Lieutenant-Colonel John Pelham killed at Kelly’s Ford, Va., 1863

Roger Brooke Taney born, 1777

March Eighteenth

John C. Calhoun, an honest man, the noblest work of God.

Andrew Jackson

He had the basis, the indispensable basis, of all high character, and that was unspotted integrity—unimpeached honor and character. If he had aspirations, they were high and honorable and noble. There was nothing grovelling or low, or meanly selfish that came near the head or the heart of Mr. Calhoun.

Daniel Webster
(Massachusetts)

John Caldwell Calhoun born, 1782

March Nineteenth