Representing as it did the efforts of only unauthorized individuals of the Roman and Anglican Churches, and urging a communion of prayer unacceptable to Rome, this association produced little fruit, and, in fact, was condemned by the Holy Office in 1864.

Nevertheless, Lincoln was concerned that Grant might be considering a candidacy for President in 1864, as McClellan was.

The damage caused by Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia in 1864 was limited to a swath, but neither Lincoln nor his commanders saw destruction as the main goal, but rather defeat of the Confederate armies.

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!

The Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 and 1864 granted federal support for the construction of the United States ' First Transcontinental Railroad, which was completed in 1869.

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.

But on Cemetery Hill, the I Corps could muster only a third of its men as effective for duty and the corps was essentially destroyed as a combat force for the rest of the battle ; it would be decommissioned in March 1864, its surviving units combined into other corps.

His sister was Lucy Aikin ( 1781 – 1864 ), a historical writer.

Johnson was nominated as the vice presidential candidate in 1864 on the National Union Party ticket.

In January 1864 Johnson organized a gathering of his state's Union loyalists, where resolutions were passed to elect county officials throughout the state, including a plan for a convention to dispose of the slavery issue ; also adopted was a very controversial and mandatory oath for voters, to protect and preserve the Union in the future.

As a leading War Democrat and pro-Union southerner, Johnson was an ideal candidate for the Republicans in the national election of 1864, as they sought to enlarge their base to include War Democrats ; they even changed the party name to the National Union Party to reflect this expansion.

Aloysius " Alois " Alzheimer (; 14 June 1864 – 19 December 1915 ) was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist and a colleague of Emil Kraepelin.

Alois Alzheimer was born in Marktbreit, Bavaria on 14 June 1864.

The castle was built between 1864 and 1879 on a cliff by the Atlantic ocean, and was designed by Viollet Le Duc in the Neo Gothic style.

New administrative districts ( vilayets ) were set up in 1864 and a Council of State was established in 1868.

On June 3, 1864 Abersychan was constituted a local government district, governed by a local board.

The new Breitkopf & Härtel and Bärenreiter make this alteration differently, but the result is a reading that is different from what was commonly accepted based on the 1864 Breitkopf edition.

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.

Another notorious cannibal was mountain man Boone Helm, who was known as " The Kentucky Cannibal " for eating several of his fellow travelers, from 1850 until his eventual hanging in 1864.

In Canada, the Great Coalition was formed in 1864 by the Clear Grits, Parti bleu, and Liberal-Conservative Party.

He and Lincoln were elected in 1864, inaugurated in early 1865 and a month later Johnson assumed the presidency upon Lincoln's assassination.

In 1864 Marx became involved in the International Workingmen's Association ( also known as First International )., to whose General Council he was elected at its inception in 1864.

The following four years would be the only time that the president and vice-president were from different parties ( John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun would later be elected president and vice-president as political opponents, but they were both Democratic-Republicans candidates ; Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln's second vice-president, was a Democrat, but Lincoln ran on a combined Union ticket in 1864, not as a strict Republican ).

He was elected, in the space of five years, to the Ethnological Society of London ( 1861 ), the Society of Antiquaries of London ( 1864 ) and the Anthropological Society of London ( 1865 ).

Upon Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, who had been elected with Lincoln in 1864 as the latter's vice president, became president.

In 1864 Stevenson was a presidential elector for the Democratic ticket ; he was also elected district attorney.

William Lawson was the first person elected to the Missouri legislature from Carter County in 1864 and served until 1870, at which time he was succeeded by F. M.

Finally, the Constitution of 1864 eliminated the rotating gubernatorial election districts and, since the election of 1868, the Governor has been elected by all the voters of the state.

* Greene Washington Caldwell ( born near present-day Belmont on April 13, 1806, died 1864 )-Congressional Representative from North Carolina, elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress ( March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843 )

Spending a short time in the mining camps of northern Idaho, Miller found his way to Canyon City, Oregon by 1864 where he was elected the third Judge of Grant County.

Three years later he was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress and also succeeded in being reelected to the three following Congresses ( March 4, 1857 to March 3, 1865 ), but in 1864 he failed to be elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress.

In 1864 he was appointed to the chair of philosophy at the Sorbonne, and elected a member of the academy of moral and political sciences.

In 1864 Burne-Jones was elected an associate of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours ( also known as the Old Water-Colour Society ), and exhibited, among other works, The Merciful Knight, the first picture which fully revealed his ripened personality as an artist.

He was elected to the Legislative Council in 1858 and 1864, attended the Quebec City Conference in 1864, and at Confederation was appointed to the Canadian Senate.

He was elected to the city council in 1864, to the Grand Council of the canton of Neuchâtel and in 1865 he became a member of the State Council ( Staatsrat ) where he headed the military department from 1865 to 1870 and the department of justice from 1870 to 1872.

Challet was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on 12 July 1864 as the first member from the Canton of Geneva.

He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on 30 July 1857 and resigned on 26 January 1864.

The elected Zemstvos, which formed a local government in the European sectors of the Russian Empire, had been initiated by Nicholas ' grandfather, Tsar Alexander II in 1864.

He became editor of the Dakota Union newspaper in 1864, was appointed clerk of the territorial Supreme Court in 1865, and was elected to the territorial council in 1866 and in 1867, chosen as president.

Andrew Johnson was elected with Abraham Lincoln on the National Union ticket in 1864, after serving as Democratic Senator and Governor in Tennessee, but effectively governed as an independent as the new party floundered into oblivion.

From 1864 to 1865, he was Secretary of State of New York, elected in 1863 on the Union ticket.