Daily Report

Monday, December 31, 1860

Birthdays

George Gordon Meade, detail

George Gordon Meade

45 years old today

Jonathan Kenyon Peck, detail

Jonathan Kenyon Peck

36 years old today

Noah Pinkney, circa 1910, detail

Noah Pinkney

14 years old today

Theodore Medad Pomeroy, circa 1864, detail

Theodore Medad Pomeroy

36 years old today

Charles Shiels Wainwright, detail

Charles Shiels Wainwright

34 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Alfred Newton Weir

20 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	Boston (MA) Herald, "Disunion," December 31, 1860	12/31/1860
Newspaper	New York Times, “Flight of a Great Criminal,” December 31, 1860	12/31/1860
Letter	Thomas Cadwallerder to Abraham Lincoln, December 31, 1860	12/31/1860
Newspaper	Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, “Fort Sumter,” December 31, 1860	12/31/1860