Page 11: Historical Events In 1862

Aug 28   Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC in the year 1862.   

Aug 29   On this day in history 2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins   

Aug 29   Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels on this day in history.   

Aug 29   In the year 1862 p M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911)   

Aug 29   US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation in the year 1862.   

Aug 30   On this day in history 2nd Battle of Bull Run   

Aug 30   On this day in history battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY   

Aug 30   In the year 1862 battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee   

Aug 30   Confederate troops defeat Union forces at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, VA on this day in history.   

Aug 31   George William Taylor, US Union brig-general, dies in battle in the year 1862.   

Sep 01   Adolphe Appia, Swiss set designer/theorist in the year 1862.   

Sep 01   On this day in history battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties)   

Sep 01   Isaac Ingalls Stevens, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 44 on this day in history.   

Sep 01   Severe action at Chantilly, Virginia in the year 1862.   

Sep 02   In the year 1862 thornton F Brodhead, US lawyer/politician/brig-general, dies at 40   

Sep 04   Gen Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops on this day in history.   

Sep 04   On this day in history north Beach &Mission Railway Company organized in SF   

Sep 05   In the year 1862 lee crosses Potomac & enters Maryland   

Sep 05   On this day in history lee crosses the Potomac &enters Maryland   

Sep 06   On this day in history stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland   

Sep 06   Stonewall Jackson occupies Fredrick, Maryland in the year 1862.   

Sep 09   Lee splits his army & sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry in the year 1862.   

Sep 09   Lee splits his army &sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry on this day in history.   

Sep 10   In the year 1862 carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay (1844-62), dies at 71   

Sep 11   O Henry, [William Sydney Porter], short story writer in the year 1862.   

Sep 12   Battle of Harpers Ferry VA on this day in history.   

Sep 13   On this day in history dirk Bos, Dutch liberal 2nd Member of parliament   

Sep 14   Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates in the year 1862.   

Sep 14   Jesse Lee Reno, Union general-major (Reno Nevada), dies at 39 on this day in history.   

Sep 15   On this day in history confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry WV   

Sep 15   Stonewall Jackson takes Harpers Ferry on this day in history.   

Sep 16   In the year 1862 battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in Civil War (Sharpsburg Md)   

Sep 16   Gen Bragg's army surrounds 4000 federals at Munfordville, KY on this day in history.   

Sep 17   Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN-evacuted by Federals on this day in history.   

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of snitz Edwards, Hungary, actor (College, Phantom of the Opera)   

Jan 03   In the year 1862 birth of sir Matthew Nathan, British Governor of Queensland and other places (d. 1939)   

Jan 08   On this day in history birth of frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder (Doubleday & Co)   

Jan 17   On this day in history birth of john E Akkeringa, Dutch painter/etcher   

Jan 23   David Hilbert, Königsberg East Prussia, mathematician was born in the year 1862.   

Jan 24   Edith Wharton[-Jones], US, novelist (Ethan Frome, House of Mirth) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 29   On this day in history birth of frederick Delius, Bradford England, composer (Hiawatha)   

Jan 30   In the year 1862 birth of walter Johannes Damrosch, composer   

Jan 01   Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (b. 1801) died in the year 1862.   

Jan 05   Joseph Frohlich, composer, dies at 81 in the year 1862.   

Jan 10   In the year 1862 samuel Colt, inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47   

Jan 18   John Tyler, 10th US pres (1841-45), dies in Richmond Va at 71 in the year 1862.   

Jan 20   On this day in history death of felix Zollicoffer, Gen killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines   

Jan 24   In the year 1862 james McIntosh, US confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at about 33   

Feb 03   Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87 on this day in history.   

Feb 07   Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer, dies at 61 on this day in history.