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Civil War Timeline / Chronology for 1864 <<Previous year Next year>> January, 1864
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Major events of 1864
February 9 , 1864
109 Union officers led by Colonel Thomas Rose escape from Libby Prison on the banks of the James River in Richmond. 59 reach Union lines
Virginia
Richmond, Virginia
May 5 , 1864 May 7 , 1864
Battle of the Wilderness
Ulysses S. Grant [US] is badly beaten on the field by Robert E. Lee [CS] but rather than retreat, Grant advances to Spotsylvania Court House.
Union: 17,666
Confederate: 7,750
Virginia
Bloodiest Civil War battles
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Army of Northern Virginia
Overland Campaign
James Longstreet
Winfield Scott Hancock
A. P. Hill
Richard Ewell
Gouverneur K. Warren
John Sedgwick
May 5 , 1864
Army of the James under General Benjamin Butler [US] lands at Bermuda Hundred and City Point, east of Petersburg. The Army is comprised of two corps totaling nearly 40,000 men.
Virginia
Benjamin Butler
Quincy A. Gillmore
William Farrar Smith
May 8 , 1864 May 19 , 1864
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
In an inconclusive battle, General Ulysses S. Grant [US] and Robert E. Lee [CS] battle for days southwest of Fredericksburg
Union 18,399
Confederate 9,000
Virginia
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Bloodiest Civil War battles
Army of Northern Virginia
Overland Campaign
Richard Ewell
May 27 , 1864
Battle of Picketts Mill
Georgia
George Thomas
Joseph E. Johnston
William Tecumseh Sherman
Atlanta Campaign
Oliver O. Howard
May 31 , 1864 June 12 , 1864
Battle of Cold Harbor
Robert E. Lee [CS] defeats General Ulysses S. Grant [US] and General George Meade [US]
Virginia
Army of Northern Virginia
Robert E. Lee
George Meade
Ulysses S. Grant
Gouverneur K. Warren
August 5 , 1864
18 Union ships sail past the entrance to Mobile Bay. The C. S. S. Tennessee , prize ironclad of the Confederate Navy awaited the attack. As the U. S. S. Tecumseh sinks Admiral David Farragut orders "Damn the torpedoes, go ahead." His flag vessel Hartford took the lead. The ships destroyed the Confederate fleet
Alabama
Battle of Mobile Bay
David Farragut
December 15 , 1864 December 16 , 1864
Battle of Nashville
Tennessee
John Bell Hood
George Thomas
Nashville Campaign
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