Due to his western successes, Ulysses S. Grant was given command of all Union armies in 1864, and organized the armies of William Tecumseh Sherman, George Meade and others to attack the Confederacy from all directions, increasing the North's advantage in manpower.

* 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins – Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.

:* Battle of Ezra Church, July 28, 1864, Sherman's failed attack west of Atlanta where the railroad entered the city.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek – Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor – Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.

* 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.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Saltville – Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops.

* 1864 – St. Albans Raid – Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.

In 1864 Union Naval Lieutenant Cushing fitted a steam launch with a spar torpedo to attack the Confederate ironclad CSS Albermarle.

On 8 December 1864, Boole died of an attack of fever, ending in pleural effusion.

Longstreet's attack in the Battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864, shortly before he was wounded.

" Longstreet helped save the Confederate Army from defeat in his first battle back with Lee's army, the Battle of the Wilderness in May 1864, where he launched a powerful flanking attack along the Orange Plank Road against the Union II Corps and nearly drove it from the field.

On April 12, 1864, General Forrest led his forces in the attack and capture of Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River in Henning, Tennessee.

In November 1864, a small village of Cheyenne and Arapaho became victims of the Sand Creek massacre, an attack by the Colorado militia, led by Colonel John Chivington.

Gen. Wheaton had become a local folk hero when he successfully defended Washington, DC and nearby Fort Stevens from an attack by Confederate General Jubal Early on July 11 – 12, 1864.

Union forces repelled a Confederate attack in October 1864.

It was from Breach Inlet in 1864 that this small vessel was launched to attack and sink the.

On December 24, 1864, Union forces under Major General Benjamin F. Butler and Rear Admiral David D. Porter launched a two-day attack, but were beaten back.

His health at this time deteriorated markedly and he returned to South Africa, where he died following a heart attack on 20 October 1864.

The critic Joseph Bédier ( 1864 – 1938 ) launched a particularly withering attack on stemmatics in 1928.

Apologia Pro Vita Sua ( Latin: A defense of one's life ) is the classic defense by John Henry Newman of his religious opinions, published in 1864 in response to what he saw as an unwarranted attack on him, the Catholic priesthood, and Roman Catholic doctrine by Charles Kingsley.

On the morning of November 29, 1864, Chivington ordered his troops to attack.

Imperial Chinese Qing Dynasty sent Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang to attack the city, and Chen Xueming ( 陈学明 ), the Taiping army commander in charge of defending the southern gate of the town surrendered on 26 August 1864.

The Waitangi Tribunal has argued that apart from the attack on Sentry Hill in April 1864, there was an absence of Māori aggression throughout the entire Second War, and that therefore Māori were never actually at war.

The family moved to Christiania ( now Oslo ) in 1864 when Christian Munch was appointed medical officer at Akershus Fortress.

In 1864, Nicholas, or " Nixa " as he was known in his family, went to Denmark where he was betrothed to Dagmar.

In 1864, Ellen took up temporary residence in South Bend, Indiana, to have her young family educated at the University of Notre Dame and St. Mary's College.

It was not until 1864 that the family anglicized their name from Steinweg to Steinway.

In January 1864, Whistler's very religious and very proper mother arrived in London, upsetting her son's bohemian existence and temporarily exacerbating family tensions.

When Civil War casualties overflowed hospitals and burial grounds near Washington, D. C., Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs proposed in 1864 that of the Robert E. Lee family property at Arlington be confiscated for a cemetery.

Bessville is named after the Bess family, including Sam Bess ( who was the owner of the very first store here ) and Levi Bess, the first postmaster of the post office that was in existence in Bessville from July 25, 1856-March 21, 1864 and then again from April 6, 1871-April 30, 1955.

Calvert died in 1864 ; however, the property remained in the ownership of the Calvert family for another twenty years.

Chiloquin was the pioneer version of a Klamath family name Chaloquin, which was the name of a Klamath chief who was alive at the time of the treaty of 1864.

The land that would become Forest City was settled in 1864 by William Pentecost and family and chosen for its dense forest, of which only a small portion of the original forest still remains today in the Industrial Park ( where mine # 1 was once located ) and at the beginning of Delaware Street.

At the time the author owed large sums of money to creditors, and was trying to help the family of his brother Mikhail, who had died in early 1864.

When the mill was sold in 1864 to the Cude family, its name was changed to Cude's Mill.

On March 14, 1864, the John C. Dewey family, Mormon pioneer immigrants from England, left Calls Fort, Utah, and settled at Empey Springs, an area originally settled by William Empey.

It was rumored that Erich Kästner's natural father was not Emil Kästner, but rather the Jewish family doctor, Emil Zimmermann ( 1864 – 1953 ).

Lucy Aikin ( 6 November 1781 – 29 January 1864 ), born at Warrington, England into a distinguished literary family of prominent Unitarians, was a historical writer.

Nearing's grandfather, Winfield Scott Nearing, had arrived in Tioga County with his family in 1864, at the age of 35, when he accepted a job as a civil and mining engineer.

William Wilde was knighted in January 1864, but the family celebrations were short-lived, for in the same year Sir William and Lady Wilde were at the centre of a sensational Dublin court case regarding a young woman called Mary Travers, the daughter of a colleague of Sir William's, who claimed that he had seduced her and who then brought an action against Lady Wilde for libel.

Meanwhile, in 1864, the Danish royal family, impressed by Victoria's trappings of Empire, arranged the marriage of the Princess to the future Edward VII, so helping to reverse the Anglo-German alliance, which led to the 1914 war.

Gould was born into a sporting family in Newport in 1864.

Jones ' tombstone in Jackson's Mount Calvary Cemetery gives his birth year as 1864, but according to information his mother wrote in the family Bible, he was born in 1863.

In 1864, after Bytown was chosen as the new capital of the Province of Canada, Rideau Hall was leased by the Crown from the McKay family for $ 4, 000 per year and was intended to serve only as a temporary home for the viceroy until a proper government house could be constructed.

In 1864 his family moved to Valdosta, Georgia.

When her father died in 1864, she inherited $ 7. 5 million ($ 107 million in 2010 adjusted for inflation ) in liquid assets, against the objections of most of her family, and invested in Civil War war bonds.

Run as a family business, it was chartered in 1861 but did not open until 1864.