Daily Report

Birthdays

Gustavus Claggett Bird, detail
Gustavus Claggett Bird
1839—1899
Turns 23 on this date
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Charles Edward Maglaughlin, detail
Charles Edward Maglaughlin
1839—1874
Turns 23 on this date
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Peter Joseph Osterhaus, detail
Peter Joseph Osterhaus
1823—1917
Turns 39 on this date
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Joseph Jones Reynolds, detail
Joseph Jones Reynolds
1822—1899
Turns 40 on this date
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Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available
Levi M. Haverstick
1842—1881
Turns 20 on this date
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State of Mississippi
Ethelbert Barksdale
1824—1893
Turns 38 on this date

Events

Lawmaking/Litigating In Wheeling, the elected West Virginia convention is meeting to write a constitution for the new state 11/26/1861—02/18/1862
Lawmaking/Litigating The second session of the 37th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC 12/03/1861—07/16/1862
Battles/Soldiers In western Virginia, the Confederate "Stonewall Brigade" occupies Bath in Morgan County 01/04/1862