Events Date 1862 P 2 | History by KabAstro

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Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Sep 22 US President Abraham Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, threatening to free all enslaved people in the rebel southern states if those states fail to re-join the Union by January 1, 1863 [1]

Otto von Bismarck

Sep 23 Otto von Bismarck appointed Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Prussia by King Wilhelm I

German Emperor and King of Prussia Wilhelm I

Sep 23 US President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is published in northern newspapers [1]
Sep 24 Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
Sep 25 Skirmish at Davis' Bridge, Tennessee
Sep 30 First Battle of Newtonia (American Civil War), Newton County, Missouri
Sep 30 Minister-President of Prussia Otto von Bismarck delivers his famous "Blood and Iron" speech on the unification of German territories
Oct 3 -10] Battle of Corinth, Mississippi
Oct 3 Skirmish at Bardstown, Kentucky
Oct 4 Battle of Corinth ends
Oct 5 Battle of Hatchie Bridge, Tennessee; confederate forces avoid capture by Union army
Oct 5 Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas
Oct 8 Battle of Perryville, Kentucky - Confederate invasion halted

Second Ride Around McClellan

Oct 12 Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart completes his "second ride around McClellan" during the Raid on Chambersburg

Oct 12 Major General Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Confederate troops in Mississippi
Oct 12 Skirmish at Monocacy, Maryland
Oct 14 Baseballer James Creighton ruptures bladder hitting HR, dies 10/18
Oct 14 Excelsiors defeat Unions of Morrisania 13-9
Oct 17 Battle of Leetown & Thoroughfare Gap, VA
Oct 18 Morgan's raiders capture federal garrison at Lexington, KY
Oct 20 Amnesty proclaimed for escaped slaves of Suriname
Oct 22 Battle at Old Fort Wayne, Indian Territory
Oct 22 Confederate troops reconquer Cumperland Gap, Tennessee
Nov 3 Battle until the 5th November between gunboats at Bayou Teche, a waterway in Louisiana

Gatling Gun

Nov 4 American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling patents the hand cranked Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis

Burnside Takes Charge

Nov 5 Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac

Union General, Politician and Industrialist Ambrose Burnside

Nov 5 Battle at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia: 51 casualties
Nov 6 New York-San Francisco direct telegraphic link forms

General Grant bars Jews

Nov 9 US General Ulysses S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him

Union General and US President Ulysses S. Grant

Nov 17 Confederate Secretary of War George B. Randolph resigns
Nov 17 Union General Ambrose Burnside marches north out of Washington, D.C., to begin the Fredericksburg campaign
Nov 20 Confederate armies of Mississippi and Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee, under General Braxton Bragg

La Forza del Destino

Nov 22 Opera "La Forza del Destino" by Giuseppe Verdi debuts at Bolshoi Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia [Nov 10 O.S.]

Historic Publication

Nov 24 M Levy publishes Gustave Flaubert's historical novel "Salammbô"

Nov 28 Battle at Cane Hill, Arkansas (475 casualties)
Nov 28 Battle of Hooly Spring, MS
Dec 5 Battle of Coffeeville: Confederate forces halt Ulysses S. Grant's Mississippi invasion via Tennessee
Dec 6 US President Abraham Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux Indians
Dec 7 Battle of Hartsville, TN
Dec 7 Battle of Prairie Grove, AR

Battle of Fredricksburg

Dec 11 Battle of Fredricksburg in Virginia begins between Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside

Dec 12 Battle of Dumfries, Virginia
Dec 12 Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed)
Dec 13 Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia (Marye's Heights)
Dec 14 Battle of Kinston, fought in Lenoir County, North Carolina begins (Goldsboro Expedition), Union victory (US Civil War)
Dec 16 Kingdom of Nepal accepts its constitution
Dec 17 General Ulysses S. Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee
Dec 18 Battle at Lexington, Tennessee (part of Forrest's Second Raid)
Dec 19 Skirmish at Jackson, Salem Church, Tennessee (80 casualties)
Dec 20 -Dec 20th] Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA
Dec 20 -Jan 3rd] Vicksburg campaign

Confederates Occupy Trenton, Kentucky

Dec 20 Confederate Army Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest occupies Trenton, Kentucky (US Civil War)

Confederate General and KKK Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest

Dec 20 Confederate raid on Union supplies at Holly Springs, Mississippi
Dec 22 -Jan 2nd) Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY

Jefferson Davis Labels Beast Butler a "Felon"

Dec 23 Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw & common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis

Dec 25 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, South Carolina
Dec 26 Largest mass execution in US history: 38 Dakota men were executed via hanging in the aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War in Mankato, Minnesota [1]
Dec 26 US Civil War: Battle of Dumfries begins in Virginia
Dec 26 US Navy formally commissions 1st hospital ship, the USS Red Rover - a captured Confederate sidewheel barracks ship converted for the purpose - for service on the Mississippi [1] [2]
Dec 27 Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, MS (Chickasaw Bayou)
Dec 27 Battle of Elizabethtown, Kentucky

Battle of Chichasaw Bayou

Dec 29 Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat General William T. Sherman

Dec 29 Bowling ball invented
Dec 31 -Jan 20th) Battle of Stone's River (Battle of Murfreesboro), Tennessee in US Civil War
Dec 31 President Abraham Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to the Union
Dec 31 Skirmish at Parker Cross Roads, Tennessee
Dec 31 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina