Birthdays

Luke Pryor Blackburn
Turns 50 on this date

Marcus Lafayette Gordon
Turns 29 on this date

Eli Long
Turns 29 on this date

Wesley Merritt
Turns 32 on this date

Robert Franklin Thompson
Turns 35 on this date

Israel Washburn Jr.
Turns 53 on this date
Events
Personal | New York U.S. Congressman James Humphrey dies suddenly at his home in Brooklyn. | 06/16/1866 |
Legal/Political | The first session of the 39th Congress is sitting in Washington DC from early January to late July, 1866 |
01/07/1866 to 07/27/1866 |
Documents
Legislative record | Conclusions, Majority Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, U.S. Congress, June 16, 1866 | 06/16/1866 |