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Birthdays

John Wayne Ashmead

1806-05-16 - 1868-04-07

Alexander Robinson Boteler

1815-05-16 - 1892-05-08

Charles Mifflin Boyd

1826-05-16 - 1887-09-26

Martin Robinson Delany

1812-05-16 - 1885-01-24

William Henry Seward

1801-05-16 - 1872-10-10

Edmund Kirby Smith

1824-05-16 - 1893-03-28

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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	Ripley (OH) Bee, “Letter from a Union man in Kentucky,” May 16, 1861	05/16/1861
Letter	Montgomery Blair to Abraham Lincoln, May 16, 1861	05/16/1861
Newspaper	New York Times, “The Reward of Treason,” May 16, 1861	05/16/1861
Newspaper	Chicago (IL) Tribune, “Help From England,” May 16, 1861	05/16/1861