Birthdays
Napoleon Bonaparte Buford
Turns 57 on this date
Salmon Portland Chase
Turns 56 on this date
Wesley Cochran
Turns 50 on this date
William Henry French
Turns 49 on this date
Joseph Eldridge Hamblin
Turns 36 on this date
Humphrey Marshall
Turns 52 on this date
Ernestine Louise Polowsky Rose
Turns 54 on this date
Edward Stout
Turns 43 on this date
Events
| Personal | In New York's Bellevue Hospital, songwriter Stephen Foster dies suddenly, aged thirty-seven | 01/13/1864 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | In Richmond, Virginia, the First Confederate Congress is sitting in its fourth and final session |
11/18/1863 to 02/21/1864 |
| 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 |