Explorer Adolphus Washington Greely was born on March 27, 1844, in Newburyport, Massachusetts. He served with the Union Army during the Civil War and later led a polar expedition. Greely was the second person in history to receive a Medal of Honor for “lifetime achievement.”
Cattle rancher Charles Goodnight was born on March 5, 1836, in Macoupin County, Illinois. One of America’s most famous cattle barons, Goodnight helped blaze a major cattle trail and is sometimes referred to as the “Father of the Texas Panhandle.”
On January 13, 1864, Stephen Foster, the “father of American music,” died in New York City.
Edwin McMasters Stanton was born on December 19, 1814, Steubenville, Ohio.
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was born on November 8, 1900, in Atlanta, Georgia.
On October 22, 1914, the Emergency Revenue Act was passed, which called for the creation of Wine Revenue Stamps.
On September 21, 1866, the 9th and 10th Cavalry units and the 38th, 39th, 40th, and 41st Infantry units (later consolidated as the 24th and 25th Infantry) were formed. The units were comprised entirely of black soldiers – the first to serve in a peacetime army. They would come to be known as Buffalo Soldiers.
Social worker Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Illinois.
Civil War general and 18th US president, Ulysses S. Grant died on July 23, 1885.