Daily Report

Thursday, July 28, 1859

Birthdays

William Edwin Baldwin

32 years old today

James Henry Lane CSA

26 years old today

Amos Forry Musselman

29 years old today

William Duncan Smith

34 years old today

Thomas Snowden Thomas

31 years old today

Washington Williams

60 years old today

Events

Legal/Political	Stephen A. Douglas serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1847 to 06/03/1861
Legal/Political	Elihu Washburne serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1853 to 03/06/1869
Legal/Political	Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873
Personal	Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio	10/26/1856 to 01/01/1862
Personal	Ozias Mather Hatch serves as Illinois Secretary of State	01/01/1857 to 01/31/1865

Documents

Newspaper	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Chances of Douglas,” July 28, 1859	07/28/1859
Letter	Abraham Lincoln to Samuel Galloway, July 28, 1859	07/28/1859