Daily Report

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Birthdays

Alexander Sandor Asboth

55 years old today

George Dashiell Bayard

30 years old today

Jesse David Bright

53 years old today

John Mercer Brooke

39 years old today

Thomas Pleasant Dockery

32 years old today

Arnold Elzey

49 years old today

Charles Griffin

40 years old today

George Dennison Prentice

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

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Documents

Executive record	Andrew Johnson, "Message to Congress respecting the condition of affairs in the Southern States," December 18, 1865	12/18/1865
Letter	Ulysses S. Grant to Andrew Johnson, December 18, 1865, Washington, DC	12/18/1865
Executive record	William Henry Seward, Announcement of the Ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, December 18, 1865, Washington, DC	12/18/1865