1862 in History (Part 3)

Events 201 - 271 of 271

• Sep 17 Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN-evacuted by Federals
• Sep 17 Battle of Mumfordville, Kentucky, US Col J Wilder surrenders city
• Sep 17 American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war; 78 workers killed.
• Sep 18 Confederate armies officially divide into corps
• Sep 18 General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia
• Sep 19 -20] Battle at Blackford's Ford, Virginia
• Sep 19 Battle at Iuka Mississippi (1,700 casualties)

• Sep 23 Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers
• Sep 24 Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
• Sep 25 Skirmish at Davis' Bridge, Tennessee
• Sep 30 First Battle of Newtonia (American Civil War), Newton County, Missouri

• Oct 3 -10] Battle of Corinth, Mississippi
• Oct 3 Skirmish at Bardstown, Kentucky
• Oct 4 Battle of Corinth ends
• Oct 5 Battle of Hatchie Bridge, Tennessee; confederate forces avoid capture by Union army
• Oct 5 Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas
• Oct 8 Battle of Perryville, KY- Confederate invasion halted
• Oct 8 Otto von Bismarck becomes Chancellor of the German Empire

• Oct 12 Maj Gen Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Confederate troops in Missisippi
• Oct 12 Skirmish at Monocacy, Maryland
• Oct 14 Excelsiors defeat Unions of Morrisania 13-9
• Oct 17 Battle of Leetown & Thoroughfare Gap, VA
• Oct 18 Morgan's raiders capture federal garrison at Lexington, KY
• Oct 20 Amnesty proclaimed for escaped slaves of Suriname
• Oct 22 Battle at Old Fort Wayne, Indian Territory
• Oct 22 Confederate troops reconquer Cumperland Gap, Tennessee
• Nov 3 Battle until the 5th November between gunboats at Bayou Teche, a waterway in Louisiana
• Nov 4 Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis

• Nov 5 Battle at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia: 51 casualties
• Nov 6 NY-SF direct telegraphic link forms

• Nov 17 Confederate Secretary of War George B Randolph resigns
• Nov 17 Union General Ambrose Burnside marches north out of Washington, D.C., to begin the Fredericksburg campaign
• Nov 20 Confederate armies of Mississippi and Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee, under General Braxton Bragg
• Nov 24 M Levy publishes Gustave Flaubert's "Salammbo"
• Nov 28 Battle at Cane Hill, Arkansas (475 casualties)
• Nov 28 Battle of Hooly Spring, MS
• Dec 5 Battle of Coffeeville, MS
• Dec 6 US President Abraham Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux Indians
• Dec 7 Battle of Hartsville, TN
• Dec 7 Battle of Prairie Grove, AR

• Dec 12 Battle of Dumfries, Virginia
• Dec 12 Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed)
• Dec 13 Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia (Marye's Heights)
• Dec 14 Battle of Kinston, fought in Lenoir County, North Carolina begins (Goldsboro Expedition), Union victory (US Civil War)
• Dec 16 Kingdom of Nepal accepts its constitution


• Dec 17 General Ulysses S. Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee
• Dec 18 Battle at Lexington, Tennessee (Forrest's Second Raid)
• Dec 19 Skirmish at Jackson, Salem Church, Tennessee (80 casualties)
• Dec 20 -Dec 20th] Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA
• Dec 20 -Jan 3rd] Vicksburg campaign
• Dec 20 Confederate raid on Union supplies at Holly Springs, Mississippi

• Dec 22 -Jan 2nd) Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY

• Dec 26 -Dec 28th) Battle of Dumfries, Virginia
• Dec 26 1st US navy hospital ship enters service
• Dec 26 38 Santee Sioux Indians hanged in Mankato Minnesota, due to their uprising
• Dec 27 Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, MS (Chickasaw Bayou)
• Dec 27 Battle of Elizabethtown, Kentucky

• Dec 29 Bowling ball invented
• Dec 31 -Jan 20th) Battle of Stone's River (Battle of Murfreesboro), Tennesse in American Civil War
• Dec 31 President Abraham Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to the Union
• Dec 31 Skirmish at Parker Cross Roads, Tennessee
• Dec 31 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina

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