Birthdays
Thomas Lee Broun
Turns 41 on this date
James Edmund Bryant
Turns 16 on this date
Augustus Louis Chetlain
Turns 40 on this date
William Henry Miles
Turns 36 on this date
Emanuel H. Reigart
Turns 30 on this date
John Guier Scott
Turns 45 on this date
Events
| Legal/Political | The second session of the 38th Congress is in a two-week holiday recess until January 6, 1865 |
12/23/1864 to 01/05/1865 |
Documents
| Letter | Abraham Lincoln to William T. Sherman, December 26, 1864 | 12/26/1864 |
| Diary | Entry by Samuel Elliot, December 26, 1864 | 12/26/1864 |