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 |