Daily Report

Wednesday, May 23, 1860

Birthdays

Ambrose Everett Burnside, detail

Ambrose Everett Burnside

36 years old today

Henry Champion Deming, circa 1864, detail

Henry Champion Deming

45 years old today

No image yet available for this woman

Sarah Margaret Fuller

50 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Charles Hall

33 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

William Michael Harnsberger

25 years old today

African American Soldier - No photograph currently available

John Shirk

17 years old today

Eli Slifer, detail

Eli Slifer

42 years old today

Lewis Tappan, detail

Lewis Tappan

72 years old today

John Ogden Winner, detail

John Ogden Winner

34 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	Raleigh (NC) Standard, “The Chicago Convention,” May 23, 1860	05/23/1860
Newspaper	(Jackson) Mississippian, “Kansas in the Senate,” May 23, 1860	05/23/1860
Letter	Abraham Lincoln to George Ashmun, May 23, 1860	05/23/1860
Newspaper	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Lincoln as He Is,” May 23, 1860	05/23/1860
Newspaper	Raleigh (NC) Register, "The Giant Killer Reversing His Own Work," May 23, 1860	05/23/1860