He did have a meeting with Sir Ralph King, the second earl of Lovelace, Byron's grandson and last descendant, but these two Victorian gentlemen did not speak of literature. Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, wife of President Chester A. Arthur was born on this day in 1837. She died in 1880, the year her husband was elected Vice-President. On this day in 1842, the U.S. Congress passed its first law against the importation of obscene material into the country. On the same day, Wilberforce University was established in Xenia, Ohio, under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Some military historians consider it the South's greatest victory.
His success emboldened Lee to invade Maryland the next month. On this day in 1871, Ernest Lord Rutherford, the physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, was born in England. Confederate general John Bell Hood, commander of Hood's Texans, died on this day in 1879 at 48 of yellow fever in New Orleans. He is the model for the Louisiana populist politician Willy Stark in Robert Penn Warren's novel All the King's Men. Long's administration's funding of the South Central Review, published out of LSU and edited by Warren, accounted for the sympathetic treatment of Long in his novel, some critics charge.