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Birthdays

Joseph Emerson Brown

1821-04-15 - 1894-11-30

Mary Ann Day Brown

1817-04-15 - 1884-02-01

Edmund Strother Dargan

1805-04-15 - 1879-11-22

John Adams Halderman

1833-04-15 - 1908-09-21

Catesby Ap Roger Jones

1821-04-15 - 1877-06-20

Evander McNair

1820-04-15 - 1902-11-13

Horace Porter

1837-04-15 - 1921-05-29

Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Sherman

1822-04-15 - 1905-07-15

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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

Newspaper	Chicago (IL) Tribune, “Quick, Sharp, and Decisive,” April 15, 1861	04/15/1861
Newspaper	Richmond (VA) Dispatch, “Retaliation,” April 15, 1861	04/15/1861
Newspaper	New Orleans (LA) Picayune, “Lincoln’s War Talk,” April 15, 1861	04/15/1861
Newspaper	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Dread Arbitrament of War,” April 15, 1861	04/15/1861
Letter	Joseph Medill to Abraham Lincoln, April 15, 1861	04/15/1861