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Birthdays

Arthur Pendleton Bagby

1833-05-17 - 1921-02-21

Joseph Conrad

1828-05-17 - 1897-07-16

Charles Henry Kalbfus

1834-05-17 - 1911-09-24

Joseph Warren Revere

1812-05-17 - 1880-04-20

Bayard Wilkeson

1844-05-17 - 1863-07-01

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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	Savannah (GA) News, “The Civil War in Missouri,” May 17, 1861	05/17/1861
Newspaper	Richmond (VA) Dispatch, “New European Views of the South,” May 17, 1861	05/17/1861