Daily Report

Thursday, March 28, 1861

Birthdays

Theodore Freylinghuysen

74 years old today

Theodore Gallaudet

56 years old today

Nathan Kelsey Hall

51 years old today

William Luther Haller

35 years old today

Wade Hampton

43 years old today

Benjamin Markley Nyce

52 years old today

John Benedict Steele

47 years old today

Henry Dana Washburn

29 years old today

John Zug

43 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	Chicago (IL) Tribune, “Houston and the Rebels,” March 28, 1861	03/28/1861
Newspaper	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Virginia Still for the Union,” March 28, 1861	03/28/1861