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1862 was a Common Year Starting On Wednesday (see link for calendar).
Events
January
August
- - Confederate General Robert E. Lee leads his forces in an attack on retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia , driving them away.
- reluctantly restores Union General George McClellan to full command after General John Pope 's disastrous defeat at the Battle Of Second Bull Run .
- 's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55,000 men of the Army Of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia , into Maryland .
- - Confederates capture the Union garrison at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia .
- - Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Sharpsburg, Maryland , in the bloodiest day in U.S. history (with over 22,000 casualties).
- - Union troops under Major General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by Major General Sterling Price at Iuka, Mississippi .
- September 22 - Otto Von Bismarck becomes prime minister of Prussia .
- by President Abraham Lincoln
- September 29 - Bismarck's "Blood and Iron" speech
October
December
Undated
Ongoing Events
Births
January
May
September
Deaths
- January 10 - Samuel Colt , American firearms inventor (b. 1814 )
- January 18 - John Tyler , 10th President Of The United States (b. 1790 )
- February 7 - Prosper Meniere , French scientist (b. 1799 )
- April 10 - W.H.L. Wallace , American Civil War general (b. 1821 )
- May 6 - Henry David Thoreau , American author and philosopher (b. 1817 )
- July 24 - Martin Van Buren , eighth President Of The United States (b. 1782 )
- August 10 - Shusaku Honinbo , Japanese Go player (b. 1829 )
- November 13 - Ludwig Uhland , German poet (b. 1787 )
- December 18 - Barbara Fritchie , U.S. patriot in Civil War (b. 1766 )
- John Bird Sumner , Archbishop Of Canterbury (b. 1780 )
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