Birthdays

Elias Cornelius Boudinot
Turns 31 on this date
John Mercer Brockenbrough
Turns 36 on this date

Thomas Nelson Conrad
Turns 29 on this date

Samuel Alfred Foot
Turns 76 on this date

George Washington LeCato
Turns 24 on this date

Robert Todd Lincoln
Turns 23 on this date

Robert McClelland
Turns 59 on this date
Events
Crime/Disasters | In London, cholera continues its European assault, killing five thousand in two weeks. |
07/29/1866 to 08/04/1866 |
Personal | John Ross, for thirty-eight years Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, dies in Washington, D.C. | 08/01/1866 |
US/the World | On the island of Crete, the local population rises in revolt against the Turkish Empire. | 08/01/1866 |
Documents
Military record | Philip H. Sheridan to Ulysses S. Grant, New Orleans, August 1, 1866. | 08/01/1866 |