Birthdays

Thomas Stanhope Bocock
Turns 49 on this date

Alexander Hamilton Coffroth
Turns 36 on this date

Hugh Asbury Curran
Turns 24 on this date

Alfred Napoléon Alexander Duffié
Turns 31 on this date

Ethan Allen Hitchcock
Turns 66 on this date

Robert Hammond Watson
Turns 46 on this date
Events
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 |
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 |