Birthdays
William Righter Fisher
Turns 15 on this date
Rufus H. McCeney
Turns 26 on this date
Robert Nugent
Turns 40 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 Georgia, Sherman's direct assault on Confederate positions on Kennesaw Mountain fails with heavy losses | 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 |
| Battles/Soldiers | Twenty-nine year old Daniel McCook of Ohio's "Fighting McCooks" is killed on Kennesaw Mountain | 06/27/1864 |