Daily Report

Saturday, April 20, 1861

Birthdays

William Armstrong

25 years old today

Alfred Holt Colquitt

37 years old today

John Gibbon

34 years old today

James Henry Loomis

19 years old today

Albert Gallatin Porter

37 years old today

Charles Debrille Poston

36 years old today

John Smith Preston

52 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	Savannah (GA) News, “Mails to the South to be Cut Off,” April 20, 1861	04/20/1861
Newspaper	New York Times, “The Position of Maryland,” April 20, 1861	04/20/1861
Letter	George W. Brown to John A. Andrew, April 20, 1861	04/20/1861
Executive record	Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin's Proclamation, April 20, 1861	04/20/1861