Today in History for Year 1862

Months in Year 1862: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 285

Jan 1st - 1st US income tax (3% of incomes > $600, 5% of incomes > $10,000)
Jan 1st - Battle of Ft McRee, FL Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)
Jan 3rd - Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester
Jan 4th - Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath
Jan 7th - Battle of Manassas Junction, VA
Jan 7th - Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney, WV
Jan 10th - Battle of Big Sandy River, KY (Middle Creek)
Jan 10th - Battle of Romney, WV
Jan 17th - -Jan 22nd) BBT Ft Henry, TN by USS Lexington
Jan 18th - Confederate Territory of Arizona forms
Jan 19th - Battle of Mill Springs, KY (Fishing Creek, Logan's Crossroads)
Jan 22nd - Confederate government raises premium for volunteers from $10 to $20
Jan 23rd - Agoston Haraszthy, 1st vintner in Sonoma Valley, California imports 10,000 grape vine cuttings
Jan 24th - Romania principality arises under King Alexander Cuza
Jan 24th - Bucharest proclaimed capital of Romania.
Jan 26th - Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order
Jan 30th - US Navy's 1st ironclad warship (Monitor) launched
Jan 31st - Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius
Feb 1st - Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of Republic"
US President Ulysses S. Grant Feb 6th - Gen Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee
Feb 6th - Naval Engagement at Tenn River-USS Conestago vs CSS Appleton Belle
Feb 6th - Ulysses S. Grant begins military campaign in Mississippi
Feb 7th - Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island NC
Feb 8th - Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound
Feb 8th - Opera "Lily of Killarney," premieres in London
Feb 10th - Dutch 2nd government of Thorbecke forms
Feb 13th - -Feb 16th) Siege of Ft Donelson TN
Feb 14th - Galena, 1st US iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Conn
Feb 15th - Grant's major assault on Ft Donelson, Tennessee
Feb 16th - Ft Donelson captured by Gen Grant (1,400 confederates surrender)
Feb 21st - Confederate Constitution & presidency are declared permanent
Feb 21st - Texas Rangers win Confederate victory at Battle of Val Verde, NM
Feb 25th - Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving & Printing
Feb 25th - Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by Pres Abraham Lincoln
US President Abraham Lincoln Feb 26th - Battle of Woodburn, KY
Feb 28th - Opera "La Reine de Saba," premieres in Paris
Mar 3rd - Union forces under General Pope lay siege to New Madrid, Missouri (US Civil War)
Mar 5th - Union troops under brig-gen Wright occupy Fernandina Florida
Mar 6th - Battle of Pea Ridge, AR (Elkhorn Tavern)
Mar 7th - Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Gens McCulloch & McIntosh killed
Mar 8th - Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal
Mar 8th - Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched
Mar 8th - Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, VA CSS Virginia, Jamestown & Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress & Monitor
Mar 9th - "Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads
Mar 10th - Great Britain & France recognizes independence of Zanzibar
Mar 10th - US issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1000)
Mar 11th - Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief & makes him head of
Mar 11th - 12] Gen Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief
Mar 14th - Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern
Mar 15th - Gen John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, TN
Mar 16th - Battle at Pound Gap Kentucky: Confederates separate battles
Mar 22nd - San Marino & Italy conclude treaty of friendship & cooperation
Mar 23rd - Battle of Kernstown VA-Jackson begins his Valley Campaign
Mar 26th - Battle of La Glorieta Pass, NM Terr (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch)
Mar 28th - Skirmish at Bealeton Station, Virginia
Mar 31st - Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River
Apr 1st - Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock, VA
Apr 4th - Battle of Yorktown (US Civil War) begins
Apr 4th - US begins Peninsular Campaign aimed at capturing Richmond during US Civil War
Apr 5th - Siege of Yorktown VA
Apr 6th - Battle of Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy in SW Tennessee
Apr 7th - Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn, Island #10 falls
Apr 8th - John D Lynde patents aerosol dispenser
Apr 11th - Rebels surrender Ft Pulaski, Georgia-Rebels surrender
Apr 12th - James Andrews steals Confederate train (General) at Kennesaw, GA
Apr 12th - Union troops occupy Fort Pulaski Georgia
Apr 14th - Battle of Ft Pillow TN
Apr 16th - Slavery abolished in District of Columbia
Apr 16th - US Confederate Congress approves conscription act for all white males (18-35 years)
Apr 18th - Battle of Ft Jackson, Ft St Philip & New Orlean's, LA
Bacteriologist Louis Pasteur Apr 20th - The first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard.
