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Daily Report

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Tuesday, August 20, 1861

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Birthdays

Absalom Baird, detail

Absalom Baird

37 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Madison Brown

51 years old today

Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt Lowe, detail

Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt Lowe

29 years old today

Gilman Marston, circa 1862, detail

Gilman Marston

50 years old today

Francis Redding Tillou Nichols, detail

Francis Redding Tillou Nichols

27 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

Newspaper
Chicago (IL) Tribune, “Secession Organs in the North,” August 20, 1861 08/20/1861

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