Birthdays
David Bell Birney
Turns 39 on this date
Joseph Lane
Turns 19 on this date
Solomon Meredith
Turns 54 on this date
Thomas Franses Pendel
Turns 40 on this date
Trusten Polk
Turns 53 on this date
Reuben Lindsay Walker
Turns 37 on this date
Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox
Turns 40 on this date
Events
| Battles/Soldiers | Grant's Overland Campaign against the Army of Northern Virginia continues |
05/05/1864 to 06/27/1864 |
| 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 |