Birthdays

Napoleon Bonaparte Buford
Turns 57 on this date

Salmon Portland Chase
Turns 56 on this date

Wesley Cochran
Turns 50 on this date

William Henry French
Turns 49 on this date

Joseph Eldridge Hamblin
Turns 36 on this date

Humphrey Marshall
Turns 52 on this date

Ernestine Louise Polowsky Rose
Turns 54 on this date

Edward Stout
Turns 43 on this date
Events
Personal | In New York's Bellevue Hospital, songwriter Stephen Foster dies suddenly, aged thirty-seven | 01/13/1864 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | In Richmond, Virginia, the First Confederate Congress is sitting in its fourth and final session |
11/18/1863 to 02/21/1864 |
Legal/Political | The first session of the 38th Congress is sitting in Washington DC from early January to early July, 1864 |
01/07/1864 to 07/03/1864 |