1864

Events

 * March 9:
 * Ulysses Grant becomes Commanding General of the United States Army
 * August 23:
 * Horace Gray becomes Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
 * December 15:
 * Salmon Chase becomes Chief Justice of the United States

Deaths

 * October 12:
 * Roger Brooke Taney - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1777)
 * December 31:
 * George Mifflin Dallas - 11th Vice President of the United States (b. 1792)