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1862 Historical Event(s)
February 15, 1862
– American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
March 7, 1862
– American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
March 23, 1862
– The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign. Though a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond.
June 4, 1862
– American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
July 1, 1862
– The Russian State Library is founded.
August 17, 1862
– Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Lakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
November 5, 1862
– Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.
November 14, 1862
– American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside’s plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
December 1, 1862
– In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who Were Born On 1862?
January 3, 1862
– Sir Matthew Nathan, British Governor of Queensland (d. 1939)
January 29, 1862
– Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934)
February 3, 1862
– James Clark McReynolds, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1946)
March 23, 1862
– Nathaniel Reed, American outlaw turned evangelist (d. 1950)
July 2, 1862
– William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1942)
August 5, 1862
– Joseph Merrick, English sideshow performer (d. 1890)
August 22, 1862
– Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
August 29, 1862
– Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet Nobel laureate (d. 1949)
September 11, 1862
– O. Henry, American writer (d. 1910)
November 3, 1862
– Henry George, Jr., American politician (d. 1916)