Page 11: Historical Events In 1862

Aug 28   Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC in the year 1862.   

Aug 29   On this day in history 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   2nd Battle of Bull Run in the year 1862.   

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

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   In the year 1862 adolphe Appia, Swiss set designer/theorist   

Sep 01   On this day in history battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties)   

Sep 01   In the year 1862 isaac Ingalls Stevens, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 44   

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

Sep 02   Thornton F Brodhead, US lawyer/politician/brig-general, dies at 40 in the year 1862.   

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 in the year 1862.   

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

Sep 05   Lee crosses the Potomac &enters Maryland on this day in history.   

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

Sep 06   On this day in history stonewall Jackson occupies Fredrick, Maryland   

Sep 09   On this day in history lee splits his army & sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry   

Sep 09   On this day in history lee splits his army &sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry   

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

Sep 11   O Henry, [William Sydney Porter], short story writer in the year 1862.   

Sep 12   Battle of Harpers Ferry VA on this day in history.   

Sep 13   Dirk Bos, Dutch liberal 2nd Member of parliament in the year 1862.   

Sep 14   Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1862.   

Sep 17   Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN-evacuted by Federals on this day in history.   

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Jan 01   Snitz Edwards, Hungary, actor (College, Phantom of the Opera) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   In the year 1862 birth of sir Matthew Nathan, British Governor of Queensland and other places (d. 1939)   

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

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

Jan 23   David Hilbert, Königsberg East Prussia, mathematician was born in the year 1862.   

Jan 24   In the year 1862 birth of edith Wharton[-Jones], US, novelist (Ethan Frome, House of Mirth)   

Jan 29   On this day in history birth of frederick Delius, Bradford England, composer (Hiawatha)   

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

Jan 01   Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (b. 1801) died in the year 1862.   

Jan 05   Joseph Frohlich, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history death of felix Zollicoffer, Gen killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines   

Jan 24   On this day in history james McIntosh, US confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at about 33   

Feb 03   In the year 1862 jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87   

Feb 07   Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer, dies at 61 on this day in history.