Daily Report

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Birthdays

William Smith Hanger Baylor

34 years old today

Francis Martin Drexell

73 years old today

Charles Godfrey Gunther

43 years old today

Alexander Kelly

25 years old today

William Rufus Devane King

79 years old today

Gershom Mott

43 years old today

Francis Wilkinson Pickens

58 years old today

Frederick Charles Salomon

39 years old today

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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
Legal/Political	Andrew Gregg Curtin serves as Governor of Pennslyvania	01/15/1861 to 01/15/1867
Personal	John W. Forney serves as secretary of the United States Senate	07/15/1861 to 06/04/1868
Legal/Political	Burton Chauncey Cook serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1865 to 03/03/1871

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Documents

Newspaper	Editorial, "The Next Step," New York Times, April 7, 1865	04/07/1865
Letter	Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, April 7, 1865	04/07/1865
Military record	Colonel Peter Pineo to Headquarters, Department of the South, Hilton Head, South Carolina, April 7, 1865	04/07/1865