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06/13/1840	John James Audubon to Spencer Fullerton Baird, June 13, 1840
09/30/1850	Boston (MA) Herald, “First Arrest under the New Fugitive Slave Bill,” September 30, 1850
10/28/1852	New York Times, "Runaway Slave Found," October 28, 1852
04/03/1853	Philadelphia Vigilance Committee Journal, April 3, 1853
10/04/1853	John Henry Hill to William Still, October 4, 1853
01/19/1854	John Henry Hill to William Still, January 19, 1854
04/29/1854	Richmond (VA) Dispatch, "Underground Operations," April 29, 1854
06/27/1854	Jacob Bigelow (William Penn) to William Still, June 27, 1854
04/20/1855	Louisville (KY) Journal, “Untitled,” April 20, 1855
11/10/1855	Jacob Bigelow (William Penn) to William Still, November 10, 1855
12/26/1855	N. R. Johnston to William Still, December 26, 1855
01/24/1856	Hezekiah Hill to William Still, January 24, 1856
07/26/1856	New York Herald, "Breakdown on the Underground Railroad," July 26, 1856
09/18/1856	Henry James Morris to William Still, September 18, 1856
12/18/1856	N. R. Johnston to William Still, December 18, 1856
12/23/1856	John Hall to William Still, December 23, 1856
01/01/1857	Washington (DC) National Era, "The Future Judged by the Past," January 1, 1857
01/16/1857	New York Times, “The Tariff Bill,” January 16, 1857
03/03/1857	New York Times, "The American Party," March 3, 1857
03/23/1857	New York Times, “Tendencies Towards Free-Trade,” March 23, 1857
03/31/1857	New York Times, “Man Overboard!,” March 31, 1857
04/11/1857	New York National Anti-Slavery Standard, "The Chief Justice Insane!," April 11, 1857
04/17/1857	New York Times, “Advertising Patronage and the ‘Irish’ Weekly Newspapers,” April 17, 1857
05/24/1857	J. W. C. Pennington to William Still, May 24, 1854
05/27/1857	Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Southern Rights," May 27, 1857
05/29/1857	New York Times, “Prize Essay on Slavery,” May 29, 1857
06/10/1857	New York Times, “Republican Planks,” June 10, 1857
06/26/1857	New York Times, “A Word for the School Children,” February 14, 1857
07/13/1857	E. L. Stevens to William Still, July 13, 1857
07/29/1857	New York Times, “A Fugitive Slave Excitement in Philadelphia,” July 29, 1857
09/11/1857	New York Times, “Another Failure,” September 11, 1857
09/14/1857	New York Times, “The Financial Panic,” September 14, 1857
09/19/1857	New York Times, “Mormonism in the East,” September 19, 1857
09/21/1857	New York Times, “Mormonism in the City Exploded,” September 21, 1857
10/02/1857	New York Times, “Amusements,” October 14, 1857
10/13/1857	New York Times, “The Hard Times in the City,” October 13, 1857
10/14/1857	New York Times, “The Crisis at Last,” October 14, 1857
10/14/1857	New York Times, “The American Panic,” October 14, 1857
10/16/1857	New York Times, “The Hard Times in the City,” October 16, 1857
10/20/1857	New York Times, “Suspension Terrors,” October 20, 1857
10/22/1857	Washington (DC) National Era, “Collapse of Abolitionists,” October 22, 1857
10/29/1857	James Gillespie Birney to Gerrit Smith, October 29, 1857
10/30/1857	New York Times, “The Ballot-Box and the Bayonet,” October 30, 1857
11/26/1857	Washington (DC) National Era, "Gen. Walker and the Administration," November 26, 1857
12/09/1857	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Runaway Slave in Brooklyn, N.Y.,” December 9, 1857
12/22/1857	New York Times, “A New York Slaver Arrived at Norfolk,” December 22, 1857
01/27/1858	New York Herald, "The Approaching Conclusion of the Kansas Comedy," January 27, 1858
02/26/1858	New York Herald, "Political Agitation in this Metropolis," Febraury 26, 1858
05/15/1858	Louisa F. Jones to William Still, May 15, 1858
06/01/1858	Richmond (VA) Dispatch, "The Underground Railroad," June 1, 1858
06/05/1858	New York Times, “The New Orleans Committee,” June 5, 1858
06/10/1858	New York Evangelist, "Embarkation of Missionaries," June 10, 1858
06/10/1858	New York Times, "Insecurity of Railroads," June 10, 1858
06/11/1858	New York Times, "The Blasting Disaster in Thirty-Seventh-Street," June 11, 1858
06/14/1858	New York Times, "The Farce of Jury Trials," June 14, 1858
