Timeline - 1864

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January 19, 1864 - a new pro-union Arkansas government approves an anti-slavery constitution.








February 14, 1864 - Meridian, Mississippi is destroyed by General Sherman's army.

February 20, 1864 - A Union attack is turned back at Olustee, and Florida stays in the Confederacy.




March 9, 1864 - Grant is promoted to lieutenant general and given supreme command of all Union armies.








April 12, 1864 - Rebels overrun Pillow, Tenn.

April 17, 1864 Grant stops prisoner exchanges, cutting off a crucial source of manpower for the South.






May 4, 1864 - The Wilderness Campaign begins, and lasts for a month. One of, if not the longest and bloodiest battle of the Civil War. The Union smashes its way through towards Richmond, losing twice as many soldiers as the South, but still advancing.





June 10, 1864 - The Confederate Congress widens Draft eligibility to men age 17 to 50.








July 11, 1864 - General Jubal A. Early and 14,000 Confederates enter the District of Columbia, panicking its citizens, but reinforcements arrive in time and Jubal retreats.

July 30, 1864 - A huge crater blasted through Confederate lines due to Union engineers' efforts.



August 5, 1864 - Damning it's torpedo defenses, Admiral David Farragut captures Mobile, Alabama.








September 1, 1864 - Sherman takes Atlanta.








October 13, 1864 - Maryland voters approve a new constitution providing for the absolution of slavery.









November 8, 1864 - Lincoln is reelected into Presidency by less than half a million votes.

November 14, 1864 - Sherman, at the head of his army, leaves a 300 mile trail of destuction in his wake marching south to the Atlantic.