Birthdays
Ambrose Everett Burnside
Turns 40 on this date
Henry Champion Deming
Turns 49 on this date
Charles Hall
Turns 37 on this date
John Shirk
Turns 21 on this date
Eli Slifer
Turns 46 on this date
Lewis Tappan
Turns 76 on this date
John Ogden Winner
Turns 38 on this date
Events
| Battles/Soldiers | Battle of North Anna, May 23- May 26, 1864 |
05/23/1864 to 05/26/1864 |
| Battles/Soldiers | Grant's Overland Campaign against the Army of Northern Virginia continues |
05/05/1864 to 06/27/1864 |
| US/the World | In London, the formal royal celebrations of the Queen's official birthday return after a four year hiatus | 05/23/1864 |
| Education/Culture | Nathaniel Hawthorne is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts | 05/23/1864 |
| 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 |