Apr 21st - Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Co
Apr 21st - Ellen Price Wood's "East Lynne, premieres in Boston
Apr 25th - Battle of New Orleans LA - US Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans
Apr 29th - 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth, Miss
Apr 29th - New Orleans fell to Union forces during US Civil War
Apr 30th - Swift Run Gap, WV skirmishes
May 1st - Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans
May 4th - -5] Battle at Williamsburg, Virginia
May 4th - Yorktown, VA - McClellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brigadier General Gabrial Rains
May 5th - French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo
May 5th - Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg, VA
May 7th - Battle of West Point, VA (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville)
May 7th - Much of Enschede Neth destroyed by fire
May 8th - Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell Va
May 9th - Battle of Farmington, MS
May 9th - Battle of Ft Pickens, FL (Pensacola), evacuated by CS
May 9th - US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport, RI
May 10th - Battle of Plum Run Bend, TN (Plum Point Bend)
May 11th - Confederates scuttle CSS Virginia off Norfolk, VA
May 12th - Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge Louisiana
May 14th - Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph
May 15th - -May 17] Battle of Princeton WV
May 15th - Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Ft Darling), Virginia
May 15th - Confederate cruiser The Alabama runs aground near London
May 15th - Department of Agriculture created
May 15th - Gen Benjamin F Butler delegates "Woman Order" of NO to be his whores
May 15th - Union Grounds, Brooklyn, 1st baseball enclosure, opens
May 16th - Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds 1st automobile
May 17th - Battle of Princeton WV, ends, about 128 casualities

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 111

Jan 1st - Snitz Edwards, Hungary, actor (College, Phantom of the Opera)
Jan 3rd - Sir Matthew Nathan, British Governor of Queensland and other places (d. 1939)
Jan 8th - Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder (Doubleday & Co)
Jan 17th - John E Akkeringa, Dutch painter/etcher
Jan 23rd - David Hilbert, Königsberg East Prussia, mathematician
Jan 24th - Edith Wharton [-Jones], New York NY, Pulitzer prize-winning novelist (Ethan Frome, House of Mirth), (d. 1937)
Jan 29th - Frederick Delius, Bradford England, composer (Hiawatha)
Jan 30th - Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer
Feb 5th - Felipe Villanueva y Gutierrez, Mexico, composer
Feb 7th - Bernard Maybeck, US architect (Palace of Fine Arts, SF)
Feb 10th - W H "Gobo" Ashley, cricketer (7 wkts in 1 Test for South Africa 1889)
Feb 13th - Karel Weis, composer
Feb 17th - Edward German (Jones), Whitchurch Shropshire, British composer
Feb 17th - Mori Ōgai, Japanese novelist and poet (d. 1922)
Feb 22nd - Karen Hulda Garborg[-Bergersen], Norwegian playwright (Mot Solen/Eli)
Feb 27th - Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (d. 1937)
Mar 2nd - John Jay Chapman, US advocate/poet/writer (Learning & Other Essays)
Mar 2nd - Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (d. 1916)
Mar 4th - Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Emden-polytroop)
Pulitzer prize winning novelist Edith Wharton (Jan 24th) Mar 5th - Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (d. 1934)
Mar 8th - Joseph Lee, helped develop playgrounds
Mar 12th - Jane Delano, US, nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross)
Mar 13th - Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer
Mar 14th - Vilhelm FK Bjerknes, Norwegian/US physicist/meteorology
Mar 17th - Silvio Gesell, Belgian economist (d. 1930)
Mar 23rd - Nathaniel Reed, American outlaw turned evangelist (d.1950)
Mar 26th - George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer
Mar 28th - Aristide Briand, France, 11x premier (1909-22) (Nobel 1926)
Apr 2nd - Nicholas Murray Butler, US, Columbia U pres/pacifist (Nobel 1931)
Apr 5th - Louis Ganne, composer
