Stephen Elliot, Jr. had been a planter in South Carolina before the war and had raised an artillery unit when the Civil War broke out.  He went on to command around Charleston, including Fort Sumter, and played a decisive role in the Battle of the Crater outside Petersburg, Virginia.  He was wounded numerous times during his service and returned from the war largely impoverished but entered state politics.  He died at Aiken, South Carolina from complications from his war wounds, however, before he could take office.  (By John Osborne) 

Dr. Anthony Dostie, a local dentist and Reverend Jotham Welles Horton, the Boston-born chaplain to the Louisiana Convention that had been broken up the week before by hundreds of murderous rioters denying its legitimacy, had both been seriously injured during the disturbances.  Dostie had been shot multiple times and Horton had been beaten and shot while pleading for calm.  Both men died from their injuries on this day. (By John Osborne)

Democrat John B. Steele had been a U.S. Congressman during the Civil War but had failed to win nomination for his New York constituency in 1864. He was running again for his old seat but suffered fatal head injuries in Runout, New York when his carriage collided with a post after its horse had been startled.  He died before the end of the day; he was fifty-two years old.  (By John Osborne) 

Lieutenant Henry Hamilton Wilson was the only son of Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts and his wife Harriet.  He had left the U.S. Naval Academy to serve in the U.S. Army, reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel commanding U.S. Colored Troops as a teenager. Accepting a regular commission in the the Sixth Cavalry after the war, he died, probably of cholera, in Austin, Texas.  He was twenty years old.  (By John Osborne) 

Colonel Sir George Everest, the famous Indian Army surveyor and geographer died at his home in Hyde Park Gardens, London, aged seventy-six.  He had for decades mapped the Indian sub-continent, completing the massive survey begun earlier at the start of the century and receiving a knighthood in 1861.  In 1865, the world's highest mountain had been named in his honor.  (By John Osborne)   

The twenty-seven year old Princess Victoria Kamāmalu Kaʻahumanu IV, designated heir to the Hawaiian throne to follow her brother King Kamehameha V, fell ill at a dinner party earlier in the year in Honolulu and never recovered.  Pro-United States and friendly to American missionaries, when she died she left her childless brother with no viable heirs and when he died the new ruler was selected by popular election. (By John Osborne).

The newly formed Soldiers and Sailors Union was designed as a Democratic-supporting veterans' group to counter the Republican-oriented Grand Army of the Republic. The Union held its first national convention in Cleveland, Ohio, with its famous head, Union cavalry hero George Armstrong Custer in the chair. The meeting largely backed all of President Johnson's reconstruction policies.  (By John Osborne)

The newly formed Soldiers and Sailors Union was designed as a Democratic-supporting veterans' group to counter the Republican-oriented Grand Army of the Republic. Espousing a more inclusive and conciliatory attitude towards the South, including its veterans, the Union named as its head the young Union cavalry hero, George Armstrong Custer, who had been moving into Democratic Party circles.  (By John Osborne)