06/16/1858	(Jackson) Mississippian State Gazette, "The Duty of Our Government," June 16, 1858
06/28/1858	New York Times, "The Heat," June 28, 1858
06/30/1858	New York Times, "Quarantine Affairs," June 30, 1858
07/02/1858	Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Hot Weather," July 2, 1858
07/24/1858	Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, "Woman's Rights," July 24, 1858
08/29/1858	St. Louis (MO) Republican, “Let the Jubilee be General,” August 29, 1858
09/08/1858	New York Times, “The Union Meeting at the Cooper Institute,” September 8, 1858
09/28/1858	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Western Trade,” September 28, 1858
09/30/1858	New York Times, “Delinquencies in the Custom House,” September 30, 1858
10/04/1858	New York Times, “Fusion in the City,” October 4, 1858
10/21/1858	New York Times, “New York in an Uproar,” October 21, 1858
10/26/1858	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Sanitary Condition of New York,” October 26, 1858
11/01/1858	New York Herald, "Election Eve," November 1, 1858
11/18/1858	New York Times, “The Police Arrests for the Year,” November 18, 1858
11/28/1858	New York Herald, “Mr. Douglas On His Travels,” November 28, 1858
12/06/1858	Anne Lynch Botta to Henry Whitney Bellows, December 6, 1858
12/07/1858	New York Times, “The President’s Weakness,” December 7, 1858
12/20/1858	New York Times, “Senator Douglas and the City Government,” December 20, 1858
12/31/1858	New York Times, “Sleeping Cars upon Railroads,” December 31, 1858
01/01/1859	New York Times, “Starvation in New York,” January 1, 1859
01/04/1859	New York Times, “Arrival of Senator Douglas in Philadelphia,” January 4, 1859
01/14/1859	New York Herald, “Increase Without Improvement,” January 14, 1859
01/20/1859	New York Times, “A Pitiful Nuisance,” January 20, 1859
01/21/1859	New York Times, “Another Suspected Slaver,” January 21, 1859
02/03/1859	New York Times, “An Armed Police,” February 3, 1859
02/05/1859	Samuel Gridley Howe to John Murray Forbes, February 5, 1859
02/21/1859	New York Times, "News By Telegraph," February 21, 1859
02/24/1859	New York Times, “The Mint,” February 24, 1859
03/03/1859	Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, “Mortality in New York,” March 7, 1859
03/29/1859	San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, “What is an ‘Outlaw?’,” March 29, 1859
04/19/1859	New York Times, “Philadelphia Jealousy,” April 19, 1859
05/14/1859	New York Times, “Disturbing Public Meeting,” May 14, 1859
05/15/1859	New York Herald, “The Condition of the Streets,” May 15, 1859
06/01/1859	New York Times, “Misplaced Zeal,” June 1, 1859
06/19/1859	Memphis (TN) Appeal, “Sickles,” June 19, 1859
06/24/1859	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Ho! for Niagara,” June 24, 1859
06/29/1859	New York Times, “Albany and Richmond,” June 29, 1859
06/30/1859	New York Times, “Douglas and Van Buren,” June 30, 1859
07/21/1859	New York Herald, “The Game of Base Ball,” July 21, 1859
07/22/1859	San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, “Stage-Coach Travel Forty Years Ago,” July 22, 1859
08/01/1859	New York Times, “The People in the Central Park,” August 1, 1859
08/10/1859	New York Times, “The Slave Trade,” August 10, 1859
08/11/1859	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “The Slave Trade at the North,” August 11, 1859
08/20/1859	New York Herald,“Attempt of a Slave to Escape,” August 20, 1859
09/12/1859	New York Times, “Breaking Up Rapidly,” September 12, 1859
09/26/1859	New York Times, “The Fourth Ward Reading-Room,” September 26, 1859
10/04/1859	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Another Filibuster Crusade,” October 4, 1859
10/10/1859	Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, “Senator Broderick Killed in a Duel,” October 10, 1859
11/06/1859	New York Herald, “Naval Officers and Their Uniform,” November 6, 1859
11/11/1859	Boston (MA) Liberator, "Bad News for the Abolitionists," November 11, 1859
11/27/1859	New York Herald, “A Suggestion to Governor Wise About Old Brown,” November 27, 1859
11/29/1859	New York Herald, “Kit Carson Not Dead,” November 29, 1859
12/01/1859	New York Times, “Sense from South America,” December 1, 1859
