Daily Report

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Birthdays

Henry Bowen Anthony

46 years old today

Simon Bolivar Buckner

38 years old today

James Smith Colwell

48 years old today

John Egbert Farnum

37 years old today

Jeremiah Haralson

15 years old today

James Wilson Troxell

30 years old today

James Williams

36 years old today

Richard Wootton

26 years old today

Theodore George Wormley

35 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

Newspaper	New York Times, “Negro Regiments to be Raised,” April 1, 1861	04/01/1861
Letter	Abraham Lincoln to William Seward, April 1, 1861	04/01/1861