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Birthdays

Henry Aurand

1805-12-04 - 1876-10-08

Portus Baxter

1806-12-04 - 1868-03-04

Charles Force Deems

1820-12-04 - 1893-11-18

William Wing Loring

1818-12-04 - 1886-12-30

Allen Thomas

1830-12-04 - 1897-12-03

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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

Newspaper	New York Times, “The Slave Question,” December 4, 1861	12/04/1861
Military record	Brigadier General John W. Phelps, Proclamation to "The Loyal Citizens of the Southwest," December 4, 1861	12/04/1861
Executive record	William H. Seward to George B. McClellan, Contrabands in District of Columbia, December 4, 1861	12/04/1861