Birthdays

Henry Ward Beecher
Turns 52 on this date

John Archibald Campbell
Turns 54 on this date

David Ramsay Clendenin
Turns 35 on this date

Birkett Davenport Fry
Turns 43 on this date

Henry Rootes Jackson
Turns 45 on this date

William Radford
Turns 51 on this date
Events
Personal | In Auburn, New York, Francis Adeline Seward, wife of the Secretary of State William Seward, is laid to rest | 06/24/1865 |
Crime/Disasters | In Philadelphia, Fourth of July fireworks put on a display a week early when a merchant's establishment burns | 06/24/1865 |
Crime/Disasters | In Washington's Old Penitentiary, final arguments are being made in the Lincoln conspiracy trial |
06/15/1865 to 06/28/1865 |
Education/Culture | The Great North-Western Sanitary Fair closes in Chicago, Illinois having raised $270,000 | 06/24/1865 |
Documents
Speech | William T. Sherman, "Remarks," Lancaster, Ohio, June 24, 1865 | 06/24/1865 |