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 |