1864 TIMELINE
Unsorted 1964 Events [Bottom]
FEBRUARY
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17 - Confederate submarine ?+
CSS H.L. Hunley sinks the Union Warship Housatonic off Charleston. The Housatonic is the first warship sunk by a sub. The Hunley disappeared with all hands.
20 - |FLORIDA| Union forces lose at Olustee
27 - Infamous Andersonville Prison opens doors for prisoners
MARCH
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01 - Alleged Union attempt to kidnap or kill Davis fails
10 - Grant made general-in-chief of all armies of the U.S.
10 - |LOUISANNA| Union Red River Campaign starts
11 - Union Ambulance Corps established
13 - |LOUISANNA| Red River Campaign starts
26 - |KENTUCKY| Battle of Paducah
APRIL
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08 - |LOUISANNA|CIVIL WAR| Battle of Mansfield
12 - |TENNESSEE| Confederates recapture Ft. Pillow.
30 - |ARKANSAS| Confederates win at Jenkins Ferry
MAY
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05 - 07 - |VIRGINIA| Battle of the Wilderness; Lee vs. Grant
07 - Sherman begins drive towards Atlanta
04 - June 12 - Grant Overland Campaign
08-19 - |VIRGINIA| Battle of Spotsylvania Court House; Lee vs Grant
11 - |VIRGINIA| Stuart mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern
12 - |GEORGIA| Sherman outflanks Johnston at Dalton
14-15 - |GEORGIA| Battle of Resaca; Sherman vs. Johnston
15 - |VIRGINIA| Battle of New Market; Sigel vs. Breckinridge
16 - Battle of Drewry's Bluff
23 - |VIRGINIA| Four day Battle of North Anna River
25 - |GEORGIA| Four day battle at New Hope Church; Sherman vs. Johnston
28 - Rebel's attack and burn Lamar, Mo.
JUNE
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1-3 - |VIRGINIA| Battle of Cold Harbor; Grant vs. Lee
10 - |MISSISSIPPI| Union loses at Brices Crossroads
12 - |VIRGINIA| Grant begins flanking movement across James River to Petersburg
18 - |VIRGINIA| Grant sieges Petersburg when assaults fail
19 - Union Kearsarge sends Confederate raider Alabama to bottom off France
23 - Early's Washington Raid begins
27 - |GEORGIA| Battle of Kennesaw Mountain; Sherman vs. Johnston
JULY
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06 - |MARYLAND| Confederate forces capture Hagerstown and demand ransom.
11 - Confederates attack Ft. Stevens, Washington D.C. and withdraw
12 - Early's Confederate forces reach Washington D.C. but withdraw
14 - |MISSISSIPPI| Battle of Tupelo; Sherman vs. Forrest
17 - CSA Hood replaces Joe Johnston - skirmishes around Atlanta
20 - |GEORGIA| Battle of Peachtree Creek; Sherman vs. Johnston
22 - Battle of Atlanta; Sherman vs. Johnston
24 - |VIRGINIA| Second Battle of Kernstown
28 - |GEORGIA| Battle of Ezra Church
30 - |VIRGINIA| Battle of the Crater, Petersburg; Grant vs. Mahone
AUGUST
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05 - |ALABAMA| Adm. Farragut wins Battle of Mobile Bay
07 - |W. VIRGINIA| Battle of Moorefield
18 - |VIRGINIA| Battle of Weldon Railroad, Petersburg
23 - |ALABAMA| Union captures Ft. Morgan; the last site of large Federal land campaign
24 - |VIRGINIA| Battle of Reams Station
31 - |GEORGIA| Two day Battle of Jonesborough
SEPTEMBER
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01 - |GEORGIA| Confederates evacuate Atlanta
02 - |GEORGIA| Sherman occupies Atlanta
19 - |VIRGINIA| 3rd battle of Battle of Winchester; Sheridan vs. Early
29 - |VIRGINIA| Battle of Fort Harrison
29 - |VIRGINIA| Two day Battle of Chaffin's Farm
30 - |VIRGINIA| Three day Battle of Peeble's Farm
OCTOBER
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05 - Battle of Allatoona,
Ga.
09 - Third Battle of Winchester,
Va.
19 - |VIRGINIA| Gen. Phil Sheridan, Union wins at Cedar Creek
19 - Confederate raiders attack St. Albans, Vermont
19 to nov 09 - Forrest's raid at Johnsonville, Tennessee
22 - |VIRGINIA| Battle of Fisher's Hill.
23 - Battle of Westport, Mo.
27 - Confederate raiders kill two dozen unarmed soldiers at Centralia, Mo.
NOVEMBER
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08 - Lincoln reelected
16 - Sherman prepares March to the Sea leaving Atlanta, Ga.
19 - Sherman begins famous March to the Sea
21 - Hood begins Nashville and Franklin Campaign
22 - Sherman occupies Milledgeville, Georgia
25 - Confederate plans to burn New York City fails
30 - Battle of Franklin, Tennessee - 5 Confederate generals die
DECEMBER
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13 - Sherman captures Ft. McAllister which guards Savannah, Georgia
15-16 - Thomas beats Hood at Nashville, Tennessee
16 - |VIRGINIA| Union forces capture Wytheville.
21 - Sherman occupies Savannah, Georgia
22 - Sherman gives Savannah
to Lincoln as a Christmas gift
EVENTS
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-Russian law establishes local legislatures.
-Louis Pasteur proves that abiogenesis doesn't work.
-Prussia and Austria join forces to capture Holstein and Schleswig from the Danish.
-Workers in "railway post office" sort mail on trains.
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-Postal money orders sold in U.S; $1.3 million in 6 months.
-The railroad train hooks on a mail car.
-|VIRGINIA| wireless electromagnetic waves are transmitted 14 miles.
x - Wilhelm Bauer proposes submarines ?+ be powered by a
not yet practical internal combustion engine.
Ignored by his native Germany, Bauer
later becomes a hero of the Nazi era
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