12/04/1859	New York Herald, “The South and Southern Safety,” December 4, 1859
12/05/1859	Abby Howland Woolsey to Eliza Newton Woolsey Howland, December 5, 1859
12/18/1859	New York Herald, “The New York Herald in the South,” December 18, 1859
12/20/1859	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Capture of a Slaver with 300 Negroes,” December 20, 1859
12/21/1859	New York Times, “Practical Secession,” December 21, 1859
12/22/1859	New York Times, "Southern Students in New York," December 22, 1859
12/23/1859	New York Times, "The Southern Medical Students," December 23, 1859
12/26/1859	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Medical Students,” December 26, 1859
12/27/1859	New York Herald, “Nomination of Gen. Scott by the New York Union Meeting,” December 27, 1859
01/01/1860	New York Herald, “Forrest Divorce Case,” January 1, 1860
01/05/1860	New York Herald, "The Underground Railroad and Its Victims," January 5, 1860
01/05/1860	New York Herald, “The Runaway Slaves,” January 5, 1860
01/06/1860	Greensboro (NC) Patriot, "Secession of the Medical Students," January 6, 1860
01/07/1860	Richmond (VA) Dispatch, “The Underground Railroad,” January 7, 1860
01/11/1860	Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “Another Grievance for Virginia,” January 11, 1860
01/17/1860	New York Times, "The Exodus of Southern Medical Students," January 17, 1860
01/22/1860	New York Herald, “The Brooklyn Police and Street Assaults,” January 22, 1860
01/30/1860	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Harper’s Ferry Items,” January 30, 1860
02/08/1860	Boston (MA) Advertiser, “Tenement Houses,” February 8, 1860
02/11/1860	Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “Thaddeus Hyatt,” February 11, 1860
02/13/1860	New York Times, “The Post-Office and the Express,” February 13, 1860
02/20/1860	New York Times, “Salt in the Streets,” February 20, 1860
02/21/1860	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Buckeyes Swindled,” February 21, 1860
02/25/1860	New York Herald, “The Senate and Messrs Hyatt and Howe,” February 25, 1860
03/04/1860	Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln, March 4, 1860
03/11/1860	New York Herald, “The Wild Sports of New York in Courts,” March 11, 1860
03/15/1860	Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, "Helperism," March 15, 1860
05/05/1860	(Omaha) Nebraskian, “Monument to John Brown,” May 5, 1860
05/06/1860	New York Herald, “Corruption in the United States Marshal’s Office,” May 6, 1860
05/12/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “A Fool-hardy and Fatal Balloon Ascension,” May 12, 1860
05/13/1860	New York Herald, “The Quarantine Question and the Approaching Summer,” May 13, 1860
05/14/1860	New York Herald, “Activity of the African Slave Trade,” May 14, 1860
05/17/1860	Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “The Slave Trade in New York,” May 17, 1860
05/18/1860	New York Times, “A Douglas Demonstration in New York,” May 18, 1860
05/20/1860	New York Herald, “Another Boiler Explosion,” May 20, 1860
05/21/1860	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "The Black Republican Nominees," May 21, 1860
06/01/1860	Newark (OH) Advocate, “Abraham Lincoln,” June 1, 1860
06/18/1860	John L. Scripps to Abraham Lincoln, June 18, 1860
06/22/1860	New York Times, “The Scandal of ‘Tommy’,” June 22, 1860
06/25/1860	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Douglas’ Saturday Night,” June 25, 1860
07/01/1860	New York Herald, “The California Mails,” July 1, 1860
07/03/1860	New York Herald, “The Recent Murders in the City,” July 3, 1860
07/09/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “A New Picture of Lincoln,” July 9, 1860
07/11/1860	John L. Scripps to Abraham Lincoln, July 11, 1860
07/17/1860	John L. Scripps to Abraham Lincoln, July 17, 1860
07/19/1860	New York Times, “Sanitary Condition of the City,” July 19, 1860
07/23/1860	New York Herald, “Slaves in New York,” July 23, 1860
07/25/1860	(Jackson) Mississippian, “Black Republicanism Defined,” July 25, 1860
08/07/1860	New York Herald, “The Journey of the Prince of Wales,” August 7, 1860
08/28/1860	New York Herald, “Our Weekly Bill of Mortality,” August 28, 1860
