Birthdays
Chapman Vinson Brooks
Turns 41 on this date
George Walker Crawford
Turns 65 on this date
William Lambert Gooding
Turns 12 on this date
Josiah Bushnell Grinnell
Turns 42 on this date
Paul Octave Hébert
Turns 45 on this date
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Turns 40 on this date
David James Holmes
Turns 33 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 |
| Personal | In Washington D.C., Union officer and Irish Nationalist leader Michael Corcoran dies in a fall | 12/22/1863 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The first session of the 38th Congress adjourns for a two-week holiday recess | 12/22/1863 |