Today in History for Year 1862 (Part 3)

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

Historical Events

Events 201 - 285 of 285

Sep 4th - Maryland Campaign (Antietam Campaign)
Sep 5th - Lee crosses Potomac & enters Maryland
Sep 6th - Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland
Sep 9th - Lee splits his army & sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry
Sep 12th - Battle of Harpers Ferry VA
Sep 14th - Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates
Sep 14th - Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates
Sep 14th - Battle of Munfordsville KY
Sep 14th - Federal troops escape from beleaguered Harpers Ferry West Virginia
Sep 14th - Skirmish at Fox's Gap, US Civil War
Sep 15th - Confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry WV
Sep 16th - Gen Bragg's army surrounds 4,000 federals at Munfordville, KY
Sep 17th - Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in Civil War (Sharpsburg Md), 23, 110 die
Sep 17th - Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN-evacuted by Federals
Sep 17th - Battle of Mumfordville, KY-US Col J Wilder surrenders city
Sep 17th - American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.
Sep 18th - Confederate armies officially divide into corps
Sep 18th - General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia
Sep 19th - -20] Battle at Blackford's Ford Virginia
Sep 19th - Battle at Iuka Mississippi (1,700 casualties)
Sep 22nd - President Lincoln, says he will free slaves in all states on Jan 1
Sep 23rd - Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers
Sep 24th - Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
Sep 25th - Skirmish at Davis' Bridge, Tennessee
Sep 30th - First Battle of Newtonia (American Civil War), Newton County, Missouri
Oct 3rd - -10] Battle of Corinth, Mississippi
Oct 3rd - Skirmish at Bardstown, Kentucky
Oct 4th - Battle of Corinth ends
Oct 5th - Battle of Big Hatchie River, MS
Oct 5th - Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas
Oct 8th - Battle of Perryville, KY-Confederate invasion halted
Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck Oct 8th - Otto von Bismarck becomes German republic chancellor
Oct 12th - JEB Stuart completes his "2nd ride around McClellan"
Oct 12th - Maj Gen Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Conf troops in Missisippi
Oct 12th - Skirmish at Monocacy, Maryland
Oct 13th - Bismarck's "Blood & Iron" speech
Oct 14th - Baseballer James Creighton ruptures bladder hitting HR, dies 10/18
Oct 14th - Excelsiors defeat Unions of Morrisania 13-9
Oct 17th - Battle of Leetown & Thoroughfare Gap, VA
Oct 18th - Morgan's raiders capture federal garrison at Lexington, KY
Oct 20th - Amnesty proclaimed for escaped slaves of Suriname
Oct 22nd - Battle at Old Fort Wayne, Indian Territory
Oct 22nd - Confederate troops reconquer Cumperland Gap, Tennessee
Nov 3rd - Battle until the 5th November between gunboats at Bayou Teche, a waterway in Louisiana
Nov 4th - Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun (Indianapolis)
Nov 5th - Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac
Nov 5th - Battle at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia: 51 casualties
Nov 6th - NY-SF direct telegraphic link forms
Nov 9th - US Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
Nov 11th - Opera "La Forza Del Destino" is produced (St Petersburg Russia)
Nov 13th - Battle of Holly Spring, MS
Nov 17th - Confederate Sec of War George B Randolph resigns
Nov 20th - Confederate armies of Mississippi and Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee, under General Braxton Bragg
Nov 24th - M Levy publishes Gustave Flauberts "Salammbo"
Nov 28th - Battle at Cane Hill, Arkansas (475 casualties)
Nov 28th - Battle of Hooly Spring, MS
Dec 5th - Battle of Coffeeville, MS
Dec 6th - Pres Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians
Dec 7th - Battle of Hartsville, TN
Dec 7th - Battle of Prairie Grove, AR
Dec 12th - Battle of Dumfries, VA
Dec 12th - Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed)
Dec 13th - Battle of Fredericksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)
Dec 16th - Kingdom of Nepal accepts its constitution
Dec 17th - Gen US Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee
Dec 18th - Battle at Lexington, Tennessee (Forrest's Second Raid)
Dec 19th - Skirmish at Jackson/Salem Church, Tenn (80 casualties)
Dec 20th - -Dec 20th] Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA
Dec 20th - -Jan 3rd] Vicksburg campaign
Dec 20th - Battle of Holly Spring, MS
Confederate General/KKK Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest Dec 20th - Brig-gen Nathan Bedford Forrest occupies Trenton, Kentucky
Dec 22nd - -Jan 2nd) Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY
Dec 23rd - Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw & common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis
Dec 25th - 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC
Dec 26th - -Dec 28th) Battle of Dumfries, VA
Dec 26th - 1st US navy hospital ship enters service
Dec 26th - 38 Santee Sioux Indians hanged in Mankato Minnesota, due to their uprising
Dec 27th - Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, MS (Chickasaw Bayou)
Dec 27th - Battle of Elizabethtown, KY
Dec 29th - Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat Gen Sherman
Dec 29th - Bowling ball invented
Dec 31st - -Jan 20th) Battle of Stone's River/Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennesse in American Civil War
Dec 31st - President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to the Union
Dec 31st - Skirmish at Parker Cross Roads, Tennessee
Dec 31st - Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, NC