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  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Jan, 1862
    Abraham Lincoln

    Lincoln replaced War Secretary Simon Cameron with Edwin Stanton

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Jan, 1862

    Lincoln painstakingly monitored the telegraph reports coming into the War Department. He tracked all phases of the effort, consulting with governors, and selecting generals based on their success, their state, and their party. In January 1862, after complaints of inefficiency and profiteering in the War Department, Lincoln replaced War Secretary Simon Cameron with Edwin Stanton. Stanton centralized the War Department's activities, auditing and canceling contracts, saving the federal government $17,000,000.




  • Columbia
    1862
    USA civil war

    Ending of slavery in the District of Columbia

    Columbia
    1862

    As Southerners resigned their seats in the Senate and the House, Republicans were able to pass projects that had been blocked by Southern senators before the war. These included the Morrill Tariff, land grant colleges, a Homestead Act, a transcontinental railroad, the National Bank Act, the authorization of United States Notes by the Legal Tender Act of 1862, and the ending of slavery in the District of Columbia.




  • U.S.
    Tuesday Mar 11, 1862
    Abraham Lincoln

    Lincoln removed McClellan

    U.S.
    Tuesday Mar 11, 1862

    In 1862 Lincoln removed McClellan for the general's continued inaction. He elevated Henry Halleck in July and appointed John Pope as head of the new Army of Virginia.




  • Tennessee, United States
    1862
    USA civil war

    Army of the Tennessee was a Union army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War

    Tennessee, United States
    1862

    "Army of the Tennessee" was first used within the Union Army in March 1862, to describe Union forces perhaps more properly described as the "Army of West Tennessee"; these were the troops under the command of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the Union's District of West Tennessee.




  • Saint Petersburg, Russia
    Friday Apr 4, 1862
    Dmitri Mendeleev

    The Engagement

    Saint Petersburg, Russia
    Friday Apr 4, 1862

    On 4 April 1862, Mendeleev got engaged to Feozva Nikitichna Leshcheva in Saint Petersburg, Russia.




  • U.S
    1862
    USA civil war

    Union naval attacked Forts Jackson and St. Philip

    U.S
    1862

    In April 1862, a Union naval task force commanded by Commander David D. Porter attacked Forts Jackson and St. Philip, which guarded the river approach to New Orleans from the south. While part of the fleet bombarded the forts, other vessels forced a break in the obstructions in the river and enabled the rest of the fleet to steam upriver to the city.




  • Saint Petersburg, Russia
    Sunday Apr 27, 1862
    Dmitri Mendeleev

    The Marriage

    Saint Petersburg, Russia
    Sunday Apr 27, 1862

    Together, Mendeleev and Feozva Nikitichna Leshcheva got married on 27 April 1862 at Nikolaev Engineering Institute's church in St. Petersburg. Together they raised two children, a son named Volodya and a daughter Olga, who he named after his beloved sister.


  • Hardin County, Tennessee, United States
    Apr, 1862
    USA civil war

    Battle of Shiloh

    Hardin County, Tennessee, United States
    Apr, 1862

    The Battle of Shiloh was a major battle in the western theater of the American Civil War. The fighting was on April 6-7, 1862 in southwest Tennessee, where Union forces under Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and BGT Beauregard were against Union Army forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant.


  • Puebla City, Mexico
    Monday May 5, 1862
    Mexican Revolution

    The Battle of Puebla

    Puebla City, Mexico
    Monday May 5, 1862

    In the 19th century, Díaz had been a national hero, opposing the French Intervention in the 1860s and distinguishing himself in the Battle of Puebla on 5 May 1862 ("Cinco de Mayo").


  • U.S.
    May, 1862
    Abraham Lincoln

    Lincoln rejected Fremont's two emancipation attempts

    U.S.
    May, 1862

    Lincoln rejected Fremont's two emancipation attempts in August 1861, as well as one by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and would upset loyal border states.


  • Palermo, Italy
    Jun, 1862
    Unification of Italy

    Garibaldi sailed from Genoa and landed again at Palermo

    Palermo, Italy
    Jun, 1862

    In June 1862, he sailed from Genoa and landed again at Palermo, where he gathered volunteers for the campaign, under the slogan o Roma o Morte. The garrison of Messina, loyal to the king's instructions, barred their passage to the mainland. Garibaldi's force, now numbering two thousand, turned south and set sail from Catania.


  • U.S.
    Jun, 1862
    Abraham Lincoln

    1862 midterm elections

    U.S.
    Jun, 1862

    McClellan then resisted the president's demand that he pursue Lee's withdrawing army, while General Don Carlos Buell likewise refused orders to move the Army of the Ohio against rebel forces in eastern Tennessee. Lincoln replaced Buell with William Rosecrans; and after the 1862 midterm elections he replaced McClellan with Ambrose Burnside. The appointments were both politically neutral and adroit on Lincoln's part.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Jun, 1862
    Abraham Lincoln

    Congress passed an act banning slavery on all federal territory

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Jun, 1862

    In June 1862, Congress passed an act banning slavery on all federal territory, which Lincoln signed.


  • Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
    Jul, 1862
    Memorial day

    Savannah graves decoration

    Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
    Jul, 1862

    In July 1862, women in Savannah, Georgia decorated the graves at Laurel Grove Cemetery of Colonel Francis S. Bartow and his comrades who died at Battle of Manassas (First Battle of Bull Run) the year before.


