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Birthdays

Laurence Simmons Baker

1830-05-15 - 1907-04-10

Thomas Leonidas Crittenden

1819-05-15 - 1893-10-23

Richard Schell

1810-05-15 - 1879-11-10

Jacob Thompson

1810-05-15 - 1885-03-24

Julia Ann Toombs

1813-05-15 - 1883-09-04

Isaac Ridgeway Trimble

1802-05-15 - 1888-01-02

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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	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

Letter	Abraham Lincoln to Henry Wilson, May 15, 1862	05/15/1862
Military record	Major General Benjamin F. Butler, General Order Number 28, May 15, 1862	05/15/1862