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 |