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Birthdays

Isaac Cook

1813-07-04 - 1886-06-23

David G. Eshleman

1816-07-04 - 1895-04-30

Reuben Eaton Fenton

1819-07-04 - 1885-08-25

Stephen Foster

1826-07-04 - 1864-01-13

Daniel Chevilette Govan

1829-07-04 - 1911-03-12

Nathaniel Hawthorne

1804-07-04 - 1864-05-19

George Latimer

1819-07-04 - 1900-01-01

William Porcher Miles

1822-07-04 - 1899-05-11

James Johnston Pettigrew

1828-07-04 - 1863-07-17

John Osborne Putnam

1818-07-04 - 1903-12-01

William Andrew Quarles

1825-07-04 - 1893-12-28

Green Clay Smith

1826-07-04 - 1895-06-29

William Henry Wadsworth

1821-07-04 - 1893-04-02

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Events

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
Legal/Political	Andrew Gregg Curtin serves as Governor of Pennslyvania	01/15/1861 to 01/15/1867

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Documents

Diary	Entry by Kate Stone, July 4, 1861	07/04/1861
Letter	James Colwell to Ann Colwell, July 4, 1861	07/04/1861
Newspaper	Boston (MA) Advertiser, “The Attacks Upon General Scott,” July 4, 1861	07/04/1861
Executive record	Abraham Lincoln, Message to the Congress in Special Session, July 4, 1861	07/04/1861