Historical Events In 1862

Aug 28   Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC on this day in history.  

Aug 29   In the year 1862 2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins  

Aug 29   On this day in history battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels  

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   In the year 1862 2nd Battle of Bull Run  

Aug 30   In the year 1862 battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY  

Aug 30   Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee on this day in history.  

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

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

Sep 01   On this day in history adolphe Appia, Swiss set designer/theorist  

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   On this day in history thornton F Brodhead, US lawyer/politician/brig-general, dies at 40  

Sep 04   On this day in history gen Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops  

Sep 04   North Beach &Mission Railway Company organized in SF on this day in history.  

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

Sep 05   Lee crosses the Potomac &enters Maryland in the year 1862.  

Sep 06   Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland on this day in history.  

Sep 06   Stonewall Jackson occupies Fredrick, Maryland on this day in history.  

Sep 09   In the year 1862 lee splits his army & sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry  

Sep 09   In the year 1862 lee splits his army &sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry  

Sep 10   Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay (1844-62), dies at 71 in the year 1862.  

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

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   On this day in history battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates  

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   On this day in history stonewall Jackson takes Harpers Ferry  

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

Sep 16   Gen Bragg's army surrounds 4000 federals at Munfordville, KY in the year 1862.  

Sep 17   In the year 1862 battle of Cumberland Gap, TN-evacuted by Federals  

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Jan 01   Snitz Edwards, Hungary, actor (College, Phantom of the Opera) was born in the year 1862.  

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   John E Akkeringa, Dutch painter/etcher was born in the year 1862.  

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   In the year 1862 birth of frederick Delius, Bradford England, composer (Hiawatha)  

Jan 30   On this day in history birth of walter Johannes Damrosch, composer  

Jan 01   In the year 1862 death of mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (b. 1801)  

Jan 05   On this day in history joseph Frohlich, composer, dies at 81  

Jan 10   On this day in history samuel Colt, inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47  

Jan 18   On this day in history john Tyler, 10th US pres (1841-45), dies in Richmond Va at 71  

Jan 20   On this day in history 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   Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer, dies at 61 in the year 1862.