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  • Boalsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Monday Jul 4, 1864
    Memorial day

    Boalsburg ladies

    Boalsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Monday Jul 4, 1864

    On July 4, 1864, ladies decorated soldiers' graves according to local historians in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania. Boalsburg promotes itself as the birthplace of Memorial Day. However, no reference to this event existed until the printing of the History of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers in 1904.




  • U.S.
    Jul, 1864
    Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

    Wade–Davis Bill

    U.S.
    Jul, 1864

    The forgiving tone of the president's plan, plus the fact that he implemented it by presidential directive without consulting Congress, incensed Radical Republicans, who countered with a more stringent plan. Their proposal for Southern reconstruction, the Wade–Davis Bill, passed both houses of Congress in July 1864, but was pocket vetoed by the president and never took effect.




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