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.

In 1864, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

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.

The Co-founder, Carter, came to Williamson County in 1864, and purchased of land and helped organize and secure a post office for Carterville in 1871.

Acme was established by L. S. Hoxie from Saratoga County, New York, who, after arriving here in 1864, purchased land and platted the settlement.

In 1864, Charles Sanford, of Madison County, New York, purchased of land where the village is now located, along with of pine land.

D. M. Bare moved with his wife to Spang's Mill in 1864 after having purchased the " Mill Seat Tract " with his father, a farmer from Sinking Valley in Blair County, north of Altoona.

Jay Cooke was among the investors who in 1864 purchased the South Mountain Iron Company at Pine Grove Furnace, a charcoal-fired iron operation dating to 1764.

Rancher Joseph M. Pomeroy purchased the land in 1864, and platted the town's site in May 1878.

European settlement in the Burien area dates to 1864, when George Ouellet, a French-Canadian from Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce, Quebec, purchased his first of several land patents for a homestead site directly from a Federal land office.

In February 1866, Christopher Ledwidge, landlord of the Caledonian Hotel since 1864, purchased the Royal Mail and incorporated the two into one hotel.

In March 1864, A. Sauva returned the keys to the property to Thomas Allen ( from whom the property had been purchased in 1858 ), leaving a large debt.

In 1864, he returned to Woodstock, Vermont, and in 1869 purchased George Perkins Marsh's former estate.

* In 1864 purchased more than one hundred Greek manuscripts ( 532-546 ) from Janina ( Epirus ), transported them to England between 1870 and 1872 and presented them to Sir Roger Cholmely's School, they were housed at the Highgate, in London

To reach Wilkes-Barre, the LVRR purchased the Penn Haven & White Haven Railroad in 1864, and began constructing an extension from White Haven to Wilkes-Barre that was opened in 1867.

From 1853 to 1864, the University of Oxford purchased a total of of land from Merton College to build the parks.

In 1889 two of the Ringlings went to Philadelphia where they purchased railroad cars and parade equipment from Adam Forepaugh, a venerable showman with a show on the road since 1864.

The house was originally called Lower House, but became Kelmscott Manor when James Turner ( d. 1870 ) purchased 53½ acres of manorial land together with the lordship in 1864.

Willard purchased the hotel from Tayloe in 1864, but a dispute over the purchase price and the form of payment ( paper currency or gold coin ) led to a major equity lawsuit which ended up in the Supreme Court of the United States.

*, a Civil War steamer that was purchased in 1864

He purchased a mill in Bay City, which he operated from 1858 to 1864.

In 1864, Robert Brown, leading the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition, discovered coal deposits in the Comox Valley, and by 1888 Robert Dunsmuir purchased mining claims in the area.

The Grand Trunk Railway leased the M & C in 1864 and purchased it outright in 1872.

In 1864, after the Society had gone through several temporary facilities, a building was purchased in the Back Bay area of the city and dubbed the " New England Museum of Natural History.

On March 26, 1864 Thomas C. Durant, vice president of the Union Pacific Railroad Company purchased the corporation as a front construction company, whereby the directors and principal stock holders of the Union Pacific retained all construction profits.

At some point, the horse, purchased by John Wilkes Booth in December 1864, that Powell was riding either threw him or he fell off.

The Albani library was sold between 1864 and 1928, and part of it was purchased by The Catholic University of America.

The manuscript material purchased in 1864 by Theodor Mommsen on behalf of the Prussian government was lost at sea on its way to Germany.