Birthdays
Alexander Hamilton Bayly
Turns 23 on this date
Abner Doubleday
Turns 45 on this date
Victor Jean Girardey
Turns 27 on this date
George Smith Patton
Turns 31 on this date
John Peter Cleaver Shanks
Turns 38 on this date
Benjamin Stark
Turns 44 on this date
Loreta Janeta Velazquez
Turns 22 on this date
James Bain White
Turns 29 on this date
Events
| Battles/Soldiers | Battle of Marietta, June 9-July 3, 1864 |
06/09/1864 to 07/03/1864 |
| Battles/Soldiers | Grant's Overland Campaign against the Army of Northern Virginia continues |
05/05/1864 to 06/27/1864 |
| Battles/Soldiers | In Virginia, a week long Union cavalry raid on Confederate communications meets with mixed success |
06/22/1864 to 07/01/1864 |
| 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 |