1864 in the United States

Events from the year 1864 in the United States. == Incumbents == === Federal government === President: Abraham Lincoln (R-Illinois) Vice President: Hannibal Hamlin (R-Maine) Chief Justice: Roger B. Taney (Maryland) (until October 12) Salmon P. Chase (Ohio) (starting December 15) Speaker of the House of Representatives: Schuyler Colfax (R-Indiana) Congress: 38th ==== State governments ==== == Events == === January === January – Long Walk of the Navajo: Bands of Navajo led by the U.S. Army are relocated from their traditional lands in eastern Arizona Territory and western New Mexico Territory to Fort Sumner in the Pecos River valley.

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