Birthdays

Joseph Randolph Cockerill
Turns 47 on this date

Isaac Cole
Turns 41 on this date

Augustus Caesar Dodge
Turns 53 on this date

Napoleon Bonaparte Giddings
Turns 49 on this date

Aaron Harding
Turns 60 on this date
William Shorten Henerey
Turns 38 on this date

William Brown McIlvaine
Turns 58 on this date
Shadrach Minkins
Turns 51 on this date
William Winter Payne
Turns 58 on this date
Events
Personal | In Philadelphia, wealthy citizens gift a house to the Grant family as reward for the commanding general's war service | 01/02/1865 |
Legal/Political | The second session of the 38th Congress is in a two-week holiday recess until January 6, 1865 |
12/23/1864 to 01/05/1865 |