09/02/1860	New York Herald, “Pennsylvania Politicians and New York Money,” September 2, 1860
09/09/1860	New York Herald, “The Dreadful Steamboat Accident on Lake Michigan,” September 9, 1860
09/21/1860	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Who Began It?,” September 21, 1860
09/30/1860	New York Herald, “Campaign Documents,” September 30, 1860
10/02/1860	New York Herald, “Brady's New National Photographic Gallery,” October 2, 1860
10/03/1860	New York Times, “The Wide-Awake Parade,” October 3, 1860
10/12/1860	Anonymous. “True Republicans” to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, October 12, 1860
10/21/1860	New York Herald, “American Sensations During 1860,” October 21, 1860
10/23/1860	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Prince and the Boston Ladies,” October 23, 1860
10/25/1860	New York Herald, “The Demonstration on Tuesday Night,” October 25, 1860
11/04/1860	New York Herald, “The New York Herald and the Disunion Question,” November 4, 1860
11/06/1860	New York Herald, “Down With the Helper Treason,” November 6, 1860
11/14/1860	Raleigh (NC) Standard, "Untitled," November 14, 1860
11/15/1860	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "The U. S. Arsenal," November 15, 1860
11/22/1860	Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, “Bad State of Affairs,” November 22, 1860
11/22/1860	August Belmont to Herschel Johnson, November 22, 1860
12/06/1860	August Belmont to William Sprague, December 6, 1860
12/10/1860	New York Herald, “Our Burdens for the Winter,” December 10, 1860
12/18/1860	Abraham Lincoln to Henry J. Raymond, December 18, 1860
12/21/1860	Newark (OH) Advocate, "Suffering in New York," December 21, 1860
12/21/1860	John Thompson to William Still, December 21, 1860
12/23/1860	New York Herald, "Mobs in Northern Cities," December 23, 1860
12/28/1860	Anna H. Richardson to William Still, December 28, 1860
12/31/1860	New York Times, “Flight of a Great Criminal,” December 31, 1860
01/03/1861	New York Times, “Honor to Major Anderson,” January 3, 1861
01/13/1861	New York Herald, “Helper’s Lecture to Come Off,” January 13, 1861
01/14/1861	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “A Lecture Postponed,” January 14, 1861
01/16/1861	New York Times, “Aid For Disunion,” January 16, 1861
01/25/1861	New York Times, “Rumored Invasion of the South,” January 25, 1861
02/16/1861	C. A. to William Still, February 16, 1861
02/25/1861	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Mayor Wood Lectures Lincoln,” February 25, 1861
02/26/1861	New York Herald, “Old Abe Hung in Effigy in the Metropolis,” February 26, 1861
03/05/1861	New York Times, “Reception of the Inaugural,” March 5, 1861
03/10/1861	New York Herald, “Causes of Excessive Mortality in New York and Brooklyn,” March 10, 1861
03/17/1861	New York Herald, “The New York Vessels Seized by the State of Georgia,” March 17, 1861
03/23/1861	New York Times, “A Not Very Civil War,” March 23, 1861
03/25/1861	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Spirit of Washington Letters,” March 25, 1861
03/27/1861	San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, “Prospects of the Speedy Completion of the Pacific Telegraph,” March 27, 1861
04/03/1861	San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, “A Story of ‘Prince Bob’,” April 3, 1861
04/11/1861	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "Alarming News," April 11, 1861
04/15/1861	Entry by George Templeton Strong, April 15, 1861
04/15/1861	Proclamation by Mayor Fernando Wood of New York City, April 15, 1861
04/16/1861	James Henderson to Abraham Lincoln, April 16, 1861
04/16/1861	Entry by George Templeton Strong, April 16, 1861
04/17/1861	Entry by George Templeton Strong, April 17, 1861
04/21/1861	John A. Andrew to George W. Brown, April 21, 1861
04/23/1861	David D. Field to Abraham Lincoln, April 23, 1861
04/24/1861	New York Times, “How to End the War,” April 24, 1861
04/27/1861	Entry by George Templeton Strong, April 27, 1861
04/27/1861 - 04/28/1861	C. P. Kirkland, Jr.’s Letter, April 27-28, 1861
04/28/1861	New York Herald, “Protection to Southern Property in New York,” April 28, 1861
