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Birthdays

Louisa May Alcott

1832-11-29 - 1888-03-06

Merritt Caldwell

1806-11-29 - 1848-06-06

Andrew McElwain Criswell

1824-11-29 - 1899-03-31

Hamilton Rowan Gamble

1798-11-29 - 1864-01-31

Stephen Augustus Hurlbut

1815-11-29 - 1882-03-27

William Ballard Preston

1805-11-29 - 1862-11-16

Thomas Edwin Greenfield Ransom

1834-11-29 - 1864-10-29

Louis Douglass Watkins

1833-11-29 - 1868-03-29

Robert William Wells

1795-11-29 - 1864-09-22

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Events

Legal/Political	Stephen A. Douglas serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1847 to 06/03/1861
Legal/Political	Elihu Washburne serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1853 to 03/06/1869
Legal/Political	Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873
Personal	Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio	10/26/1856 to 01/01/1862
Personal	Ozias Mather Hatch serves as Illinois Secretary of State	01/01/1857 to 01/31/1865

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Documents

Letter	William T. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, November 29, 1860	11/29/1860
Newspaper	New York Times, “Political Assassination,” November 29, 1860	11/29/1860