:* Battle of Utoy Creek, August 5 – 7, 1864, Sherman's failed attempt to break the railroad line into Atlanta from the east, heavy Union losses.

:* Battle of Jonesborough, August 31-September 1, 1864, Sherman successfully cut the railroad lines from the south into Atlanta.

She dies from typhoid in August 1864 after nursing Emmie Slattery.

Jean-Jacques Ampère ( 12 August 1800 – 27 March 1864 ) was a French philologist and man of letters.

The railway post office | RPO section of the Pioneer ZephyrIn response to Armstrong's request to experiment with the concept, the first railway post office ( RPO ) began operating on the Chicago and North Western Railway between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa, on August 28, 1864.

Roger David Casement (; 1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916 )— Sir Roger Casement Kt.

* Cavanaugh, Michael A., and William Marvel, The Petersburg Campaign: The Battle of the Crater: " The Horrid Pit ", June 25 – August 6, 1864 ( 1989 )

Confederate secret agent John Maxwell used a clockwork mechanism to detonate a large " horological torpedo " ( time bomb ) on August 9, 1864.

On August 9, 1864 Lieut.

By August 21, 1864 the Union Army had reached and captured the Weldon Railroad.

* August 3 – Stéphane Javelle, French astronomer ( b. 1864 )

* August 9 – Leon Gaumont, French film pioneer ( b. 1864 )

* August 5 – Phil May, English artist ( b. 1864 )

* August 30 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1864 )

* August 3 – Sir Roger Casement, Irish nationalist ( executed ) ( b. 1864 )

* August 12 – Jean-Jacques Ampère, French philologist, writer, and historian ( d. 1864 )

On August 5, 1864, Admiral David Farragut led a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and sealed off one of the last major Southern ports of the bay in the Battle of Mobile Bay, effectively cutting off another port for receiving supplies.

On August 29, 1864, Huggins was the first to take the spectrum of a planetary nebula when he analyzed NGC 6543.

* Major General, USA – 12 August 1864

Forrest led other raids that summer and fall, including a famous one into Union-held downtown Memphis in August 1864 ( the Second Battle of Memphis ), and another on a Union supply depot at Johnsonville, Tennessee, on October 3, 1864 ( the Battle of Johnsonville ), causing millions of dollars in damage.

* Raids in Tennessee, August – October 1864.

The Army closed the road from August 15 until September 24, 1864.

* Stéphanie Clotilde Louise Herminie Marie Charlotte, born at Laken on 11 May 1864, and died at the Archabbey of Pannonhalma in Győr-Moson-Sopron, Hungary, on 23 August 1945.

It was established on August 17, 1862, and abolished on May 11, 1864 ( the day Stuart was mortally wounded ), with cavalry units being assigned to the headquarters of the Army.

Doubleday was promoted to major on May 14, 1861, and commanded the Artillery Department in the Shenandoah Valley from June to August, and then the artillery for Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks's division of the Army of the Potomac.

He saw action in the First World War, where he was seriously wounded, and during the Second World War he commanded the Eighth Army from August 1942 in the Western Desert until the final Allied victory in Tunisia.

At the end of August the Assembly ordered Abancourt and the other prisoners at Orléans to be transferred to Paris with an escort commanded by Claude Fournier l ' Americain.

In the town, the Marine brigade, still under the command of the British admiral Sir John Leake, and the governor, Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt ( who had commanded the land forces in August ), and reinforced shortly before by a further 400 Royal Marines, held the fortress against repeated attacks.

The island's first known sighting by Europeans was on 21 August 1821 by the British ship Eliza Francis ( or Eliza Frances ) owned by Edward, Thomas and William Jarvis and commanded by Captain Brown.

Despite the only French naval victory ( during the Napoleonic Wars ) of Battle of Grand Port on 19 and 20 August 1810 by a fleet commanded by Pierre Bouvet, Mauritius was captured on 3 December 1810 by the British under Commodore Josias Rowley.

* August 26 – First Anglo-Dutch War – Battle of Plymouth: A fleet from the Commonwealth of England attacks an outward-bound convoy of the United Provinces, escorted by 23 men-of-war and 6 fire ships commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter.

* August 30 – Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland: Vlieter Incident: A squadron of the Batavian Republic's navy, commanded by Rear-Admiral Samuel Story, surrenders to the British Royal Navy under Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell near Wieringen without joining action.

* August 20 – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Saragossa: The Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by the Marquis de Bay is soundly defeated by the forces of the Habsburg Monarchy under Guido Starhemberg and their allies.

He declined to help Napoleon Bonaparte stage his coup d ' état of November 1799, but nevertheless accepted employment from the Consulate, and from April 1800 to 18 August 1801 commanded the army in the Vendée.

* August 27 – Battle of the Siritsa River: Livonian Order, commanded by Wolter von Plettenberg, defeated an army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and Pskov Republic.

* August 29 – Battle of Les Espagnols sur Mer off Winchelsea: An English fleet personally commanded by King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet.

The French right wing, commanded by MacMahon and accompanied by Napoleon III himself, attempted to relieve Bazaine but was itself surrounded and trapped by the Germans in the disastrous Battle of Sedan on August 31.

In the battle of the Lisaine, Bourbaki's men failed to break through German lines commanded by General August von Werder.

Unit 101 ( Hebrew: יחידה 101 ) was a special forces unit of the Israeli Defense Forces ( IDF ), founded and commanded by Ariel Sharon on orders from Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in August 1953.

On August 15, 1944, airborne units of the 6th Army Group provisional airborne division, commanded by US Major General Robert T. Frederick, opened Operation Dragoon, the invasion of Southern France, with a dawn assault.

Buchan, a leader with an international reputation, commanded the large Scottish army but both he and Douglas fell at the Battle of Verneuil in August 1424 and the Scottish host routed.

It was the scene of the Battle of Zorndorf, in which the Prussians under Frederick the Great fought the Russians commanded by Wilhelm Fermor, on August 25, 1758.

On 26 August 1652 Ayscue attacked an outward-bound Dutch convoy commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter but was beaten back in the Battle of Plymouth and relieved of his command.

Reappointed as warden of the east march, he commanded the English forces against James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas, at the Battle of Otterburn on 10 August 1388, where he was captured, but soon ransomed for a fee of 7000 marks.

Koch commanded the Majdanek camp for only one year ; he was relieved from his duties after 86 Soviet POWs escaped from the camp in August 1942.

Following deep reconnaissance missions in the region by the 3rd Cavalry Group and units of the 1139 Engineer Combat Group, and after heavy fighting in and around the city, Chartres was liberated, on 18 August 1944, by the U. S. 5th Infantry and the 7th Armored Divisions belonging to the XX Corps of the 3rd US Army commanded by General George S. Patton.

The French forces under Jean-Andoche Junot were defeated by the Anglo-Portuguese forces commanded by Sir Arthur Wellesley at Vimeiro on August 21, and found themselves almost cut off from retreat.

The Randall burial plot near the William Floyd Parkway includes the grave of LT Stephen Randall ( 1736 – 1818 ), patriot of the American Revolution and a Suffolk County Militia veteran of the Battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776 as part of a company of Suffolk County Minutemen commanded by Captain Daniel Mulford, his wife Elizabeth Swezey ( 1747 – 1834 ) and several descendants.

* William Hood Simpson ( May 18, 1888 – August 15, 1980 ), a lieutenant general commanded the U. S. Ninth Army in northern Europe, during World War II.