1864 May Am Civil War Gazette

The Extra!!! Edition of the American Civil War Gazette contains back issues as well as additional articles that did not appear in the daily edition.

Highlights of the May 1864 Edition:

- Radical Democracy Convention meets in Ohio and nominates Fremont for president
- Nomination of John C. Fremont and John Cochrane for President and Vice-President, by the Cleveland Convention

- Wilderness Campaign {Overland Campaign} begins (Virginia)
- Battle of the Wilderness
- Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
- Battle of Yellow Tavern
- General J.E.B. Stuart (CSA) is mortally wounded
- Battle of Meadow Bridge
- Battle of North Anna
- Battle of Telegraph Road Bridge
- Battle of Jericho Mills
- Battle of Ox Ford
- Battle of Quarles Mill
- Battle of Hanover Junction
- Battle of Wilson's Wharf
- Battle of Haw's Shop
- Battle of Totopotomoy Creek
- Battle of Old Church
- Battle of Cold Harbor
- Swinton's detailed account from the battlefield is published

- Sherman's Atlanta Campaign (Georgia) begins
- Gen. Sherman reports that Gen. Thomas has occupied Tunnel Hill, Ga., and that the Confederates had taken position at Buzzards' Roost Pass, north of Dalton, Ga.
- Battle of Rocky Face Ridge
- General engagement at Mill Creek Gap, Ga.
- Battle of Resaca
- Battle of Adairsville
- Battle of New Hope Church
- Battle of Pickett's Mill
- Battle of Dallas, Georgia

- Red River Campaign (Louisiana, Arkansas) concludes
- Gen. Kautz forced the Blackwater, burnt the railroad bridge at Stony Creek, cutting Beauregard's forces in two
- Battle of Mansura (Louisiana)
- Battle of Yellow Bayou (Louisiana)

- Secretary of War Stanton's telegrams to Maj-Gen. Dix are published in the New York Times
- Details the Battle of the Wilderness, Sherman's Atlanta Campaign and the Red River Campaign

- Camden Expedition concludes (Arkansas)
- Gen. Steele's army (USA) forty miles from Little Rock, Arkansas. His cavalry reach the city.

- Operations Against New Bern and Plymouth (North Carolina) continue
- Naval engagement between the Confederate ram Albermarle and Union fleet near the mouth of the Roanoke River
- Battle of Albemarle Sound

- Bermuda Hundred Campaign (outside Richmond, Virginia)
- Battle of Port Walthall Junction
- Battle of Swift Creek
- Battle of Chester Station
- Battle of Proctor's Creek
- Battle of Ware Bottom Church
- Another artillery attack on Butler's forces

- Crook-Averell Raid on the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad
- Battle of Cloyd's Mountain
- Battle of Cove Mountain

- Virginia
- U.S. forces occupy West Point, Virginia
- Skirmish at Thoroughfare Gap, Va.
- Burnside's cavalry attacked the Confederates on their passage through the Gap
- A hard fight near Hanover Court-house, Va.
- Milford reached by Union troops
- Union troops held possession of Fredericksburgh, Va.

- Shenandoah Valley Campaigns of 1864
- Lynchburg Campaign begins (Virginia)
- Battle of New Market

- Forrest's Defense of Mississippi
- Yazoo City Expedition
- Fight at Bolivar; Sturgis' cavalry encounter Forrest's forces
- Battle of Benton
- Battle of Luce's Plantation
- Battle of Vaughn Station

- Kentucky
- Confederate raid into Princeton, Kentucky

- Colorado War (Colorado Territory)
- Killing of Cheyenne Chiefs Lean Bear and Star

- Montana Territory is organized

- U.S. Navy
- Death of Commodore W.D. Porter
- Secretary of the Navy orders Admiral Wilkes to be reprimanded and suspended for insubordination

- Gold Hoax
- New York World and New-York Journal of Commerce fake publication of Lincoln's 400,000 troop conscription driving gold prices up

- Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist and author of The Scarlet Letter, dies in New Hampshire