Events in History
- Feb 1 Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of Republic"
Event of Interest
Feb 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Sumner meet with President Abraham Lincoln at The White House, Washington
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Abraham Lincoln
Victory in Battle
Feb 6 General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee
Ulysses S. Grant
- Feb 6 American Civil War: Naval engagement on Tennessee River, USS Conestago vs CSS Appleton Belle
- Feb 6 Ulysses S. Grant begins military campaign in Mississippi
- Feb 7 Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island NC
- Feb 8 Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound
- Feb 10 Dutch 2nd government of Thorbecke forms
- Feb 13 -Feb 16th) Siege of Ft Donelson, Tennessee
- Feb 14 Galena, 1st US iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut
- Feb 15 Grant's major assault on Ft Donelson, Tennessee
- Feb 16 Fort Donelson is captured by General Ulysses S. Grant following the surrender of around 12,000 Confederate soldiers
- Feb 21 Confederate Constitution & presidency are declared permanent
Victory in Battle
Feb 21 Texas Rangers win Confederate victory at Battle of Valverde, Confederate Arizona (now New Mexico)
Kit Carson
1st US One-Dollar Notes
Feb 25 Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving and Printing to print newly issued US paper currency, the United States Notes
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Event of Interest
Feb 25 First Legal Tender Act 1862 is passed by the US Congress, authorizing the United States Note (greenback) into circulation, the first fiat paper money that was legal tender in America
Abraham Lincoln
- Feb 26 Battle of Woodburn, Kentucky
Birthdays in History
Deaths in History
- Feb 3 Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist (Biot-Savart law), dies at 87
- Feb 11 Elizabeth Siddal, British poet and artist (b. 1829)
- Feb 20 Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet (Florante at Laura), dies at 73
- Feb 21 Justinus A C Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer, dies at 75
- Feb 21 Nathaniel Gordon is hanged in NYC for engaging in the slave trade, the only slave trader in US history to be convicted and executed under the Piracy Law of 1820
- Feb 21 Justinus Kerner, German physician and medical writer (first detailed description of botulism), dies at 75
- Feb 24 Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Danish author (Holger Danske), dies at 72
- Feb 27 Gabriele dell' Addolorata, patron of Italian Catholic youth, dies at 23