Birthdays
Joseph Randolph Cockerill
Turns 46 on this date
Isaac Cole
Turns 40 on this date
Augustus Caesar Dodge
Turns 52 on this date
Napoleon Bonaparte Giddings
Turns 48 on this date
Aaron Harding
Turns 59 on this date
William Shorten Henerey
Turns 37 on this date
William Brown McIlvaine
Turns 57 on this date
Shadrach Minkins
Turns 50 on this date
William Winter Payne
Turns 57 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 |
| Crime/Disasters | New York press reports the narrow escape of a loaded immigrant ship in an Atlantic storm | 01/02/1864 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The first session of the 38th Congress is in a two-week holiday recess until January 6, 1864 |
12/23/1863 to 01/05/1864 |