Daily Report

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Birthdays

Jeremiah Goldsmith Anderson

28 years old today

Henry Washington Benham

48 years old today

John Curtis Caldwell

28 years old today

John Bullock Clark Sr.

59 years old today

Philip St. George Cocke

52 years old today

Charles Collins

48 years old today

Mifflin Wistar Gibbs

33 years old today

John Sedgwick Cleveland Robinson

44 years old today

Dauphin Adolphus Thompson

23 years old today

Joseph Albert Wright

51 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	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Abolition Anticipations,” April 17, 1861	04/17/1861
Legislative record	The Virginia Ordinance of Secession, April 17, 1861	04/17/1861
Executive record	Jefferson Davis, Proclamation, April 17, 1861	04/17/1861
Diary	Entry by Josie Underwood, April 17, 1861	04/17/1861
Diary	Entry by George Templeton Strong, April 17, 1861	04/17/1861