Birthdays
Samuel Jameson Gholson
Turns 56 on this date
Richard Jacobs Haldeman
Turns 33 on this date
Harmar Denny Murray
Turns 26 on this date
Jonas John Potts
Turns 43 on this date
Events
| Battles/Soldiers | Battle of Spotsylvania, May 8-21, 1864 |
05/08/1864 to 05/21/1864 |
| Education/Culture | Famous writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, dies in his sleep while touring New Hampshire's White Mountains | 05/19/1864 |
| 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 |