05/01/1861	New York Times, “Arms for the Rebels,” May 1, 1861
05/06/1861	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "What We Have To Expect," May 6, 1861
05/07/1861	New York Herald, “English Opinions on American Affairs,” May 7, 1861
05/09/1861	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Unfounded Complaints,” May 9, 1861
05/11/1861	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Feat of the Zouaves,” May 11, 1861
05/14/1861	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Lying Dexterity,” May 14, 1861
05/16/1861	Chicago (IL) Tribune, “Help From England,” May 16, 1861
05/19/1861	New York Herald, “Letters for the Army,” May 19, 1861
05/22/1861	Savannah (GA) News, “Disinterested Black Republican Patriots,” May 22, 1861
06/05/1861	Raleigh (NC) Register, “Signs of Distress,” June 5, 1861
06/13/1861	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Revival of the Sedition Law,” June 13, 1861
06/20/1861	New York Times, “Famine Among the Confederates,” June 20, 1861
06/24/1861	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “From the West,” June 24, 1861
07/16/1861	New York Tribune, “Our Soldiers’ Families,” July 16, 1861
07/23/1861	Edwin D. Morgan to Abraham Lincoln, July 23, 1861
07/30/1861	John C. Fremont to Abraham Lincoln, July 30, 1861
08/10/1861	John P. Crawford to Abraham Lincoln, August 10, 1861
08/20/1861	Chicago (IL) Tribune, “Secession Organs in the North,” August 20, 1861
08/22/1861	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “A Dismal Foreboding,” August 22, 1861
10/10/1861	Boston (MA) Advertiser, “Naval Expeditions and the Press,” October 10, 1861
10/21/1861	New York Herald, “The Pacific Telegraph Line,” October 21, 1861
10/31/1861	Henry Bellows to William Seward, Report on Condition of Confederate prisoners in New York City, October 31, 1861
11/22/1861	Captain W.H. Nelson of the Harvey Birch, Sworn protest at the November 19, 1861 destruction of his ship, November 22, 1861
12/19/1861	Secretary William H. Seward to General Andrew Porter, Arrest Order for George Wallace Jones, December 19, 1861
12/29/1861	New York Herald, "Settlement of the Trent Difficulty," December 29, 1861
01/22/1862	Judge Samuel R. Betts, U.S. District Court, New York, Condemnation of Schooner Albion as Lawful Prize, January 22, 1862
02/08/1862	New York National Anti-Slavery Standard, "Mr. Conway’s Lecture," February 8, 1862
03/24/1862	Horace Greeley to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, March 24, 1862, New York City
08/22/1862	Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley, Washington, DC, August 22, 1862
11/02/1862	Mary Todd Lincoln to Abraham Lincoln, November 2, 1862
11/28/1862	Boston (MA) Liberator, "The Two Capitals," November 28, 1862
12/31/1862	Thurlow Weed to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, March 4, 1865, Washington D.C.
06/26/1863	New York Times, “A Word to Pennsylvania,” June 26, 1863
07/15/1863	George D. Chenoweth to James W. Marshall, July 15, 1863
08/17/1863	Abraham Lincoln to James Henry Hackett, August 17, 1863
09/21/1863	Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln, September 21, 1863
11/02/1863	Abraham Lincoln to James Henry Hackett, November 2, 1863
06/16/1864	Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Great Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1864
08/22/1864	Henry J. Raymond to Abraham Lincoln, August 22, 1864, New York City
03/15/1865	Abraham Lincoln to Thurlow Weed, March 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.
03/24/1865	Robert Cobb Kennedy, Confession of his efforts to fire New York City, given the day before his execution, March 24, 1865
04/06/1865	Editorial, "The Fall of Richmond and Southern Feeling," New York Times, April 6, 1865
04/07/1865	Editorial, "The Next Step," New York Times, April 7, 1865
04/13/1865	"The President's Speech - The Question of Reconstruction," New York Times, April 13, 1865
04/17/1865	"The Murder of President Lincoln," New York Times, April 16, 1865
02/20/1866	Editorial, New York World, February 20, 1866
04/14/1866	George William Curtis, "The Civil Rights Bill," Harper's Weekly Magazine, April 14, 1866, pp. 226-227.

