Page 15: Historical Events In 1862

Dec 24   On this day in history joseph Funk, composer, dies at 84   

Dec 25   40,000 watch the Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC on this day in history.   

Dec 25   40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC on this day in history.   

Dec 26   In the year 1862 -Dec 28th) Battle of Dumfries, VA   

Dec 26   In the year 1862 38 Santee Sioux indians, hanged in Mankato   

Dec 26   In the year 1862 alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer [NS]   

Dec 26   First US navy hospital ship enters service on this day in history.   

Dec 27   On this day in history battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, MS (Chickasaw Bayou)   

Dec 28   In the year 1862 joaquim Casimiro Junior, composer, dies at 54   

Dec 29   In the year 1862 battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat Gen Sherman   

Dec 31   In the year 1862 -Jan 20th) Battle of Stone's River, TN (Stone River, Monfreesboro)   

Dec 31   In the year 1862 james Edward Rains, lawyer/Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 29   

Dec 31   President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to the Union in the year 1862.   

Dec 31   USS Monitor founders in a storm off Cape Hatteras, NC.1862 Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee on this day in history.   

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

Jan 03   Sir Matthew Nathan, British Governor of Queensland and other places (d. 1939) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 08   Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder (Doubleday & Co) was born in the year 1862.   

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

Jan 10   Samuel Colt, inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47 on this day in history.   

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

Jan 20   Felix Zollicoffer, Gen killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines died on this day in history.   

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

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

Feb 07   On this day in history frantisek Jan Skroup, composer, dies at 61