The Third Year in
the War Between the States

A printable Civil War chronology from The Southern Rebellion (1867) listing the major events that took place during 1864.

As the year commenced, President Lincoln called for an additional 500,000 men to be drafted; General Ulysses S. Grant assumed command of the Army of the Potomac; Admiral Farragut sailed victoriously out of Mobile Bay and assorted New York hotels were set ablaze by rebel agents.