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Expedition to the Arctic sails from New York City

An expedition to the Arctic, aboard the steamship Advance and led by Elisha Kent Kane, left New York City and sailed north. The endeavor will end in disaster when the ship is trapped in the ice near Cape Constitution and the crew will only save itself by trekking 1000 miles to the nearest civilization. (By John Osborne)

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The ice cream freezer is patented in Baltimore

William G. Young of Baltimore, Maryland patents the ice cream freezer. (By John Osborne)

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Nantucket, MA

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The first woman is elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Elected unanimously, Maria Mitchell became the first female member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. An astronomer, she had discovered a telescopic comet during her observations on Nantucket, Massachusetts the previous October. (By John Osborne)

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The first telegraphed news bulletin relays the results of the Oregon question debate to Baltimore

When the House of Representatives voted on the Oregon question, the Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Patriot telegraphed the result to his newspaper. It was the first news dispatch of its kind. (By John Osborne)

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Commercial telegraph service inaugurated in Washington, D.C.

Samuel Morse, in the Supreme Court Room at the United States Capitol, sent the first commercial telegraph message of his new service. It went to Alfred Vail at the Mount Clare Station of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Baltimore, who responded instantly. The message was a phrase from the Old Testament, Judges 23:23, "What hath God wrought." (By John Osborne)

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Abraham Lincoln of Springfield, Illinois receives a patent for a device to aid riverboats over shoals

Abraham Lincoln of Springfield, Illinois was awarded a patent for a device made up of inflatable cylinders to help lift riverboats over shoals. (By John Osborne)

