" Running the ' Machine ' ": An 1864 political cartoon takes a swing at Lincoln's administration — featuring William Fessenden, Edwin Stanton, William H. Seward | William Seward, Gideon Welles, Lincoln and others.

During his raid on Washington, D. C. in 1864, Lincoln was watching the combat from an exposed position ; Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes shouted at him, " Get down, you damn fool, before you get shot!

This first attempt at an amendment failed to pass, falling short of the required two-thirds majority on June 15, 1864, in the House of Representatives.

On 3 September 1864, a shed, used for the preparation of nitroglycerin, exploded at the factory in Heleneborg Stockholm, killing five people, including Nobel's younger brother Emil.

* 1864 – American Civil War: The Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.

* 1864 – Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War.

* 1864 – American Civil War: the Battle of Mobile Bay begins – at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield – Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.

Morisot's first appearance in the Salon de Paris came at the age of twenty-three in 1864, with the acceptance of two landscape paintings.

Captured by Confederate Colonel John S. Mosby's men at Culpeper, Virginia on June 24, 1864, Corbett was held prisoner at Andersonville prison for five months, when he was exchanged.

A core standard valve layout based on the action of three valves had become almost universal by ( at latest ) 1864 as witnessed by Arban's Method published in that year.

There was talk of a Maritime Union of the three provinces to have greater political power ; however, the first discussions on the subject in 1864 at the Charlottetown Conference led to the process of Canadian Confederation which formed the larger Dominion of Canada instead. Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, an archetypal Maritime scene

10 of the 1864 amending Pacific Railroad Act ( 13 Statutes at Large, 356 ) additionally authorized the company to issue its own " First Mortgage Bonds " in total amounts up to ( but not exceeding ) that of the bonds issued by the United States.

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

* 1864 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.

His early major works for the voice included The Masque at Kenilworth ( 1864 ); an oratorio, The Prodigal Son ( 1869 ); and a dramatic cantata, On Shore and Sea ( 1871 ).

Booth played Hamlet for 100 nights in the 1864 / 5 season at The Winter Garden Theatre, inaugurating the era of long-run Shakespeare in America.

The currents at Cranstal proved too strong, and in 1864 the cable was taken up and relaid further south, at Port-e-Vullen in Ramsey Bay.

* 1864 – American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor – Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.

* 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.

* 1864 – Ikedaya Incident: the Choshu Han shishi's planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya.

Some of the buildings designed by the Sugdens are as follows: the Congregational Church with its 130 ’ spire, ( now Trinity Church ), built in the Victorian Gothic Revival style ( 1863 ), Myatt ’ s Mill in Earl Street ( 1864 ), Mill Street Methodist Chapel and Ragged School ( 1870 ), the Cottage Hospital, in memory of silk manufacturer James Allsop ( 1871 ), their own houses in Queen Street, complete with monograms for William, Larner and for Larner ’ s French wife ( 1877 ), West Street School ( extended in 1881 ), the District Bank, which exhibits a strong Richard Norman Shaw influence ( 1882 ) and the Leonard Street Police Station in Scottish Baronial style ( 1891 ).

Hanley no longer has a railway station but there was once one located on Trinity Street, on the Potteries Loop Line, which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway for passengers on July 13, 1864.

The plants and objects collected by Spruce ( mostly in Brazil ) from 1849 to 1864 form an important botanical, historical and ethnological resource, and are currently being databased at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London and at Trinity College Dublin.

While at Trinity, Todhunter won the Vice-Chancellor's prize for English Verse 1864, 1865 and 1866, and the Gold Medal of the Philosophical Society 1866 for an essay.

In 1864, at Trinity College, Toronto, F. Barlow Cumberland and Frederick A. Bethune devised rules based on rugby football.

In 1864, at Trinity College, Toronto, F. Barlow Cumberland and Frederick A. Bethune devised rules based on rugby football.

In 1864 Eliot returned to Boston, though he continued to teach classes at Trinity until 1874.

In 1864, Toland founded a new medical school, Toland Medical College, and the faculty of Cooper Medical College chose to suspend operations and join the new school.

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.

James Legge continued to be Principal until he was appointed by the Government in 1864 to help prepare for the opening of Queen's College.

Also popular was Zaner-Bloser Script, introduced by Charles Paxton Zaner ( 15 February 1864 – 1 December 1918 ) and Elmer Ward Bloser ( 6 November 1865 – 1929 ) of the Zanerian Business College.

The first college to be set up for higher education was the Maharajas College, founded in 1864.

In 1864 he entered Magdalene College, Cambridge, which he left two years later without taking a degree.

Rutgers College became the land-grant college of New Jersey in 1864 under the Morrill Act of 1862, resulting in the establishment of the Rutgers Scientific School, featuring departments of agriculture, engineering, and chemistry.

* Merton College, Oxford: Grove Building, 1864

He enrolled in nearby Hanover College in 1863 and studied for about one year until patriotism inspired him to enlist with the Union Army in 1864 as a corporal in Company I of the 137th Regiment Indiana Volunteers during the American Civil War.

Mount Holyoke College graduate Sarah Chapin, the last principal of girls at Williston Seminary, became the town's first high school principal in 1864.

The Central Wesleyan College was an important German-American institution from 1864 to 1941.

The borough was originally part of Springfield Township, and grew up around Swarthmore College, which was founded in 1864.

* George Smith ( bishop ) ( 1815 – 1871 ), 2nd principal of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong, 1849 – 1864

On the outskirts of the village near Monk Stray was Elmfield College, a Primitive Methodist foundation which existed from 1864 to 1932, when it merged with Ashville College in Harrogate.

In 1864 he became the tenth president of Columbia College ( now Columbia University ) in New York City, which position he held until the year before his death, his service thus being longer than that of any of his predecessors.

He was ordained in 1864 and held a fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford, 1868-1882.

* William Anthony Granville ( 1864 – 1943 ), American mathematician, the sixth president of Gettysburg College from 1910 until 1923

* Edward Hitchcock ( 1793 – 1864 ), President of Amherst College and geologist

He then attended St. Macartan's College in Monaghan from 1859 to 1864.

He thereafter became a member of the first class at the North American College in Rome, was ordained to the priesthood in 1863, and received the doctorate of divinity in 1864.

Corrigan returned to New Jersey in 1864, where he joined the faculty at Seton Hall College and the Immaculate Conception Seminary, both located in South Orange, as professor of theology and history.

It had a publishing house ( 1834 ) and Bonebrake Theological Seminary ( 1871 ) at Dayton, Ohio ; and supported Otterbein University ( 1847 ) at Westerville, Ohio ; Westfield College ( 1865 ) at Westfield, Illinois ; Leander Clark College ( 1857 ) at Toledo, Iowa ; York College ( 1890 ) at York, Nebraska ; Philomath College ( 1867 ) at Philomath, Oregon ; Lebanon Valley College ( 1867 ) at Annville, Pennsylvania ; Campbell College ( 1864 ) at Holton, Kansas, and Indiana Central College ( later Indiana Central University and now the University of Indianapolis ) ( 1907 ) at Indianapolis, Indiana.