Birthdays
Alfred Horatio Belo
Turns 25 on this date
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Turns 46 on this date
John Neff Coombs
Turns 41 on this date
John Gray Foster
Turns 41 on this date
Robert Frederick Hoke
Turns 27 on this date
Julia Ward Howe
Turns 45 on this date
Richard Watson Humphriss
Turns 28 on this date
Edwin Gray Lee
Turns 28 on this date
Events
| 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 |