This Day in Delaware History:

1864    Major General Henry W. Halleck, US Army Chief of Staff, ordered the 1st Del. Cavalry and all infantry under Gen. Henry Lockwood to report to the Army of the Potomac in order to replenish the losses in the Battles of Chancellorsville and Spotsylvania.

1909    James C. (J. Caleb) Boggs, Congressman (1947-1953), Governor (1953-1960), and US Senator (1961-1973), was born in Cheswold.

1915    Joseph Levi and Company, a men's clothing store in business on Dover's Loockerman Street for 104 years, offered the very newest models of straw hats "not freaks but gentlemen's hats" from 50 cents to $3.00.

1945    The next to last German U-boat to surrender in World War II, the U 858, Capitainlieutenant Thilo Bode commanding, was brought into the Lewes Breakwater.



Today's facts were compiled by historian Roger Martin and brought to you by the Delaware Public Archives.  Visit http://archives.delaware.gov/ and discover what DPA has to offer!