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Birthdays

Jeremiah Goldsmith Anderson

1833-04-17 - 1859-10-18

Henry Washington Benham

1813-04-17 - 1884-07-01

John Curtis Caldwell

1833-04-17 - 1912-08-31

John Bullock Clark Sr.

1802-04-17 - 1885-10-29

Philip St. George Cocke

1809-04-17 - 1861-12-26

Charles Collins

1813-04-17 - 1875-07-10

Mifflin Wistar Gibbs

1828-04-17 - 1915-07-11

John Sedgwick Cleveland Robinson

1817-04-17 - 1897-02-18

Dauphin Adolphus Thompson

1838-04-17 - 1859-10-17

Joseph Albert Wright

1810-04-17 - 1867-05-11

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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
Legal/Political	Andrew Gregg Curtin serves as Governor of Pennslyvania	01/15/1861 to 01/15/1867
Personal	John W. Forney serves as secretary of the United States Senate	07/15/1861 to 06/04/1868
Legal/Political	John Wentworth serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1865 to 03/03/1867

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Documents

Military record

Brigadier General Edward D. Townsend to Major General Oliver O. Howard, Washington, D.C., April 17, 1866

04/17/1866