Twenty-one year old Private William Christman of the 67th Pennsylvania Infantry became the first of the many thousands of American service members and veterans buried at the former grounds of the Lee-Custis plantation grounds. now know as the Arlington National Cemetery.  Christman, a Pennsylvania farmer, had been enlisted only a few weeks when he contracted measles and died at a Washington military hospital. (By John Osborne)  

Famed Confederate cavalry general J.E.B. Stuart had died the previous day at his brother-in-laws' house in Richmond of the pistol wound he had received twenty-four hours earlier in a cavalry engagement at Yellow Tavern, Virginia. The funeral service was held at St. James' Episcopal Church in the city and his body, with eight generals as his pallbearers, was placed in a family vault at the Hollywood Cemetery. His widow, Flora, never remarried and was buried with him in on her death in 1923. (By John Osborne)  

While rallying his troops during the afternoon engagement the previous day at Yellow Tavern, Virginia, famed Confederate cavalry general J.E.B. Stuart had been hit with a single .44 caliber pistol shot in the right side of his stomach. He was taken from the field by ambulance and treated at his brother-in-laws' house in Richmond. After considerable suffering, he died quietly at 7:38 pm and was buried the next day at the Hollywood Cemetery in the city.  He was thirty-one years old. (By John Osborne)  

While rallying his troops during the afternoon engagement at Yellow Tavern, Virginia, famed Confederate cavalry general J.E.B. Stuart was hit with a single .44 caliber pistol shot from dismounted Trooper John Huff of the 5th Michigan cavalry under Union General G.A. Custer.  Wounded in the right side of his stomach, Stuart was taken from the field by ambulance and treated at a home in Richmond. He died quietly the following evening and was buried the day after at the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond.  He was thirty-one years old. (By John Osborne)  

The newly established Travellers' Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut issued its first official insurance policy designed specifically for travel accidents. Casualty insurance was not new but coverage for travel was. James Patterson had seen the idea work in the England and helped found the company the previous year.  Just over ten years later, the Travellers' sold in 1875 alone, 396,164 policies and paid out $283,738 in claims. (By John Osborne)

Delaware born, but Philadelphia raised Rebecca Davis Lee became the first African American woman with a medical degree when she graduated from the four year course at the New England Female Medical College in Boston, Massachusetts. She had previously practiced as a nurse in Charlestown, Massachusetts.  Following the Civil War she married Dr. Arthur Crumpler and practiced in Richmond before returning to Boston.  She practiced until around 1883 and died in 1895. (By John Osborne)

The first prisoners began arriving at Camp Sumter near Andersonville, Georgia, with the stockade not quite complete.  Over the following months hundreds of Union prisoners arrived daily until the planned 10,000 capacity had reached more than 32,000. In September 1864, Confederates, fearing Sherman's advance, began moving prisoners to South Carolina.  The camp did not close till May 1865, however.  (By John Osborne) 

In a church purchased from the Universialists, the Baltimore diocese was able to open the first parish church in the city, and possibly in the United States, exclusively for the use of African-Americans. Previously, all black Catholics had worshiped in existing church basements in off hours.  St. Francis Xavier was dedicated at Calvert and Pleasant Streets in the city and remains in operation today in different premises.  (By John Osborne)