  • Gospić, Austrian Empire (Present day Gospić, Croatia)
    1862
    Nikola Tesla

    Tesla family moved to the nearby Gospić

    Gospić, Austrian Empire (Present day Gospić, Croatia)
    1862

    In 1862, the Tesla family moved to the nearby Gospić, where Tesla's father worked as parish priest. Nikola completed primary school, followed by middle school.


  • U.S.
    Thursday Jul 17, 1862
    Abraham Lincoln

    Confiscation Act of 1862

    U.S.
    Thursday Jul 17, 1862

    In July, the Confiscation Act of 1862 was enacted, providing court procedures to free the slaves of those convicted of aiding the rebellion; Lincoln approved the bill despite his belief that it was unconstitutional.


  • Rome, Italy
    1862
    Unification of Italy

    Garibaldi declared that he would enter Rome as a victor or perish beneath its walls

    Rome, Italy
    1862

    Garibaldi declared that he would enter Rome as a victor or perish beneath its walls. He landed at Melito on 14 August and marched at once into the Calabrian mountains.


  • Minnesota, Dakota Territory
    Sunday Aug 17, 1862
    Abraham Lincoln

    Sioux Uprising

    Minnesota, Dakota Territory
    Sunday Aug 17, 1862

    On August 17, 1862, the Sioux Uprising in Minnesota, supported by the Yankton Indians, killed hundreds of white settlers, forced 30,000 from their homes, and deeply alarmed the Lincoln administration.


  • U.S.
    Friday Aug 22, 1862
    Abraham Lincoln

    A wish

    U.S.
    Friday Aug 22, 1862

    Privately, Lincoln concluded that the Confederacy's slave base had to be eliminated. Copperheads argued that emancipation was a stumbling block to peace and reunification; Republican editor Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune agreed. In a letter of August 22, 1862, Lincoln said that while he personally wished all men could be free, regardless of that, his first obligation as president was to preserve the Union: My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union ... I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.


  • Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
    1862
    Lothar Meyer

    Die modernen Theorien der Chemie

    Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
    1862

    His book, Die modernen Theorien der Chemie, which he began writing in Breslau in 1862 and which was published two years later, contained an early version of the periodic table containing 28 elements, classified elements into six families by their valence—for the first time, elements had been grouped according to their valence. Works on organizing the elements by atomic weight, until then had been stymied by the widespread use of equivalent weights for the elements, rather than atomic weights.


  • Italy
    Thursday Aug 28, 1862
    Unification of Italy

    Two forces met in the Aspromonte

    Italy
    Thursday Aug 28, 1862

    On 28 August the two forces met in the Aspromonte. One of the regulars fired a chance shot, and several volleys followed, but Garibaldi forbade his men to return fire on fellow subjects of the Kingdom of Italy. The volunteers suffered several casualties, and Garibaldi himself was wounded; many were taken, prisoner.


  • Italy
    Thursday Aug 28, 1862
    Unification of Italy

    August the two forces met in the Aspromonte

    Italy
    Thursday Aug 28, 1862

    On 28 August the two forces met in the Aspromonte. One of the regulars fired a chance shot, and several volleys followed, but Garibaldi forbade his men to return fire on fellow subjects of the Kingdom of Italy. The volunteers suffered several casualties, and Garibaldi himself was wounded; many were taken prisoner.


  • Prince William County, Virginia, U.S.
    Friday Aug 29, 1862
    Abraham Lincoln

    Second Battle of Bull Run

    Prince William County, Virginia, U.S.
    Friday Aug 29, 1862

    Pope was then soundly defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the summer of 1862, forcing the Army of the Potomac back to defend Washington. Despite his dissatisfaction with McClellan's failure to reinforce Pope, Lincoln restored him to command of all forces around Washington.


  • Washington County, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, U.S.
    Wednesday Sep 17, 1862
    Abraham Lincoln

    Battle of Antietam

    Washington County, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, U.S.
    Wednesday Sep 17, 1862

    General Robert E. Lee's forces crossed the Potomac River into Maryland, leading to the Battle of Antietam. That battle, a Union victory, was among the bloodiest in American history; it facilitated Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in January.


  • U.S.
    Monday Sep 22, 1862
    Juneteenth

    President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

    U.S.
    Monday Sep 22, 1862

    During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862.


  • Ohio, United States
    Monday Nov 24, 1862
    USA civil war

    Army of the Cumberland was one of the principal Union armies

    Ohio, United States
    Monday Nov 24, 1862

    The Army of the Cumberland was one of the principal Union armies in the Western Theater during the American Civil War. It was originally known as the Army of the Ohio. The origin of the Army of the Cumberland dates back to the creation of the Army of the Ohio in November 1861, under the command of Brig. Gen. Robert Anderson.


  • Spotsylvania County and Fredericksburg, Virginia, U.S.
    Thursday Dec 11, 1862
    Abraham Lincoln

    Battle of Fredericksburg

    Spotsylvania County and Fredericksburg, Virginia, U.S.
    Thursday Dec 11, 1862

    Burnside, against presidential advice, launched an offensive across the Rappahannock River and was defeated by Lee at Fredericksburg in December. Desertions during 1863 came in the thousands and only increased after Fredericksburg, so Lincoln replaced Burnside with Joseph Hooker.


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