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

Events 1 - 29 of 29

5th - Battle of Coffeeville, MS
6th - Pres Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians
7th - Battle of Hartsville, TN
7th - Battle of Prairie Grove, AR
12th - Battle of Dumfries, VA
12th - Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed)
13th - Battle of Fredericksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)
16th - Kingdom of Nepal accepts its constitution
17th - Gen US Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee
18th - Battle at Lexington, Tennessee (Forrest's Second Raid)
19th - Skirmish at Jackson/Salem Church, Tenn (80 casualties)
20th - -Dec 20th] Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA
20th - -Jan 3rd] Vicksburg campaign
20th - Battle of Holly Spring, MS
20th - Brig-gen Nathan Bedford Forrest occupies Trenton, Kentucky
22nd - -Jan 2nd) Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY
23rd - Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw & common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis
25th - 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC
26th - -Dec 28th) Battle of Dumfries, VA
Confederate General/KKK Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest 26th - 1st US navy hospital ship enters service
26th - 38 Santee Sioux Indians hanged in Mankato Minnesota, due to their uprising
27th - Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, MS (Chickasaw Bayou)
27th - Battle of Elizabethtown, KY
29th - Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat Gen Sherman
29th - Bowling ball invented
31st - -Jan 20th) Battle of Stone's River/Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennesse in American Civil War
31st - President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to the Union
31st - Skirmish at Parker Cross Roads, Tennessee
31st - Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, NC