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Birthdays

Daniel Weisiger Adams

1821-05-01 - 1872-06-13

John W. Campbell

1799-05-01 - 1874-06-30

Nathan Fellows Dixon II

1812-05-01 - 1881-04-11

Augustus van Horne Ellis

1827-05-01 - 1863-07-02

William George Ferguson

1832-05-01 - 1898-08-20

George Franklin Fort

1809-05-01 - 1872-04-22

Thomas Harrison

1823-05-01 - 1891-07-14

William Young Conn Humes

1830-05-01 - 1882-09-11

John Bankhead Magruder

1807-05-01 - 1871-02-19

John McKinley

1780-05-01 - 1852-07-19

Henry Massey Rector

1816-05-01 - 1899-08-12

Mary Elizabeth Surratt

1823-05-01 - 1865-07-07

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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	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
Personal	David Wilmot serves in the United States Senate	03/14/1861 to 03/03/1863

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Documents

Military record

Major General Benjamin F. Butler, Proclamation to the Citizens of New Orleans, May 1, 1862

05/01/1862