The chronology
1864
78 published events.
Month by month
- January 1864Judge David Noggle's service ended and William Penn Lyon succeeded him as judge of the First Judicial Circuit.The regionGrade A · 1 independent source
- January 6, 1864Beloit Commandery No. 6, Knights Templar, was chartered; the two histories disagree on the date.BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
- January 15, 1864The Janesville weekly newspaper's old name (the Gazette) was restored and its form changed.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- January 16, 1864The Clinton post office name, changed to Ogden in 1857, was changed back to Clinton.BeloitGrade A · 2 independent sources
- January 28, 1864The Thirteenth battery left Wisconsin for New Orleans.The regionGrade A · 1 independent source
- March 1864H. Allen became principal of the normal department of the university.BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
- April 1864Principal Samuel P. Lockwood and a large number of Janesville high school boys left the school room for volunteer service in Company A, Fortieth regiment; the histories differ on the timing.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- April 1864The governors of five states, including Wisconsin, persuaded the United States government to accept 80,000 volunteers for 100 days' service.Nation and worldGrade A · 1 independent source
- April 6, 1864City officers were elected in Janesville, including John Mitchell as mayor.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- April 21, 1864Barret H. Smith announced his severance from the Journal and Courier.BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
- May 11, 1864The Second regiment was detached from the Iron Brigade and employed as provost guard of the Fourth Division, Fifth Army Corps.Nation and worldGrade A · 1 independent source
- May 17, 1864Company A, Fortieth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, left Janesville for Madison.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- June 14, 1864The Fortieth Regiment started from Madison for Memphis, Tennessee.The regionGrade A · 1 independent source
- June 20, 1864Beloit College boys of Company B were in camp at Camp Ray.BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
- July 2, 1864The Second regiment was mustered out of service at Madison, and the remnant of Company D returned to Rock County.The regionGrade A · 1 independent source
- July 7, 1864The Thirteenth regiment left the Mississippi river for Texas.Nation and worldGrade A · 1 independent source
- July 16, 1864The Thirteenth regiment went into camp at Green Lake.The regionGrade A · 1 independent source
- September 1, 1864The railroad of the consolidated Galena and North-Western companies was completed to Madison.The regionGrade A · 1 independent source
- September 19, 1864The draft was enforced in Rock County, and the battle of Winchester, Virginia, was fought under Sheridan.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- September 20, 1864Alexander Kerr, Sterne Rogers, H. A. and others acted on the agitating questions of their day.Nation and worldGrade A · 1 independent source
- October 5, 1864Rock County soldiers of the First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery were killed and wounded at Allatoona, Georgia, including Marcus Amsden, C. Fogle, W. Bartow, David C. Davy, Alva P. Hamilton, W. Chase, Joseph W. Chase, Samuel H. Doolittle and others.Nation and worldGrade A · 2 independent sources
- November 1864After the capture of Atlanta, the Twenty-second regiment (Twentieth Army Corps) proceeded to Savannah.Nation and worldGrade A · 1 independent source
- November 17, 1864The acting commissioner of the general land office, by order of the war department, offered the Fort Crawford reservation at public auction at La Crosse.The regionGrade A · 1 independent source
- November 19, 1864Officers and men of the Second Wisconsin (including Captains Edward Ruger and Edwin E. Woodman and Lieutenants James L. Murray and George C. Brown) were mustered out.Nation and worldGrade A · 1 independent source
During 1864
Events the sources date only to the year.
- 1864The Janesville milling property fell into the hands of Barnes & Hodson.Rock CountyGrade A · 2 independent sources
- 1864Rock County men were elected to office, including Mr. Richardson to the legislature and a mayor of Beloit.Rock CountyGrade A · 2 independent sources
- 1864The Beloit College Commencement of 1864 was omitted because the entire senior class and the professor of rhetoric were in camp.BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1864The Beloit branch railroad was pushed through to Madison, reaching that city.The regionGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1864Judgments were obtained against the Sugar River Valley railroad company, and its right of way, grading and depot grounds were sold.BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1864A railroad company built lines from Columbus to Portage and from Brookfield to Milwaukee.The regionGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1864About 350 Pottawattomies came back from Kansas to northern Wisconsin.The regionGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1864St. Patrick's church in Janesville was completed, having been building for some time.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1864Professor Blaisdell was transferred from the chair of rhetoric to that of philosophy at Beloit College.BeloitGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1864Wisconsin's judicial circuits were changed: Crawford and Richland were made part of the fifth circuit, and an eleventh circuit was formed.The regionGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1864The Janesville telegraph wires later owned by the Western Union Company were erected by the Illinois & Mississippi Company.Rock CountyGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1864Congress made a land grant to Wisconsin to aid in building a railroad from Berlin, Doty's Island, Fond du Lac, or Portage, by way of Stevens Point, to Bayfield or Superior.Nation and worldGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1864Brockway College at Ripon became known as Ripon College.The regionGrade A · 1 independent source