Birthdays

James Dixon
Turns 50 on this date

Joseph Gordon Hamblen
Turns 20 on this date

James Bedell McKean
Turns 43 on this date

Duke Slavens
Turns 24 on this date

Thomas Weston Tipton
Turns 47 on this date

Erastus Wentworth
Turns 51 on this date
Events
Battles/Soldiers | In Mobile Bay, Alabama, U.S. naval forces win a comprehensive victory over the Confederate fleet | 08/05/1864 |