns 59 on this date
Joseph Hooker
Turns 49 on this date
Wesley Melick
Turns 32 on this date
Leonard Myers
Turns 36 on this date
John Louis O'Sullivan
Turns 50 on this date
John Wolcott Phelps
Turns 50 on this date
Events
| Crime/Disasters | Near Island 16 in the Mississippi, a riverboat is destroyed by fire and twenty-five lives lost | 11/13/1863 |
Documents
| Newspaper | Chicago (IL) Tribune, “From Gettysburg,” November 13, 1863 | 11/13/1863 |