1862 TIMELINE
Unsorted 1962 Events [Bottom]
JANUARY
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13 - Lincoln appoints Stanton Secretary of War
19 - The South loses at Mill Springs, Kentucky
FEBRUARY
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06 - |Tennessee| Grant captures Ft. Henry near Nashville
08 - Union takes Roanoke Island, North Carolina
25 - |Tennessee|Confederates abandon Nashville
MARCH
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00 - The Prussian Landtag insists on itemization of the budget
so they can see that extra funds aren't going to the military. The king disolves the Landtag.
08 - Confederate Merrimack destroys 15 Union ships
09 - Confederate Merrimack and USS Monitor meet neither ship wins
23 - Stonewall Jackson defeated at Kernstown, Virginia
APRIL
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03 - West Virginia created
04 - Union McClellan lays siege to Yorktown, Va.
06 - |Tennessee| Confederates win day one at Shiloh
07 - |Tennessee| Union wins day two at Shiloh
08 - |Tennessee| Union captures Island Number Ten at Memphis
16 - Confederacy adopts new draft law
25 - Adm. David Farragut captures New Orleans
MAY
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00 - |PRUSSIA| There is another election of which the Deutsche Fortschrittsparte win 133 seats.
03 - |VIRGINIA| Confederates evacuate Yorktown Peninsula and McClellan occupies it on may 05
05 - |VIRGINIA| Union captures Williamsburg
08 - |VIRGINIA| Stonewall Jackson takes McDowell
09 - |VIRGINIA| Union forces Confederates to abandon Norfolk
12 - Union forces occupy Baton Rouge, La.
15 - U.S. Navy repulsed at Drewry's Bluff on James River below Richmond
20 - Homestead Act passed by Congress
23 - |VIRGINIA| Stonewall Jackson beats Union at Front Royal
25 - |VIRGINIA| Stonewall Jackson routs Union forces at Winchester, the First Battle of Winchester
31 - |VIRGINIA| Battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks)
JUNE
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01 - Lee made commander of Army of Northern Virginia
04 - Confederates evacuate Ft. Pillow, Tennessee
06 - Union captures Memphis, Tennessee following naval battle
08 - 09 - |VIRGINIA| Stonewall Jackson defeats Union at Cross Keys and Port Republic
12 - 16 - Jeb Stuart rides around McClellan's army
13 - The 'Alligator,' was placed into service as the first submarine ?+
in the U. S. Navy
14 - 15 - |VIRGINIA| Union loses at Winchester by troops of Lee
16 - Union loses in numbers at Secessionville, S.C.
25 - jul 01 - |VIRGINIA| Seven Days battles at Oak Grove, Mechanicsville, Gaines Mill, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill
26 - Battle of Mechanicsville, aka Beaver Dam Creek, Ellerson's Mill
27 - Battle of Gaines Mill, aka First Cold Harbor, Chickahominy
29 - |VIRGINIA| Battle of Savage's Station
30 - |VIRGINIA| Battle of Glendale, aka Frayser's Farm, White Oak Swamp
JULY
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01 - Battle of Malvern Hill
24 - |New York| Martin Van Buren +,
eighth president of the United States, dies in Kinderhook.
AUGUST
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09 - |VIRGINIA| Stonewall Jackson defeats Union at Cedar Mountain
16 - 18 - |TEXAS| Union siege, Corpus Christi
17 - |MINNESOTA| Starving Sioux attack settlers at Acton
28 - |VIRGINIA| Battle of Groveton
29 - 30 - |VIRGINIA| Confederates defeat John Pope at 2nd Bull Run, Manassas
29 - 30 - |KENTUCKY| Confederates rout Union at Richmond
SEPTEMBER
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01 - |TENNESSEE| Battle of Britton's Lane
01 - |VIRGINIA| Battle of Chantilly
04 - Lee's first invasion of the North, he crosses Potomac River
13 - Lee's famous Lost Order found by McClellan's troops
14 - |MARYLAND| Battle of South Mountain - Lee vs. McClellan
15 - Stonewall Jackson wins at Harper's Ferry, W. Virginia
17 - |MARYLAND| Battle of Antietam, aka Sharpsburg, - Lee and McClellan
19 - |MISSISSIPPI| Confederates lose at Iuka - Price and Rosecrans
22 - Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
23 - |PRUSSIA| The Landtag delete from the budget money which has already gone towards military reorganization.
OCTOBER
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03 - 04 - Battle at Corinth, Mississippi - Draw between Van Dorn and Rosecrans
08 - |KENTUCKY| Battle of Perryville, (Chaplin Hills) - Bragg and Buell
09 - 12 - |PENNSYLVANIA| Jeb Stuart raids Chambersburg rides around McClellan 2nd time
NOVEMBER
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07 - McClellan removed as commander - Burnside installed
16 - |TEXAS| Union occupies Corpus Christi
DECEMBER
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13 - |VIRGINIA| Union loses with heavy losses at Fredericksburg
27 - Three day Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, Ms.
29 - Sherman bested at Chickasaw Bluffs, Missouri
31 - |TENNESSEE| Battle of Murfreesboro (Stones River), [until jan 31, 1863]
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- Victor Hugo publishes "Les Miserables".
- Henry David Thoreau dies.
- |USA ?| Port Royal Experiment of returning land
to freed black slaves begins
- Bismarck is transfered to Paris to serve as an ambassador there.
- Thomas Edison begins work as a telegraph operator in Port Huron.
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- Bismarck is called in for advice and made minister of foreign affairs for
Prussia.
|ITALY|-Caselli sends a drawing over a wire.
- Mexican army defeats the French army in the Battle of Puebla.
- Richard Jordan Gatling patents the Gatling gun.
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