HISTORICAL DATA-1864:









 

    

  •  JANUARY

  •  FEBRUARY:    On February 5 of this year the men of the 1st Minnesota Regiment receive orders to return to their home state for deactivation from Federal service. The Regiment has taken part in over twenty major battles during the Civil War, and suffered many casualties. In a farewell address to the troops, Brigadier General Charles P. Adams reminds them that they were the first regiment to have agreed to a three years' voluntary enlistment, and that when the regiment was first organized it numbered a thousand men. He gave tribute to the more than seven hundred total casualties which the regiment has suffered during the war, including over two hundred and fifty deaths.  (SOURCE:  The Story of the Famous 34th Infantry Division, by Lieutenant Colonel John H. Hougen, Reprinted by The Battery Press, Nashville, Tennessee, 1979, unpaginated-Chapter II The Civil War).

  •  MARCH 

  •  APRIL:    

  •  MAY

  •  JUNE

  •  JULY:    At some time during this month the Radical Republicans in Congress in Wahington, D.C. pass the Wade-Davis bill, which seeks to make more difficult the readmission of former Confederate states into the union. It calls for the calling of a constitutional convention only after a majority of the voters in a southern state have taken a loyalty oath and it bars all Confederate officials and anyone who had "voluntarily borne arms against the United States" from voting in the election or serving at the convention. The new state constitutions must bar slavery and repudiate all Confederate debts.  (Source: The American Nation...Since 1865-Second Edition ((Paperback)), John A. Garraty, pg.10).

  •   AUGUST:    At about this time, in an effort to counter the effects of the current shortage of small coins, the United States of America's  Federal Treasury issues large quantities of legal-tender paper money in fractional denominations and authorizes the use of postage stamps (which are made without glue) as legal tender in small transactions; city governments, and business houses, without legal sanction, print a variety of paper tokens often called shinplasters.  (Source:  Money and Banking-Third Edition-Raymond P. Kent, pg. 78).

  •  SEPTEMBER

  •  OCTOBER

  •  NOVEMBER

  •  DECEMBER

  •  WHOLE YEAR:    All during this year Stephan Thernstrom is continuing with his very long-term study of the workingmen of Newburyport, Massachusetts in the United States of America.  (Source:  The American Nation...Since 1865-Second Edition ((Paperback)), John A. Garraty, pg.112).

  • WHOLE YEAR:    During this year more wooden pipelines are being built in the Oil Regions of Pennsylvania to ship oil to the local railheads. There is still much public scoffing and ridicule about the idea.  (Source: The Prize by Daniel Yergin ((paperback)), pg. 33).    

  • NO SPECIFIC DATE:  At some time during this year Pope Pius IX suggests to the Curia in Rome that the existing conglomeration of Church laws, regulations and decrees be formalized and codified into a coherent legal form, but the idea is not immediately pursued because of the initial preparations for the First Vatican Council of all the leaders of the world-wide Church.  (Source:  Hitler's Pope  The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell  Penguin Books ((paperback)) 2000, pg. 41).

  • NO SPECIFIC DATE:    Also at some time during this year in Europe, war breaks out between Prussia and Denmark. As a result of this war, the duchies of Schleswig and of Holstein are added to German-ruled areas.  (Source:  THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer  Fawcett Crest  New York ((paperback)) June 1989, pg. 139).

  • NO SPECIFIC DATE:    In the United States of America at some time during this year the sleeping car for railroads is invented by George Pullman, but it does not really come into its own right away, as it lacks a really efficient braking system.  (SOURCE:  The American Nation...Since 1865-Second Edition ((Paperback)), John A. Garraty, pg. 89).

  • NO SPECIFIC DATE:    Also in the United States of America at some time during this year Nevada Territory is hurriedly admitted to the Union before it would normally be eligible for admission. This is done in order to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution, and to help in the reelection of President Abraham Lincoln.  (SOURCE:  The American Nation...Since 1865-Second Edition ((Paperback)), John A. Garraty, pg. 72). 

  • NO SPECIFIC DATE:    At some time during this year the United States Congress authorizes a grant of 40 sections of land per mile of track laid by the Northern Pacific Railroad. When the so-called "indemnity zone" is included, homesteaders in fact are barred from an area 100 miles wide, running all the way from Lake Superior to the Pacific Ocean.  (Source: The American Nation...Since 1865-Second Edition ((Paperback)), John A. Garraty, pg. 71).

      

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