Daily Report

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Birthdays

John Wayne Ashmead

55 years old today

Alexander Robinson Boteler

46 years old today

Charles Mifflin Boyd

35 years old today

Martin Robinson Delany

49 years old today

William Henry Seward

60 years old today

Edmund Kirby Smith

37 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	Ripley (OH) Bee, “Letter from a Union man in Kentucky,” May 16, 1861	05/16/1861
Letter	Montgomery Blair to Abraham Lincoln, May 16, 1861	05/16/1861
Newspaper	New York Times, “The Reward of Treason,” May 16, 1861	05/16/1861
Newspaper	Chicago (IL) Tribune, “Help From England,” May 16, 1861	05/16/1861