Birthdays
Samuel Read Anderson
Turns 60 on this date
George Childs Burling
Turns 30 on this date
William Lewis Dayton
Turns 57 on this date
Francis Jay Herron
Turns 27 on this date
William Ward Orme
Turns 32 on this date
William Farrar Smith
Turns 40 on this date
Elikim Persons Walton
Turns 52 on this date
Phillip Alexander Work
Turns 32 on this date
Events
| Education/Culture | "Banjo" Patterson, Australian poet and author of "Waltzing Mathilda" is born in the New South Wales outback | 02/17/1864 |
| Battles/Soldiers | In Charleston Harbor, the C.S.S. H.L. Hunley attacks and sinks the first ship ever lost to a submarine | 02/17/1864 |
| 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 |
| Battles/Soldiers | William Stoker returns to Coffeeville, Texas on furlough |
01/24/1864 to 03/13/1864 |