Birthdays
Frederick H. Beecher
Turns 23 on this date
William Laws Boswell
Turns 36 on this date
James Henry Lane
Turns 50 on this date
James John Patterson
Turns 26 on this date
John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn
Turns 53 on this date
Richard Wootton
Turns 72 on this date
Events
| Battles/Soldiers | Battle of Marietta, June 9-July 3, 1864 |
06/09/1864 to 07/03/1864 |
| Battles/Soldiers | Grant's Overland Campaign against the Army of Northern Virginia continues |
05/05/1864 to 06/27/1864 |
| Battles/Soldiers | In Virginia, a week long Union cavalry raid on Confederate communications meets with mixed success |
06/22/1864 to 07/01/1864 |
| 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 |