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Daily Report

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Monday, August 05, 1861

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Birthdays

James Dixon, detail

James Dixon

47 years old today

Joseph Gordon Hamblen, detail

Joseph Gordon Hamblen

17 years old today

James Bedell McKean, circa 1860, detail

James Bedell McKean

40 years old today

Carnot Posey, detail

Carnot Posey

43 years old today

Duke Slavens, detail

Duke Slavens

21 years old today

Thomas Weston Tipton, detail

Thomas Weston Tipton

44 years old today

Erastus Wentworth, detail

Erastus Wentworth

48 years old today

Events

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
Legal/Political
Andrew Gregg Curtin serves as Governor of Pennslyvania 01/15/1861 to 01/15/1867

Documents

Letter
Gideon Welles to Abraham Lincoln, August 5, 1861 08/05/1861
Newspaper
Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Loss of the Enemy,” August 5, 1861 08/05/1861

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