Birthdays
Charles Henry Davis
Turns 58 on this date
Henry Wager Halleck
Turns 50 on this date
Robert Roberts Hitt
Turns 31 on this date
Thomas Edwin Massey
Turns 43 on this date
William Alexander Richardson
Turns 54 on this date
James Phillip Sims
Turns 28 on this date
John Palmer Usher
Turns 49 on this date
James David Watters
Turns 31 on this date
Events
| Crime/Disasters | A brand-new British blockade runner sinks in a storm the day she sails from Liverpool, drowning forty-seven people | 01/16/1865 |
| Legal/Political | Second session of the 38th Congress sitting in Washington DC from early January to early March, 1865 |
01/07/1865 to 03/02/1865 |