Daily Report

Wednesday, December 04, 1861

Birthdays

Henry Aurand

56 years old today

Portus Baxter

55 years old today

Charles Force Deems

41 years old today

William Wing Loring

43 years old today

Allen Thomas

31 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	New York Times, “The Slave Question,” December 4, 1861	12/04/1861
Military record	Brigadier General John W. Phelps, Proclamation to "The Loyal Citizens of the Southwest," December 4, 1861	12/04/1861
Executive record	William H. Seward to George B. McClellan, Contrabands in District of Columbia, December 4, 1861	12/04/1861