Following the failed Paraguayan counterattack at the Battle of Estero Bellaco, the Brazilian, Argentine, and Uruguayan invasion force continued their march into Paraguay and reached Tuyutí in the southwest corner of the South American nation.  Paraguayan president Francisco López ordered another suprise attack and in what might be the bloodiest encounter ever fought in South America were completely defeated before the Allied entrenchments supported with extensive artillery positions.  Estimated Paraguayan casualties numbered around 13,000, or more than half their force, with 6,000 of these dead.  The defenders lost around a thousand killed.   (By John Osborne)  

Two weeks earlier, a combined Brazilian, Argentine, and Uruguayan army had crossed into Paraguay, driving the defenders back into set positions.  On this day, the Paraguayans mounted a 4,500 men heavy counter-attack, inflicting heavy casualties and captured the Allied artillery before reinforcements arrived. The added Allied troops drove back the attack and the Battle of Estero Bellaco is considered an Allied victory.  (By John Osborne)  

In the Oregon state elections, Republican George L. Woods defeated Democrat James Kelly in a tight race decided by 327 votes in a total 20,239 ballots cast. Oregon's single at-large seat in the United States Congress was also decided at election with a small majority going to the Republican candidate, Rufus Mallory of Salem. In the legislative results, Republicans held the state senate fourteen seats to eight and by a razor-thin majority of twenty-four to twenty-three in the lower house.  (By John Osborne)

In state and federal elections in Ohio, Republicans retained dominant power in both houses of the Ohio Legislature and returned all but two of the state's nineteen representatives to the U.S. Congress as Republicans.  The majority in the state senate was twenty-five to twelve and in the state house sixty-nine to thirty-six. (John Osborne) 

Born in British Guiana, Henry Vethake had graduated from Columbia and then taught mathematics at Queen's College and at Princeton before becoming professor of mathematics at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1821.  In addition to mathematics, Vethake lectured in "Political Economy," among the very first in the United States to do so and that title was added to his appointment in 1826.  He left Dickinson after a decade to return to Princeton and later served an extended tenure as provost of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where he died at home, aged seventy-five.  (By John Osborne)

Augustus Dickens was the younger brother of the famous British novelist and can be considered the "black sheep" of the family. Reportedly he was the original "Boz," the nickname the family game him as a child. He had deserted his blind wife in England and moved to the United States with another woman, with whom he later had three children. He located in Illinois where he was working for the Illinois Central Railroad when he died of tuberculosis. He was thirty-nine years old.  (By John Osborne)

William Ward Orme was a prominent Bloomington, Illinois lawyer, partner in practice to Leonard Swett, and friend of future Supreme Court Justice David Davis. He had left his practice to serve in the Union Army during the Civil War and rose to the rank of brevet brigadier-general. Following the Vicksburg Campaign, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and forced to leave the Army for a federal post with the U.S. Treasury.  His health deteriorated rapidly, however, and he died at his home in Burlington.  He was thirty-four years old.  (By John Osborne)

Moses Fowler Odell was a prominent Democratic member of the Thirty-Seventh and Thirty-Eighth Congresses during the Civil War, representing the second and third districts of New York.  He sat on both the Joint Committee of the Conduct of the War and the Military Affairs Committee, bodies that Republicans dominated.  He became a warm friend to President Lincoln during that time. Following the war, he was appointed to the Port of New York but died of cancer the year after.  He was forty-eight years old. (By John Osborne)  

Henry Moses Judah, the son of an Episcopal minister, had graduated from West Point with Ulysses S. Grant in 1843 and distinguished himself during the Mexican War.  During the Civil War, his service had not been without its up and downs but he had reached the rank of brevet brigadier-general.  He was popularly noted as the Union Army commander who had shared the rations of his men with impoverished Georgians around Marietta following the surrender.  After the war he had been stationed at Plattsburg, New York, where he died.  Judah had been plagued with alcoholism for decades and was only forty-four years old.  (By John Osborne)

Eliphalet Nott had been born in Connecticut and graduated from Brown University.  He became a Presbyterian clergyman, headed a congregation in Albany, New York and in 1804 became the president of Union College in Schenectady, New York.  He remained as Union president up to his death, sixty-two years later. and along the way became a well-known scientist researching heat.  (By John Osborne)