Birthdays

Lemuel Jackson Bowden
Turns 47 on this date

Charles Henry Davis
Turns 55 on this date

Henry Wager Halleck
Turns 47 on this date

Robert Roberts Hitt
Turns 28 on this date

Thomas Edwin Massey
Turns 40 on this date

William Alexander Richardson
Turns 51 on this date

James Phillip Sims
Turns 25 on this date

John Palmer Usher
Turns 46 on this date

James David Watters
Turns 28 on this date
Events
Crime/Disasters | In northern England, salmon poachers kill a "water-watcher" | 01/16/1862 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | In Wheeling, the elected West Virginia convention is meeting to write a constitution for the new state |
11/26/1861 to 02/18/1862 |
Crime/Disasters | The Hartley Colliery disaster in north-east England kills more than two hundred British coal miners | 01/16/1862 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | The second session of the 37th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC |
12/03/1861 to 07/16/1862 |
Documents
Military record | Colonel James A. Garfield to the Citizens of the Big Sandy Valley, Kentucky, January 16, 1862 | 01/16/1862 |