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Daily Report

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Tuesday, December 31, 1861

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Birthdays

George Gordon Meade, detail

George Gordon Meade

46 years old today

Jonathan Kenyon Peck, detail

Jonathan Kenyon Peck

37 years old today

Noah Pinkney, circa 1910, detail

Noah Pinkney

15 years old today

Theodore Medad Pomeroy, circa 1864, detail

Theodore Medad Pomeroy

37 years old today

Charles Shiels Wainwright, detail

Charles Shiels Wainwright

35 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Alfred Newton Weir

21 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
Abraham Lincoln to David Hunter, December 31, 1861 12/31/1861

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