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"Beautiful Dreamer" is a parlor song composed by American songwriter Stephen Foster and published posthumously in 1864. Written in a 9/8 waltz tempo, the piece features a gentle melody and lyrics that speak of a lover serenading a sleeping woman. It was created during a period when sheet music was t...

Lewis Carroll's handwritten and hand-illustrated manuscript of 'Alice's Adventures Underground' (1864), the original gift to Alice Liddell that preceded the published 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865), held at the British Library.

"La belle Hélène" is an opéra bouffe in three acts by Jacques Offenbach, featuring a witty French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Premiering at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris in 1864, the operetta is a satirical spoof of the Greek myth surrounding the abduction of Helen of Troy. The...

"La Cagnotte" is an 1864 vaudeville play written by Eugène Labiche and Alfred Delacour. The comedic farce follows a group of provincial gamblers whose pooled lottery winnings lead to escalating misadventures during a trip to Paris. It serves as a classic example of 19th-century French theatrical com...

The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House was a major engagement of the American Civil War fought from May 8 to May 21, 1864, in Virginia. As part of Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign, Union forces engaged Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in a prolonged two-week battle characterized by intense trenc...

The Battle of Atlanta was fought on 22 July 1864 during the Union Atlanta Campaign in the American Civil War. Union forces under William T. Sherman attacked Confederate troops commanded by John Bell Hood southeast of the city, with the fighting centered on attempts to break the Confederate defenses...

The Battle of Cold Harbor took place in Virginia from 31 May to 12 June 1864 during the American Civil War. Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee held fortified positions against the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by George G. Meade under Ulysses S. Grant. A major Union assault on 3 June fail...

The Battle of the Wilderness was fought in Virginia from 5 to 7 May 1864 during the American Civil War. It was the first major engagement between Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces and Robert E. Lee's Confederate army after Grant took overall command of Union operations. Dense woodland restricted movem...