Birthdays

Henry "Box" Brown
Turns 49 on this date

Horace Gray
Turns 36 on this date

John Henry Hubbard
Turns 60 on this date

William Henry Longsdorff
Turns 30 on this date

William Boyer Lupton
Turns 31 on this date

Lambdin Purdy Milligan
Turns 52 on this date

Charles Henry Mytinger
Turns 31 on this date

Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose
Turns 37 on this date

John Wesley Powell
Turns 30 on this date
Events
Legal/Political | The first session of the 38th Congress is sitting in Washington DC from early January to early July, 1864 |
01/07/1864 to 07/03/1864 |
Education/Culture | The Louisiana pianist Louis Gottschalk plays for President Lincoln at a concert in Willard's Hotel. | 03/24/1864 |