Apr 11th - Charles Evans Hughs, 11th Chief Justice of Supreme Court (1930-41)
Apr 11th - William W Campbell, US astronomer/director Lick Observatory
Apr 14th - Pyotr A Stolypin, premier Russia (1906-11)
Apr 25th - Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/minister of Foreign affairs
Apr 29th - Vittorio Mario Vanzo, composer
May 2nd - Marie F M Emmanuel, French composer/musicologist (Salamine)
May 5th - Max Elskamp, Belgian author/poet (Lesson Joies Blondes, Maya)
May 15th - Arthur Schnitzler, Austria, playwright/novelist (La Ronde)
May 18th - Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, German para-psychologist
May 19th - Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (d. 1942)
May 22nd - August Cuppens, Flemish author/pastor
May 23rd - William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player who lived to 99
May 28th - Henry W Slocum Jr, tennis champ (US Open-1888)
Jun 1st - Antonio JdC Feijo, Portuguese diplomat/poet (Bailatas)
Jun 5th - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish physician (Nobel 1911)
Jun 6th - Henry John Newbolt, English sea historian/poet
Jun 7th - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
Jun 10th - Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (d. 1937)
Jun 21st - Henry Holden Huss, composer
Jun 21st - Johannes Schlaf, writer
Jun 21st - Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (d. 1943)
Jun 25th - Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell, composer
Jun 27th - May Irwin, US comedienne/singer (Hot Time in the Old Town)
Jul 2nd - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1942)
Jul 3rd - Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer
Jul 11th - Liza Nina Mary Frederica Lehmann, composer
Jul 14th - Florence Bascom, US, 1st American woman PhD
Jul 14th - Gustav Klimt, Austria, Art Nouveau painter
Jul 16th - Ida Bell Wells-Barnett [Iola], US civil rights activist
Jul 18th - Victor, Prince Napoleon (Napoleon V), French pretender to throne
Jul 18th - Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich, Russian WWI general (d. 1933)
Jul 24th - Johan A de Sleeve, [Adwaita], philosopher/classical/poet (Brahman)
Aug 1st - Montague Rhodes James, scholar/author/editor
Aug 5th - Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man" (d. 1890)
Aug 7th - Victoria of Baden, Queen of Sweden (d. 1931)
Aug 11th - Carrie Jacobs Bond, Janesville Wisc, songwriter (I Love You Truly)
Aug 16th - Amos Alonzo Stagg, football pioneer, inventor (tackling dummy)
Composer Claude Debussy (Aug 22nd) Aug 22nd - Claude Debussy, St Germain-en-Laye, composer (La Mer, Clair de lune), (d. 1918)
Aug 26th - Herbert Booth, American son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926)
Aug 29th - Maurice Maeterlinck, Ghent Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911), (d. 1949)
Aug 29th - Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
Sep 1st - Adolphe Appia, Swiss set designer/theorist
Sep 1st - Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer [or Sept 2]
Sep 2nd - Franjo Krežma, Croatian violinist (d. 1881)
Sep 11th - O Henry, [William Sydney Porter], American short story writer (d. 1910)
Sep 11th - Julian Byng, British army officer (d. 1935)
Sep 13th - Dirk Bos, Dutch liberal 2nd Member of parliament
Sep 19th - Adeline De Walt Reynolds, Benton County IA, actress (Son of Dracula)
Sep 21st - James E. Talmage, LDS apostle and author (d. 1933)
Sep 25th - Leon Boellmann, French organist/composer (Variations Symphoniques)
Sep 25th - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
Sep 27th - Louis Botha, Greytown South Africa, 1st PM of South Africa (1910-19)
Author and Nobel Laureate Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug 29th) Sep 30th - Georgy Eduardovich Konyus, composer
Oct 3rd - John Briggs, cricketer (mighty England all-rounder late 19th century)
Oct 4th - Edward Stratemeyer, American author (d. 1930)
Oct 6th - Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, US, politician/author (Progressive)
Oct 10th - Arthur De Greef, composer
Oct 13th - Mary Kingsley, English writer and explorer (d. 1900)
Oct 19th - Auguste Lumière, made 1st movie (Workers Leaving Lumière Factory)
