Birthdays

Thomas Lee Broun
Turns 42 on this date

James Edmund Bryant
Turns 17 on this date

Augustus Louis Chetlain
Turns 41 on this date

William Henry Miles
Turns 37 on this date

Emanuel H. Reigart
Turns 31 on this date

John Guier Scott
Turns 46 on this date
Events
Crime/Disasters | Forty passengers and crew drown when a steamer wrecks off the coast of North Carolina | 12/26/1865 |
Legal/Political | The first session of the 39th Congress is in a two-week holiday recess until January 5, 1866 |
12/22/1865 to 01/04/1866 |