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03/24/1849	William Still Recalls "Box" Brown's Escape
08/11/1850	New York Herald, "A Nest of Runaway Slaves Captured by Pennsylvanians," August 11, 1850
09/13/1851	Boston (MA) Evening Transcript, "The Fugitive Slave Riots in Pennsylvania," September 13, 1851
09/14/1851	New Orleans (LA) Picayune, "The Fugitive Slave Riot," September 14, 1851
09/23/1851	(Columbus) Ohio State Journal, "The Christiana Tragedy," September 23, 1851
04/20/1852	New York Times, “Great Floods in the Potomac and Shenandoah,” April 20, 1852
12/11/1852	New York Times, “Louisiana Legislature,” December 11, 1852
04/03/1853	Philadelphia Vigilance Committee Journal, April 3, 1853
01/06/1854	Debate over the Estimates for Rivers and Harbors, House of Representatives, January 6, 1854
03/10/1854	New York Times, “Fatal Railroad Accident,” March 10, 1854
07/24/1854	Hiram Wilson to William Still, July 24, 1854
08/20/1855	Samuel Miles to William Still, August 20, 1855
06/01/1856	Harriet Eglin to William Still, June 1, 1856
07/31/1856	Harriet Eglin to William Still, July 31, 1856
09/18/1856	Henry James Morris to William Still, September 18, 1856
10/28/1856	Harriet Eglin to William Still, October 28, 1856
01/03/1857	Richmond (VA) Dispatch, "A Case in Point," January 3, 1857
05/28/1857	C. L. Groce to Luke, May 28, 1857
09/14/1857	New York Times, “The Financial Panic,” September 14, 1857
10/15/1857	New York Times, “Desperate Riots in Baltimore,” October 15, 1857
10/30/1857	New York Times, “The Ballot-Box and the Bayonet,” October 30, 1857
10/31/1857	Thomas Garrett to William Still, October 31, 1857
11/16/1857	Samuel Pattison to L. W. Thompson, November 16, 1857
01/27/1858	New York Herald, "The Approaching Conclusion of the Kansas Comedy," January 27, 1858
06/01/1858	Richmond (VA) Dispatch, "The Underground Railroad," June 1, 1858
06/10/1858	Nat Ambie to William Still, June 10, 1858
07/02/1858	Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Hot Weather," July 2, 1858
08/29/1858	St. Louis (MO) Republican, “Let the Jubilee be General,” August 29, 1858
11/07/1858	New York Herald, “Douglas for the Presidency,” November 7, 1858
02/02/1859	Lewis Burrell to William Still, February 2, 1859
05/14/1859	James Buchanan to Harriet Rebecca Lane, May 14, 1859
05/16/1859	New York Times, “Affray in Baltimore,” May 16, 1859
06/13/1859	New York Times, “The Free Negroes of Maryland,” June 13, 1859
07/22/1859	San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, “Stage-Coach Travel Forty Years Ago,” July 22, 1859
08/03/1859	New York Herald, “Bloody Riots in Baltimore,” August 3, 1859
10/18/1859	Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, “Riot at Harper’s Ferry,” October 18, 1859
10/20/1859	Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, “Negro Insurrection!," October 20, 1859
10/27/1859	Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, "Governor Wise on the Harper's Ferry Insurrection," October 27, 1859
11/11/1859	Greensboro (NC) Patriot, "Maryland Election," November 11, 1859
11/17/1859	Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, "The Plea Will Not Avail Them," November 17, 1859
12/02/1859	John Thomas Lewis Preston to Margaret Junkin Preston, December 2, 1859
12/02/1859	Entry by Thomas Jonathan Jackson, December 2, 1859
12/16/1859	Columbus (OH) Gazette, "For the Columbus Gazette," December 16, 1859
01/19/1860	New York Herald, "The Maryland Legislature and the Underground Railroad," January 19, 1860
03/17/1860	T. E. Norris to Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, March 17, 1860
03/17/1860	New York Times, "Democratic National Convention," March 17, 1860
03/17/1860	New York Times, “The Last of the Harper’s Ferry Slaughter,” March 17, 1860
05/09/1860	Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “The Coming Conventions,” May 9, 1860
05/10/1860	New York Times, “Disunion Plots,” May 10, 1860
05/12/1860	Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “The Charleston Convention,” May 12, 1860
05/18/1860	New York Times, “A Douglas Demonstration in New York,” May 18, 1860
05/22/1860	New York Herald, “Extraordinary Activity of the Slave Trade,” May 22, 1860
05/27/1860	New York Herald, “Bell and Everett Going Ahead,” May 27, 1860
05/30/1860	Schuyler Colfax to Abraham Lincoln, May 30, 1860
06/12/1860	Richard W. Thompson to Abraham Lincoln, June 12, 1860
06/12/1860	New York Herald, “Commencement of Republican Cabinet Making,” June 12, 1860
06/14/1860	Charlestown (VA) Free Press, “Mr. Bell’s Acceptance,” June 14, 1860
06/18/1860	New York Times, “The Baltimore Convention,” June 18, 1860
06/19/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “The Fillmore Men,” June 19, 1860
06/25/1860	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Douglas’ Saturday Night,” June 25, 1860
07/07/1860	Atchison (KS) Freedom's Champion, “The Democratic ‘Irrepressible Conflict,’” July 7, 1860
