Page 11: Historical Events In 1862

Aug 28   In the year 1862 belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC   

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

Aug 29   Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels in the year 1862.   

Aug 29   P M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911) on this day in history.   

Aug 29   US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation on this day in history.   

Aug 30   2nd Battle of Bull Run in the year 1862.   

Aug 30   In the year 1862 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   On this day in history confederate troops defeat Union forces at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, VA.   

Aug 31   On this day in history george William Taylor, US Union brig-general, dies in battle   

Sep 01   Adolphe Appia, Swiss set designer/theorist on this day in history.   

Sep 01   Battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties) on this day in history.   

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

Sep 01   In the year 1862 severe action at Chantilly, Virginia   

Sep 02   Thornton F Brodhead, US lawyer/politician/brig-general, dies at 40 on this day in history.   

Sep 04   Gen Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops in the year 1862.   

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

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

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

Sep 06   In the year 1862 stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland   

Sep 06   In the year 1862 stonewall Jackson occupies Fredrick, Maryland   

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 in the year 1862.   

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

Sep 11   On this day in history o Henry, [William Sydney Porter], short story writer   

Sep 12   In the year 1862 battle of Harpers Ferry VA   

Sep 13   Dirk Bos, Dutch liberal 2nd Member of parliament on this day in history.   

Sep 14   In the year 1862 battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates   

Sep 14   On this day in history jesse Lee Reno, Union general-major (Reno Nevada), dies at 39   

Sep 15   In the year 1862 confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry WV   

Sep 15   Stonewall Jackson takes Harpers Ferry in the year 1862.   

Sep 16   Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in Civil War (Sharpsburg Md) on this day in history.   

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

Sep 17   On this day in history battle of Cumberland Gap, TN-evacuted by Federals   

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

Jan 03   Sir Matthew Nathan, British Governor of Queensland and other places (d. 1939) was born in the year 1862.   

Jan 08   In the year 1862 birth of frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder (Doubleday & Co)   

Jan 17   In the year 1862 birth of john E Akkeringa, Dutch painter/etcher   

Jan 23   In the year 1862 birth of david Hilbert, Königsberg East Prussia, mathematician   

Jan 24   On this day in history birth of edith Wharton[-Jones], US, novelist (Ethan Frome, House of Mirth)   

Jan 29   Frederick Delius, Bradford England, composer (Hiawatha) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 30   Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer was born in the year 1862.   

Jan 01   On this day in history death of mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (b. 1801)   

Jan 05   In the year 1862 joseph Frohlich, composer, dies at 81   

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

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

Jan 20   In the year 1862 death of felix Zollicoffer, Gen killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines   

Jan 24   James McIntosh, US confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at about 33 on this day in history.   

Feb 03   On this day in history jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87   

Feb 07   In the year 1862 frantisek Jan Skroup, composer, dies at 61