Historical Events for Year 1862 (Part 2)

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

Events 151 - 285 of 285

Jul 8th - Odore R Timby patents revolving gun turret
Jul 9th - Gen John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Ky
Jul 10th - US begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad
Jul 11th - Lincoln appoints General Halleck general-in-chief
Jul 12th - Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
Jul 12th - Federal troops occupy Helena Arkansas
Jul 13th - Battle of Murfreesboro, TN (Forrest's Raid) US895 CS150
Jul 15th - CSS Arkansas vs USS Cardondelet & Queen of the West engage at Yazoo R
Jul 16th - David G Farragut is 1st rear admiral in US Navy
Jul 17th - Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River MS: USS Potomac Expedition
Jul 17th - US army authorized to accept blacks as laborers
Jul 17th - United army officially divides corps
Jul 17th - R John Hunt Morgan:Cynthiana, KY CS24 US17 Skirmish at Columbia, TN
Jul 18th - Battle of Newburgh, IN - captured by Union forces
Jul 19th - Forrest's 1st raid
Jul 20th - Guerrilla campaign in GA (Porter's & Poindexter's) [->SEP 20] US580 CS2866
Jul 27th - Hurricane hits Canton; about 40,000 die
Jul 27th - Steamer "Golden Gate" burns & sinks off west coast of Mexico
Jul 28th - Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, Mo
Aug 4th - US government collects its 1st income tax
Aug 5th - Battle of Baton Rouge, LA
Aug 6th - Confederate Army ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack
Aug 9th - Battle of Cedar Mountain VA during US Civil War (Slaughter Mountain, Southwest Mountain)
Aug 9th - Berlioz' opera "Beatrice et Benedict," premieres in Baden-Baden
Aug 9th - Charles S Winder, Confederate General killed at the Battle of Cedar Mountain VA aged 32
Aug 10th - Battle of Nueces River TX
Aug 12th - Gen John Hunt Morgan & his raiders capture Gallatin, TX
Aug 14th - Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with US president
Aug 17th - Confederate troops under Kirby Smith enter Kentucky
Aug 18th - General Lee's adjutant major Stuart captured
Aug 18th - Sioux Indians begin uprising in Minnesota (it is later crushed)
Aug 21st - The Vienna Stadtpark opens its gates.
Aug 22nd - Battle of Catlett's Station VA
Aug 22nd - Santee Sioux indian attack Fort Ridgely
Aug 23rd - Skirmish at Big Hill, Kentucky (2 Federal regiments)
Aug 25th - Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves
Aug 27th - Battle of Cub Run, VA
Aug 28th - Battle of Thoroughfare Gap VA
Aug 28th - Battle of Groveton, VA (Manassas Plains) [->AUG 19] US7000 CS7000
Aug 28th - Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC
Aug 29th - 2nd Battle of Bull Run Va (Manassas) during US Civil War
Aug 29th - Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels
Aug 29th - US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation
Aug 30th - last day of 2nd Battle of Bull Run Va - Confederates beat Union forces
Aug 30th - Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY
Aug 30th - Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
Sep 1st - Battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties)
Sep 1st - Federal tax levied on tobacco
Sep 4th - General Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops
Sep 4th - North Beach & Mission Railway Company organized in SF
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