07/07/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Shabby Treatment,” July 7, 1860
07/19/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “An Important Change,” July 19, 1860
07/21/1860	New York Times, “The Herald in Harness,” July 21, 1860
08/08/1860	Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, "Who Are For Disunion?," August 8, 1860
08/17/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “How the Field Looks,” August 17, 1860
08/21/1860	New York Times, “Mr. Yancey's Speech,” August 21, 1860
09/08/1860	Dover (NH) Gazette, “Withdrawal of General Houston,” September 8, 1860
10/07/1860	New York Herald, “The Trip to Virginia,” October 7, 1860
10/21/1860	New York Herald, “American Sensations During 1860,” October 21, 1860
12/26/1860	Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, “Secession Explained,” December 26, 1860
12/31/1860	Thomas Cadwallerder to Abraham Lincoln, December 31, 1860
01/17/1861	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “An Incident at Fort Sumter,” January 17, 1861
01/24/1861	Leonard Swett to Abraham Lincoln, January 24, 1861
02/15/1861	Worthington G. Snethen to Abraham Lincoln, February 15, 1861
02/28/1861	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Lincoln’s Flight to Washington,” February 28, 1861
03/02/1861	Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “Mr. Lincoln at Washington,” March 2, 1861
03/04/1861	New York Times, “The Plot Against Mr. Lincoln’s Life,” March 4, 1861
04/16/1861	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Border States,” April 16, 1861
04/18/1861	Proclamation of the Governor of Maryland, April 18, 1861
04/20/1861	George W. Brown to John A. Andrew, April 20, 1861
04/20/1861	New York Times, “The Position of Maryland,” April 20, 1861
04/21/1861	New York Herald, “News from Baltimore,” April 21, 1861
04/21/1861	John A. Andrew to George W. Brown, April 21, 1861
04/23/1861	David D. Field to Abraham Lincoln, April 23, 1861
04/24/1861	Andrew H. Reeder to Simon Cameron, April 24, 1861
04/27/1861 - 04/28/1861	C. P. Kirkland, Jr.’s Letter, April 27-28, 1861
04/29/1861	Chicago (IL) Tribune, “Washington Safe,” April 29, 1861
04/29/1861	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “What Can We Believe?,” April 29, 1861
04/29/1861	William Willey to Waitman Willey, April 29, 1861
05/02/1861	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "Neutrality," May 2, 1861
05/05/1861	New York Times, “Affairs in Maryland,” May 5, 1861
05/27/1861	Boston (MA) Advertiser, “Impotent Rage,” May 27, 1861
05/30/1861	New York Times, “Civil and Martial Law at Baltimore,” May 30, 1861
06/15/1861	(Concord) New Hampshire Statesman, “The Patriot and the Merryman Case,” June 15, 1861
06/28/1861	New York Times, “Arrest of Marshal Kane,” June 28, 1861
06/29/1861	Worthington G. Snethen to Winfield Scott, June 29, 1861
07/01/1861	Marriot Boswell to William H. Seward, July 1, 1861
07/03/1861	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Does It Pay to Feed Passing Troops?,” July 3, 1861
08/14/1861	Raleigh (NC) Register, “Arrest of a Traitor,” August 14, 1861
11/01/1861	Gen. John Dix to the U.S. Marshals in Maryland, Instructions on the upcoming State Elections, November 1, 1861
11/13/1861	Major-General John Adams Dix, To the People of Accomac and Northampton Counties of Virginia, November 13, 1861
11/23/1861	Brigadier-General Henry Lockwood, To the People of Accomac and Northampton Counties of Virginia, November 23, 1861
08/09/1862	New York National Anti-Slavery Standard, "Speech of Rev. M.D. Conway," August 9, 1862
09/05/1862	Reverdy Johnson to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, September 05, 1862
07/03/1863	Philadelphia (PA) North America and United States Gazette, “A Desperate Battle At Gettysburg,” July 3, 1863
07/10/1863	John Keagy Stayman to Edgar Hastings, July 1863
08/07/1863	John Hay to John Nicolay, August 7, 1863
03/27/1864	Stephen Minot Weld, Jr. to Stephen Minot Weld, Sr, Annapolis, Maryland, March 25, 1864
06/16/1864	Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Great Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1864
08/02/1864	Bangor (ME) Whig and Courier, “The Destruction of Chambersburg,” August 2, 1864
04/17/1865	"The Consequence," Chicago Tribune, April 17, 1865
08/08/1866	Resolutions, Democratic Party of Maryland in Convention, Baltimore, August 8, 1866.
08/15/1866	Resolutions, the Unconditional Union party of Maryland in Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, August 15, 1866.
12/04/1871	William Whipper to William Still, December 4, 1871
01/01/1872	Daniel Bonsall to William Still, 1872

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The Democratic National Convention closed in Baltimore, Maryland having nominated Lewis Cass of Michigan and William Orlando Butler of Kentucky as the party's presidential and vice-presidential candidates. (By John Osborne)

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