A crowd of two thousand gathered in Union Park in New York City at an evening Lincoln rally aimed at previous Whig and American Party voters. Horace Greeley, reminding the crowd Abraham Lincoln was an old Whig, spoke at length along with several well known local Whig and American politicians. (By John Osborne)
James Whistler had been a cadet at West Point under Superintendent Colonel Robert E. Lee. Lee had expelled him in 1854 for persistent infractions and he had left for Europe to begin his career as an artist. From his post in San Antonio, Texas, Lee sent his wife a newspaper clipping describing "little Jimmy Whistler's" successful 1860 exhibition, saying "I wish indeed he may succeed in his career. He certainly has talent, if he could acquire application." (By John Osborne)