Daily Report

Monday, April 29, 1861

Birthdays

Henry Watkins Allen

41 years old today

Elbert Bland

38 years old today

Joseph Emory Broadwater

24 years old today

Ulysses Hobbs

29 years old today

Jacob Armel Kiester

29 years old today

Thomas Lyttleton Lyon

29 years old today

Robert E. Taylor

56 years old today

Augustus Baker Tizzard

41 years old today

Matthew Vassar

69 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	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "A New Difficulty," April 29, 1861	04/29/1861
Newspaper	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “What Can We Believe?,” April 29, 1861	04/29/1861
Newspaper	Chicago (IL) Tribune, “Washington Safe,” April 29, 1861	04/29/1861
Letter	William Willey to Waitman Willey, April 29, 1861	04/29/1861