Daily Report

Friday, April 21, 1865

Birthdays

Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, detail

Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter

56 years old today

Daniel Kaufman, in old age, detail

Daniel Kaufman

47 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Richard McAlister

46 years old today

Thomas Paschall Roberts, detail

Thomas Paschall Roberts

22 years old today

William Rufus Terrill, detail

William Rufus Terrill

31 years old today

Louis Trezevant Wigfall, detail

Louis Trezevant Wigfall

49 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
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	John Wentworth serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1865 to 03/03/1867

Documents

Diary	John Wilkes Booth, Diary entry, April 21, 1865, southern Maryland	04/21/1865
Speech	Colonel John Singleton Mosby to the men of his command, Salem, Virginia, April 21, 1865	04/21/1865