Daily Report

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Birthdays

William Daily Clayton

22 years old today

Daniel Gibbons

85 years old today

Jonathan Perry Harrison

31 years old today

Anthony Kennedy

50 years old today

Samuel Alexander Mudd

27 years old today

Robert Barnwell Rhett

60 years old today

James Sewall Thomas

29 years old today

William Wright

72 years old today

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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

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Documents

Letter	John Thompson to William Still, December 21, 1860	12/21/1860
Diary	Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut, December 21, 1860	12/21/1860
Newspaper	Newark (OH) Advocate, "Suffering in New York," December 21, 1860	12/21/1860