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 |