Birthdays
Olympia Brown
Turns 29 on this date
Henry Eaton Coleman
Turns 27 on this date
William Preston Johnston
Turns 33 on this date
Augustus Valentine Kautz
Turns 36 on this date
John Doby Kennedy
Turns 24 on this date
Joseph Brevard Kershaw
Turns 42 on this date
George Fiske Round
Turns 24 on this date
Edmund Ruffin
Turns 70 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 |
| 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 |