Daily Report

Thursday, October 31, 1861

Birthdays

Adelbert Ames

26 years old today

Daniel Butterfield

30 years old today

Raleigh Edward Colston

36 years old today

Joseph Roswell Hawley

35 years old today

Alexander Williams Randall

61 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	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “The Final Blow to Liberty,” October 31, 1861	10/31/1861
Executive record	Henry Bellows to William Seward, Report on Condition of Confederate prisoners in New York City, October 31, 1861	10/31/1861
Military record	Winfield Scott to Simon Cameron, Request for Retirement, Washington, D.C., October 31, 1861	10/31/1861