Birthdays
Laurence Simmons Baker
Turns 34 on this date
Thomas Leonidas Crittenden
Turns 45 on this date
Richard Schell
Turns 54 on this date
Jacob Thompson
Turns 54 on this date
Julia Ann Toombs
Turns 51 on this date
Isaac Ridgeway Trimble
Turns 62 on this date
Events
| Battles/Soldiers | Battle of New Market, May 15, 1864 | 05/15/1864 |
| Battles/Soldiers | Battle of Resaca, May 13-15, 1864 |
05/13/1864 to 05/15/1864 |
| Battles/Soldiers | Battle of Spotsylvania, May 8-21, 1864 |
05/08/1864 to 05/21/1864 |
| Battles/Soldiers | Grant's Overland Campaign against the Army of Northern Virginia continues |
05/05/1864 to 06/27/1864 |
| Battles/Soldiers | Private William Stoker dies sometime after the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry in May 1864 | 05/15/1864 |
| 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 |