A eight-man board of officers, led by General Lew Wallace, heard evidence in the seven week trial of Henry Wirz, the former commandant of the Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, Georgia, for murder and conspiracy to murder.  Wirz was found guilty on eleven counts of murder and the conspiracy charge. The commission sentenced him to death and he was hanged November 10, 1865, at the Old Capital Prison in Washington D.C. (By John Osborne) 

The War Department appointed a nine-man board of officers, led by General Lew Wallace, to try Henry Wirz, the former commandant of the Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, Georgia, for murder and conspiracy to murder. The commission was sworn and the charges were read the same day.  After seven weeks of deliberations, Wirz was found guilty on eleven counts of murder and of the allegation of conspiracy, sentenced to death, and hanged on the morning of November 10, 1865, at the Old Capital Prison in Washington D.C. (By John Osborne) 

Harry Kelley, from London, had lost his sculling world championship to Robert Chambers of Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1859.  After a gap of six years, Kelley challenged Chambers for the championship in a race on the Thames and won back his title and the equivalent of $4,500.  Kelley later defended his world title against an American challenger, again in London, and then retired.  (By John Osborne)

The summer season for New Yorkers continued with the opening of the Saratoga Race Meeting, New York.  The event lasted for the following six days.  The highlight was the victory of the horse Kentucky in the $1000 Saratoga Cup.  (By John Osborne) 

The S.S. Great Eastern, converted into a cable layer was progressing well with the massive task of laying an Atlantic Telegraph Cable between the west coast of Ireland and Heart's Content in Newfoundland. With two thirds of the cable down, 1186 miles laid and 606 miles to go, disaster struck when the cable broke and was lost on the sea bottom. Several efforts to grapple it failed.  A year later, however, the Great Eastern repeated, and finally completed, the task.  (By John Osborne)    

Off Thunder Bay, Michigan on Lake Huron, two loaded steamships collided with great force just before dark. The upbound Meteor struck the southbound Pewabic, fully loaded with copper ore and up to 200 passengers. With her bow caved in the 738-ton Pewabic sank in minutes in 180 feet of water. At least forty passengers and crew were drowned, the exact number unknown since all passenger lists went down with the ship. (By John Osborne)  

Around 7:30p.m., a passenger train on the Norwich Railroad, bound from New London to New Haven, Connecticut, rounded a curve near Branford and hit a cow standing on the tracks.  The locomotive did not derail but the baggage car and the first passenger carriage were not so lucky. The baggage car rolled down an embankment severely injuring several of the train's crew.  Twelve railroad employees were hurt but only one passenger, but none were killed, happily avoiding inclusion in the disturbing string of recent railroad fatalities.  (By John Osborne)