Nov 1st - Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer/conductor/organist (Cyrano)
Nov 4th - Eden Phillpotts, England, novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes)
Nov 15th - Adolf Bartels, German folk art writer
Nov 15th - Gerhart Hauptmann, Obersalzbrunn, Germany, author (Before Dawn-Nobel 1912), (d. 1946)
Nov 16th - Charles Thomas Biass Turner, cricketer (the "Terror")
Nov 19th - Billy Sunday, American evangelist (d. 1935)
Nov 20th - Willem H Vliegen, Dutch typographer/co-founder/chairman (SDAP)
Nov 23rd - Alberto Williams, Buenos Aires Argentina, composer (Etrerno Reposo)
Author and Nobel Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann (Nov 15th) Nov 23rd - Theo van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter (pointillism)
Nov 25th - Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, composer
Nov 26th - Mark A Stein, archaeologist

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

Sep 16th - Liliuokalani, queen of Hawaii (1891-93) marries John Owen Dominis
Sep 23rd - Russian writer ("War and peace") Leo Tolstoy (34) marries Sophia Andreevna Behrs (18) daughter of a physician

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 91 of 91

Jan 1st - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (b. 1801)
Jan 5th - Joseph Frohlich, composer, dies at 81
Jan 10th - Samuel Colt, American inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47
Jan 18th - John Tyler, 10th US pres (1841-45), dies in Richmond Va at 71
Jan 20th - Felix Zollicoffer, Gen killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines
Jan 24th - James McIntosh, US confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at about 33
Feb 3rd - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87
Feb 7th - Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer, dies at 61
Feb 11th - Elizabeth Siddal, British poet and artist (b. 1829)
Feb 21st - Justinus A C Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer, dies at 75
Feb 24th - Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author (Holger Danske), dies at 72
Feb 27th - Gabriele dell' Addolorata, patron of Ital Catholic youth, dies at 23
Mar 1st - Peter Barlow, English mathematician (b. 1776)
Mar 2nd - Frederick West Lander, US Union brig-general/poet, dies at 40
Mar 7th - Ben McCulloch, US Confederate brig-general (KIA), dies at 50
Mar 7th - John Baillie McIntosh, US general-major (Union Army), dies at 32
Mar 7th - William Slack, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
Mar 8th - Adrien de La Fage, composer, dies at 56
Mar 8th - Nat Gordon, last pirate, hanged in NYC for stealing 1,000 slaves
US President John Tyler (Jan 18th) Mar 17th - Fromental Halevy, [Elie Levy], French opera composer, dies at 62
Mar 19th - F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari), dies at 73
Mar 23rd - Karl Robert von Nesselrode, German chancellor, dies at 81
Apr 3rd - James Clark Ross, Arctic explorer, dies
Apr 4th - Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor (Iduna), dies at 45
Apr 6th - Adley Hogan Gladden, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 51
Apr 6th - Albert Sidney Johnston, US Confederate general, dies in battle at 59
Apr 7th - Sydney Nelson, composer, dies at 62
Apr 9th - George W Johnson, US planter/Confederate (gov-Ky), dies at about 50
Apr 10th - William Harvey Lamb Wallace, US lawyer/brig-general, dies at 40
Apr 19th - Louis Powell Harvey, US governor of Wisconsin, drowns
Apr 19th - Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer, dies
Apr 25th - Charles Ferguson Smith, US Union Gen-Maj, dies of infection at 55
May 6th - Henry David Thoreau, US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44
May 16th - Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40
Naturalist/Pacifist Henry David Thoreau (May 6th) May 18th - William H Keim, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 48
May 21st - John Drew, Irish-born American actor (b. 1827)
May 25th - Johann N Nestroy, Aust actor (Einmal Keine Sorgen Haben), dies at 60
May 28th - Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40 [5/16]
May 29th - Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer, dies at 71
