Birthdays
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Turns 61 on this date
William M. Lemen
Turns 30 on this date
Henry Hopkins Sibley
Turns 48 on this date
Bennett Henderson Young
Turns 21 on this date
Events
| Battles/Soldiers | Battle of North Anna, May 23- May 26, 1864 |
05/23/1864 to 05/26/1864 |
| Battles/Soldiers | Grant's Overland Campaign against the Army of Northern Virginia continues |
05/05/1864 to 06/27/1864 |
| Education/Culture | In England, the horse Blair Athol wins the eighty-fifth running of the Derby | 05/25/1864 |
| 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 |