Don Carlos Buell (American National Biography)

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Lowell H. Harrison, "Buell, Don Carlos," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/05/05-00099.html.
In the late summer [of 1862}, when Edmund Kirby Smith and [Braxton] Bragg invaded Kentucky, [Don Carlos] Buell left a holding force in Nashville but followed Bragg with most of his army and secured Louisville before the Confederates could occupy it. Then, moving with unusual rapidity, Buell launched a multipronged attack against the scattered Confederates. At Perryville on 8 October, neither side employed all of its strength. The Confederates made gains in savage fighting but then withdrew from the state. Unable to bring the Confederates to another battle, Buell soon gave up the pursuit.
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Charles Lewis Reason (American National Biography)

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Graham R. Hodges, "Reason, Charles Lewis," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00566.html.
[Charles] Reason was also active politically throughout his life. He was committed to the antislavery cause and worked unceasingly for improvement of black civil rights. In 1837 Reason, Henry Highland Garnet, and George Downing launched a petition drive in support of full black suffrage. He was also secretary of the 1840 New York State Convention for Negro Suffrage. Reason founded and was executive secretary of the New York Political Improvement Association, which won for fugitive slaves the right to a jury trial in the state.
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In Britain a legal judgment confirms that no British subject or company may own or sell slaves abroad

In London, the Court of Common Pleas decided the case of Santos v. Illidge, a dispute over contracts between a British mining company and a Brazilian labor contractor, in favor of the British defendants.  The court also ruled that British use of slave labor abroad as well as any purchase, ownership, and selling of slaves by British individuals or companies overseas over the past thirty-five years had been illegal since 1824.  A Briton could come into ownership of another human being only by inheritance or marriage.  (By John Osborne)
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Underwater telegraph line down the Red Sea from Suez to Aden is completed

An underwater cable was laid the length of the Red Sea from Suez to Aden as part of a continuing project to link London with its colonial holdings in India.  The laying operation, undertaken by the company of Newall and Sons, began on May 9, 1859 and was completed in three weeks. The effect of this new section was to reduce the time taken to pass messages between London and India by seven days. (By John Osborne)
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Senator Seward sails for Europe on a mission to "recruit his health" and study "Old World" institutions

Senator William Henry Seward left New York City bound for Southampton aboard the steamer Ariel on a fact-finding trip and holiday in Europe and the Holy Land.  His steamer was escorted out sea by vessels hired by the local Republican Party and in his farewell speech to his admiring New Yorkers hinted at the future when he told them that he would learn things on his travels that would enable him better to serve his country.  His family did not travel with him.  Seward did not win the presidencial nomination in 1860 but did serve as Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson.  (By John Osborne)
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