May 31st - Robert Hatton, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at about 34
Jun 6th - Turner Ashby, General, killed near Harrisonburg VA, dies at 33
Jun 7th - William B Mumford, 1st US citizen hanged for treason, at 42
Jun 17th - Charles J Canning, English 1st viceroy of British-Indies, dies at 49
Jun 27th - Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, Confederate major, dies in battle at about 35
Jun 30th - Richard Griffith, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 48
Jul 3rd - William Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40
Jul 5th - Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (b. 1800)
Jul 15th - David Emanuel Twiggs, US Confederate gen-mjr (Monterrey), dies at 72
Jul 24th - Martin Van Buren, 8th pres (1837-41), dies in Kinderhook NY at 79
Aug 5th - Thomas Williams, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 47
Aug 6th - Francisco Acuna de Figueroa, Uruguay national anthem, dies at 71
Aug 9th - Joseph Bennett Plummer, US Union-brig-gen, dies at 42 or 46
Aug 10th - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
Aug 22nd - Henry Bohlen, German/US brig-general (Union), dies in battle at 51
Aug 31st - George William Taylor, US Union brig-general, dies in battle
Aug 31st - Ignaz Assmayer, composer, dies at 72
Sep 1st - Isaac Ingalls Stevens, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 44
Sep 1st - Oliver Tilden, of the Bronx, killed in Civil War in Virginia
Sep 1st - Philip "Phil" Kearny, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 48
Sep 2nd - Thornton F Brodhead, US lawyer/politician/brig-general, dies at 40
Sep 10th - Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay (1844-62), dies at 71
Sep 14th - Jesse Lee Reno, Union general-major (Reno Nevada), dies at 39
Sep 14th - Samuel Garland Jr, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle
Sep 17th - Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, (Rep-D)/Confederate brig-general, dies at 41
Sep 17th - William Edwin Starke, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at about 48
Sep 19th - [Lewis] Henry Little, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 45
Sep 29th - William "Bull" Nelson, Union general-major, murdered at 38
Sep 30th - Isaac Peace Rodman, banker/Union brig-gen, dies of injury at about 40
Oct 3rd - Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Union brig-general, dies in battle at 47
Oct 4th - William Duncan Smith, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 36
Oct 8th - James Streshley Jackson, attorney/Union-brig-gen, dies in battle at 39
Oct 8th - William Rufus Terrill, Union brig-general, dies in battle at 28
Oct 16th - George Burgwyn Anderson, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 31
Oct 18th - James Creighton, amateur American baseball player, dies of ruptured bladder from hitting home run on Oct 14th
Oct 30th - Ormsby Mcknight Mitchel, US astronomer/Union-general-major, dies at 53
Nov 6th - Charles Davis Jameson, US Union brig-gen (Fair Oaks), dies at 35
Nov 9th - John Bordenave Villepigue, US Confederate brig-gen, dies at 32
Nov 11th - James Madison Porter, American politician (b. 1793)
Nov 13th - Ludwig Uhland, writer, dies at 75
Nov 17th - Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer, dies at 63
Dec 7th - Sylvester Churchill, US Union brig-general, dies
Dec 13th - Conrad Feger Jackson, US Union Brig-General, dies in Battle of Fredericksburg at 49
Dec 13th - Maxcy Gregg, US Confederate Brig-General, dies in Battle of Fredericksburg at 48
Dec 13th - Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Confederate Brig-General, dies in Battle of Fredericksburg at 39
Dec 14th - George Dashiell Bayard, Union Brigadier General, dies at 27
Dec 18th - Johnson Kelly Duncan, architect/Confederate brig-generaal, dies at 35 of malarial fever
Dec 20th - Robert Knox Scottish surgeon, anatomist and zoologist
Dec 24th - Joseph Funk, composer, dies at 84
Dec 28th - Joaquim Casimiro Junior, composer, dies at 54
Dec 31st - James Edward Rains, lawyer/Confederate brig-gen, dies in Battle of Stone's River at 29
Dec 31st - Joshua Woodrow Sill, US Union brig-general, dies in Battle of Stone's River at 31