1862 in History (Part 3)

Events in History

Events 201 - 271 of 271

Sep 22 US President Abraham Lincoln says he will free slaves in all states on Jan 1

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

Sep 30 Prussia Minister President Otto von Bismarck's delivers his "Blood & Iron" speech

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 JEB Stuart completes his "second ride around Mcclellan"

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 Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac

Nov 9 US General Ulysses S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him

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 11 Battle of Fredricksburg in Virginia begins between Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside
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 20 Confederate Army Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest occupies Trenton, Kentucky (US Civil War)

Dec 23 Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw & common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis

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 Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat General William T. Sherman

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