Birthdays

James Edward Harrison

Turns 50 on this date

Personal	Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Philadelphia before dawn and moves across New Jersey	04/24/1865
US/the World	In the French coast resort of Nice, the heir to the Russian Empire dies of meningitis, aged twenty-one	04/24/1865
Battles/Soldiers	On the Mississippi, a Confederate warship makes a bold breakout and almost reaches the open sea	04/23/1865 to 04/24/1865
Lawmaking/Litigating	President Johnson sets May 25th as a day of "special humiliation and prayer" for Abraham Lincoln	04/24/1865
Personal	President Lincoln's remains arrive in New York City to lay in state at City Hall	04/24/1865

Speech	John Curtiss Underwood, Statement on behalf of Southern Refugees to President Andrew Johnson, Washington, D.C.	04/24/1865
Speech	President Andrew Johnson, Reply to a Delegation of Southern Refugees, Washington D.C., April 24, 1865	04/24/1865