On November 29, 1864, more than a decade before Colorado became a state and long before Kiowa County was formed, a massacre of Native Americans, a group of old men, women, and children, occurred on Sand Creek that initially was greeted as a victory in the Colorado War against hostile Indians ; within months, Congressional inquiries revealed the truth, and a national scandal erupted.

By 1862, Minnesota had established Congressional districts, and in that year he was re-elected from Minnesota's 1st congressional district ; and also in 1864 and 1866.

First Lieutenant Frank D. Baldwin, Company D, 19th Michigan Infantry, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of Peachtree Creek, Georgia, July 12, 1864.

For leading one of his brigades in a successful counterattack during a critical moment in the fighting at the Battle of Franklin on November 30, 1864, the President of the United States on behalf of the United States Congress presented him with the Congressional Medal of Honor on March 29, 1893.

PVT Samuel Grimshaw of the XIV Army Corps, USA was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions against a Confederate Artillery Battery along the Sandtown ( Cascase Road ) during the main attack on 6 August 1864.

An exceptionally astute politician deeply involved with power issues in each state, he reached out to War Democrats and managed his own re-election in the 1864 presidential election.

Passage of the proposed amendment became part of the Republican / Unionist platform in the election of 1864.

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.

* United States presidential election, 1864

As the 1864 Presidential election drew near, the Confederacy's prospects for victory were ebbing and the tide of war increasingly favored the North.

* November 8 – U. S. presidential election, 1864: Abraham Lincoln is reelected in an overwhelming victory over George B. McClellan.

" With respect to the Presidential election of 1864, Garfield did not consider Lincoln particularly worthy of re-election, but no other viable alternative was available.

In the United States presidential election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln was re-elected as president.

Wilhelm, Duke of Urach ( 1864 – 1928 ), had the distinction of being under consideration for five thrones at different times: that of King of Wurttemberg in the 1890s, as the senior agnate by primogeniture when it became likely that King William II would die without male descendants, leaving as heir Duke Albrecht of Wurttemberg, a more distantly related, albeit dynastic, royal kinsman ; Prince of Albania in 1913 ; Prince of Monaco as the next heir by proximity of blood following the Hereditary Prince Louis during a succession crisis resolved in July 1918 ; Grand Duke of Alsace-Lorraine in 1917, and his election by the Taryba as King of Lithuania in July 1918.

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.

After he was relieved of command, McClellan became the unsuccessful Democratic Party nominee opposing Lincoln in the 1864 presidential election.

In the 1864 Presidential election, President Lincoln won the county handily against Gen. McClellan.

The issue of miscegenation, raised by the opponents of Abraham Lincoln, featured prominently in the election campaign of 1864.

A political cartoon from the 1864 election depicting William Pitt Fessenden | Secretary Fessenden of the Lincoln administration running " Chase's Mill " at left to flood the country with Greenbacks

The armies remained unengaged for over a month, causing political consternation in the North as the 1864 election drew near.

* 1864-U. S. presidential election, 1864

In his general election campaign, Maddox equated the Callaway Republicans to the American Civil War and the 1864 March to the Sea waged in Georgia by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.

Copperheadism was a major issue in the 1864 presidential election ; its strength increased when Union armies were doing poorly, and decreased when they won great victories.

In the 1864 election, Everett campaigned extensively for Lincoln and the " Union " Party, as the Republicans called themselves that year.

Beginning with his first election as governor of Maine, continuing to the end of his life, even as he suffered continual pain and discomfort from his wounds of 1864, Chamberlain was active in the Grand Army of the Republic and made many return visits to Gettysburg, giving speeches at soldiers ' reunions.

In the 1864 Presidential election the Republican Party of incumbent President Abraham Lincoln ran as the National Union Party or Union Party.

* National Union Party ( United States ), the name of the ticket on which Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson ran in the 1864 United States presidential election.

It remained in place until 1858, when the Crimean War removed the two countries from Russian influence and confirmed the rule by several European powers first established by the Treaty of Paris ; the Paris Convention of 1858 remained the governing document following the election of Alexandru Ioan Cuza as Domnitor over the united countries ( 1859 ), but was replaced by Cuza's own organic law, entitled Statutul dezvoltător al Convenţiei de la Paris (" Statute expanding the Paris Convention "), in 1864.

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

Lead and silver were discovered in the southern part of the Groom Range in 1864, and the English Groome Lead Mines Limited company financed the Conception Mines in the 1870s, giving the district its name ( nearby mines included Maria, Willow and White Lake ).

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

In 1864 Holstein became subordinate to Prussia, which soon afterwards established the district of Oldenburg in Holstein.

By July 1864, 4500 claims had been recorded in the that district.

* Thomas J. Scully ( 1864 – 1921 ) represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district from 1911 to 1921 and served as mayor of South Amboy in 1909 and 1910, and again in 1921.

In 1864, Fuller operated the mine, which produced 23, 827 tons of coal, making it that year the fourth largest mine in the Plymouth district.

When the Alabama was finally sunk off the coast of Normandy by the USS Kearsarge in 1864, prospectors sympathetic to the North named a mining district, a mountain pass, a mountain peak, and a town after the Kearsarge.

In 1864, the western island district ( population: 2, 438 ) was separated to become the new municipality of Herøy.

File: Stamp Mexico 1864 1r eagle. jpg | Mexico, 1856: Guanajuato district overprint.

The peace agreement of 1864 had been accepted by most of the Māori of the Tauranga district and the area was relatively quiet.

* Charles Benedict Calvert ( 1808 – 1864 ), a U. S. Congressman from the sixth district of Maryland, serving one term from 1861 – 1863.

File: 542 Broadway. jpg | In New York City's SoHo district ( 542 Broadway, 1864 )

These bodies, one for each district and another for each province or government, were created by Alexander II in 1864.

In 1812 most of the Dagestani Lezgins became part of the educated in southern Dagestan, a Russian protectorate Kyurinskoe Khanate, which was transformed in 1864 into Kyurinsky District, and the rest-in the Samur district, most of the Azerbaijani Lezgins-in the Kuban district of Baku province.

Stores for the township and district stations were unloaded at the wharves at Hay, and the steamers and barges loaded with wool-bales for the return trip ( usually to Echuca, which by 1864 had been connected by rail to Melbourne ).

In 1864, Yavatmal District ( initially known as Southeast Berar district and later Wun district ) was separated.

In 1864, Yavatmal along with some other talukas was formed into the district initially called Southeast Berar and later renamed Wani.

In 1864, East Berar district was divided into two districts: Amraoti and Southeast Berar district ( which was first renamed as Wun district and then in 1905, Yeotmal district ), with headquarters at Yeotmal.