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Movie history events from 1864
The siege of Petersburg, where Inman becomes a deserter. (Petersburg) (Cold Mountain)
Hercule Poirot born. (Belgium) (Death on the Nile)
9th February: Union General George Armstrong Custer marries Elizabeth Bacon. (Monroe, Michigan) (Hard Ride, The )
1st March: President Lincoln nominates Ulysses S. Grant for the newly revived rank of lieutenant general. (Lincoln)
9th April: General Ulysses S Grant surrendered to General Robert E Lee. (just outside Washington D.C.) (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
11th May: Confederate Cavalry General J.E.B. Stuart is mortally wounded. (Richmond, Virginia) (Gettysburg)
18th June: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is wounded. (Petersburg, Virginia) (Gettysburg)
6th July: Confederate General Jubal Early's troops cross the Potomac River and capture Hagerstown, Maryland. (Hagerstown, Maryland) (Gettysburg)
17th July: John Bell Hood takes command of the Army of Tennessee. (Gettysburg)
1st August: Union General Ulysses S. Grant appoints General Philip Sheridan commander of the Army of the Shenandoah. (Abraham Lincoln)
5th August: David Farragut leads his flotilla through the Confederate defenses at Mobile, Alabama, to seal one of the last major Southern ports. (Mobile, Alabama) (Hearts in Bondage )
28th August: Union General Alfred Terry is promoted from Brigadier General to Major General of the United State Volunteers . (The Legend of Custer)