What Happened in June 1864

Historical Events

Battle of Cold Harbor

Jun 3 General Robert E. Lee wins his last victory of the US Civil War at the Battle of Cold Harbor

Jun 5 Battle of Piedmont, Virginia (Augusta City)
Jun 6 Battle of Lake Chicot, Arkansas (Dutch Bayou)

Lincoln Renominated

Jun 7 Abraham Lincoln renominated for US President by the Republican Party

Jun 10 Union victory at the Battle of Kellar's Bridge, Kentucky (Licking River)
Jun 11 300' (90 m) of Meigg's Wharf, in San Francisco, washed away in storm
Jun 11 Battle at Cynthiana Kentucky: General Hobsons unit caught
Jun 11 CSS Alabama, a Confederate screw sloop-of-war, arrives in port at Cherbourg, France
Jun 11 The Battle of Trevilian Station, the bloodiest and largest all-cavalry battle of the American Civil War, begins in Louisa County, Virginia
Jun 12 Confederate forces of Jubal Early attack Fort Stevens, barely 4 miles from the White House, with Abraham Lincoln observing the battle
Jun 12 Skirmish at Mcafee's Cross Road, Georgia, about 57 die in battle
Jun 12 The Battle of Trevilian Station, the bloodiest and largest all-cavalry battle of the American Civil War in Louisa County ends with Confederate tactical victory and Union successful retreat
Jun 14 US Union warship USS Kearsarge appears off Cherbourg
Jun 15 -17] Skirmish at Gilgal Church, Georgia

Battle of Petersburg

Jun 15 Battle of Petersburg begins as General Ulysses S. Grant assaults the Confederate line at the important Southern rail center of Petersburg

Union General and US President Ulysses S. Grant

Jun 15 Capt Mendell begins building 640m long ponton bridge over James River, Virginia
Jun 15 Robert E. Lee's home area (Arlington, Virginia) becomes a military cemetery
Jun 15 US Congress passes legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers
Jun 16 Battle of Lynchburg, Virginia; Confederate troops fend off forces of Union general David Hunter
Jun 16 Skirmish at Golgotha, Georgia
Jun 17 -18] Confederate troops pull back out Solves/lost Mt, Georgia
Jun 17 640m long ponton bridge over James River, Virginia finished
Jun 17 Confederate General John Bell Hood replaces General Johnston as head of the Army of Tennessee
Jun 17 Skirmish at Mud Creek/Noyes's (Nose) Creek, Georgia
Jun 18 Siege of Petersburg: Ulysses S. Grant ends four days of assaults and begins a nine month siege
Jun 18 The January Uprising, an insurrection in Russia's Kingdom of Poland aimed at restoration of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is quashed after 1-1/2 years
Jun 19 CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France
Jun 19 Skirmish at Pine Knob, Georgia
Jun 20 Battle of Kinston, North Carolina and Battle of Abingdon, Virginia
Jun 20 Skirmish at Lattermore's Mills/Powder Springs, Georgia
Jun 21 New Zealand Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends
Jun 22 Battle of Ream's Station, Virginia (Wilson's Raid)
Jun 22 Skirmish at Culp's (Kulp's) House, Georgia
Jun 25 Battle of Petersburg: Union forces begin digging tunnels under Confederate lines
Jun 25 Horse tramway in The Hague, Netherlands opens
Jun 27 Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia: Colonel Sherman makes unsuccessful frontal attack on Confederate defensive lin

Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

Jun 27 US Civil War: Atlanta Campaign - Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia: Union General Sherman makes unsuccessful frontal attack on Confederate defense

Jun 29 Canada's worst railway accident: Grand Trunk Railway train crashes onto a barge on the Richelieu River killing 100 people
Jun 29 Samuel Crowther, bishop of Niger, becomes the first Black bishop of the Church of England
Jun 30 Yosemite Grant Act signed by President Abraham Lincoln bestowing 200,000 acres to the state of California, establishes America's first state-controlled park [1]

Events in 1864

Famous Birthdays

Jun 2 Ben Webster, British actor (Old Curiosity Shop), born in London, England (d. 1947)
Jun 3 Ransom Eli Olds, American auto (Oldsmobile) & truck (REO) manufacturer, born in Geneva, Ohio (d. 1950)
Jun 11 Jean de Merode, Belgian lieutenant colonel, Grand Marshal of the Court of Belgium, and Prince de Merode, born in Paris, France (d. 1933)

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Jun 11 German composer (Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote), born in Munich, Germany

Jun 13 Dwight B. Waldo, American educator (first President of Western Michigan University), born in Arcade, New York (d. 1939)
Jun 13 Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and politician who first coined the term "geopolitics", born in Torsö, Sweden (d. 1922)

Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915)

Jun 14 German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (Alzheimer Disease), born in Marktbreit, Bavaria

Jun 15 Guy Ropartz [Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz], French composer, born in Guingamp, France (d. 1955)
Jun 20 Pier Pander, Dutch sculptor, born in Drachten, Friesland (d. 1919)
Jun 21 Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss art historian, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1945)
Jun 22 Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (work on relativity - Minkowski spacetime), born in Aleksota, Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire (d. 1909)
Jun 25 Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physicist and chemist (Nobel 1920), born in Briesen, West Prussia (d. 1941)
Jun 29 Anton Beer-Walbrun, German composer, born in Kohlberg, Kingdom of Württemberg (now Germany) (d. 1929)
Jun 29 Ashutosh Mukherjee, Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician described as the "Banglar Bagh" (Tiger of Bengal), born in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (d. 1924)
Jun 29 Pietro Bonfante, Italian lawyer (Roman law) and historian, born in Poggio Mirteto, Italy (d. 1932)
Jun 29 Wilbert Robinson, American Baseball HOF catcher (Philadelphia A's, Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Cardinals) and manager (Baltimore Orioles, Brooklyn Robins), born in Bolton, Massachusetts (d. 1934)

Born in 1864

Famous Deaths

Jun 1 Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (b. 1812)
Jun 1 Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of African Americans, assassinated in his home by white terrorists in SC
Jun 2 George Pierce Doles, US businessman/Confed brigadier general, dies at 34
Jun 3 James P. McMahon, US Union colonel (164th NY), dies in the Battle of Cold Harbour at about 29
Jun 3 Peter A. Porter, US Union colonel (8th NY), dies in the Battle of Cold Harbour at 36
Jun 4 Nassau William Senior, British economist (New Poor Law 1834), dies at 73
Jun 5 William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at 39
Jun 14 Leonidas Polk, American bishop soldier (Confederate Army major-general), killed in action in Battle of Pine Mt at 58
Jun 15 Haller Nutt, American rich Southern Plantation owner (Longwood house - largest octagonal house in the US), dies at 48
Jun 19 George Lincoln Prescott, American Brigadier General (Union Army), dies of injuries at 35
Jun 26 Tom Hyer, American bare-knuckle boxer (American heavyweight champion 1841-51), dies of edema at 45
Jun 27 Charles Garrison Harker, US Union-brigadier general, dies at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain battle at 26

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