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1864 Calendar

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•  April 17, 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins – Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.
•  May 19, 1864 – American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
•  May 31, 1864 – American Civil War Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor – The Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee engages the Army of the Potomac under Ulysses S. Grant & George G. Meade.
•  June 5, 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
•  June 15, 1864 – American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.
•  July 22, 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta – outside Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
•  November 25, 1864 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
•  December 15, 1864 – In the Battle of Nashville, Union forces under George H. Thomas almost completely destroy the Army of Tennessee under John B. Hood.
•  December 16, 1864 – American Civil War: Franklin-Nashville Campaign – Battle of Nashville – Major General George H. Thomas’s Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood’s Confederate Army of Tennessee.
•  December 22, 1864 – Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman, concluding his “March to the Sea”.

•  January 1, 1864 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (d. 1946)
•  January 5, 1864 – Ban Johnson, American baseball executive (d. 1931)
•  January 28, 1864 – Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English inventor (d. 1927)
•  February 17, 1864 – Banjo Paterson, Australian poet (d. 1941)
•  March 12, 1864 – Alice Tegnér, Swedish composer and organist (d. 1943)
•  March 13, 1864 – Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (d. 1941)
•  April 18, 1864 – Richard Harding Davis, American author (d. 1916)
•  August 26, 1864 – Anna Ulyanova, older sister of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1935)
•  September 27, 1864 – Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and Catholic Priest (d. 1938)
•  November 11, 1864 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1921)