Birthdays
Louisa May Alcott
Turns 31 on this date
Andrew McElwain Criswell
Turns 39 on this date
Hamilton Rowan Gamble
Turns 65 on this date
Stephen Augustus Hurlbut
Turns 48 on this date
Thomas Edwin Greenfield Ransom
Turns 29 on this date
Louis Douglass Watkins
Turns 30 on this date
Robert William Wells
Turns 68 on this date
Events
| Lawmaking/Litigating | In Richmond, Virginia, the First Confederate Congress is sitting in its fourth and final session |
11/18/1863 to 02/21/1864 |
| Battles/Soldiers | In Tennessee, a massive dawn Confederate infantry attack on Knoxville's defenses fails completely | 11/29/1863 |
| Religion/Philosophy | The first Sunday of Advent in the Christian calendar | 11/29/1863 |