Albert Sidney Johnston ( February 2, 1803 – April 6, 1862 ) served as a general in three different armies: the Texas Army, the United States Army, and the Confederate States Army.

* Connelly, Thomas L. Army of the Heartland: The Army of Tennessee 1861 – 1862.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins – in Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The Andrews Raid ( the Great Locomotive Chase ) occurred, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia ( now Kennesaw ).

* 1862 – American Civil War: the Confederate ironclad is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain – At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.

Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.

In the mid-19th century important leaders included Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803 – 1882 ) and Henry David Thoreau ( 1817 – 1862 ).

* 1862 – Victoria of Baden ( d. 1931 )

* 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.

* 1834 – Charles Lennox Richardson, English merchant ( d. 1862 )

* 1862 – American Civil War: New Orleans, Louisiana falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.

* 1862 – Amos Alonzo Stagg, American baseball player and coach ( d. 1965 )

* 1862 – American Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Lakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Major General J. E. B.

* 1862 – American Indian Wars: during an uprising in Minnesota, Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily-defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way.

* 1862 – Emilio Salgari, Italian writer ( d. 1911 )

In 1862, after Wallachia and Moldavia were united to form the Principality of Romania, Bucharest became the new nation's capital ; in 1881, it became the political centre of the newly-proclaimed Kingdom of Romania under Carol I.

Between 1564 and 1859, the city was the capital of Moldavia ; then, between 1859 and 1862, both Iași and Bucharest were de-facto capitals of the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia.

In 1862, when the union of the two principalities was recognized under the name of Romania, the national capital was established in Bucharest.

During the reign of Domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza ( 1859 – 1866 ), Catargiu was one of the Opposition leaders, and received much assistance from his kinsman, Barbu Catargiu ( b. 1807 ), a noted journalist and politician, who was assassinated in Bucharest on the June 20, 1862.

On 15 February 1862, Catargiu was sworn in as the first prime minister of Romania, ruling from Bucharest.

* Ion Alexandrescu, Ion Bulei, Ion Mamina, and Ioan Scurtu, Partidele politice din România, 1862 – 1994: Enciclopedie, Bucharest, Editura Mediaprint, 1995 ; fragment published in Dosarele Istoriei, 12 / III 1998, p. 26-27

On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.

Edward Bishop Elliott, in the Horae Apocalypticae ( 1862 ), argues that John wrote the book in exile on Patmos " at the close of the reign of Domitian ; that is near the end of the year 95 or beginning of 96 ".

Although The Moonstone is usually seen as the first detective novel, a number of critics suggest that the lesser known Notting Hill Mystery ( 1862 – 63 ), written by the pseudonymous " Charles Felix ", preceded it by a number of years and first used techniques that would come to define the genre.

A New York Times transcript from an Abraham Lincoln speech written in 1862 contains "( applause and laughter "; there is some debate as to whether it is a typo, a legitimate punctuation construct, or an emoticon.

Ice melting in a warm room is a common Entropy # Ice melting example | example of increasing entropy, described in 1862 by Rudolf Clausius as an increase in the disgregation of the water molecules in ice: order leading to disorder

* 1862 – Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.

** The Battle of Harpers Ferry ( September 12 – 15, 1862 ), a battle in the American Civil War that took place around what is now Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

* 1862 – The first American ironclad warship, the is launched.

* 1862 – Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.

* 1862 – As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Truong Dinh decides to defy Emperor Tu Duc of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.

* 1862 – The Russian State Library is founded.

* 1862 – American Civil War: David Farragut is promoted to rear admiral, becoming the first officer in United States Navy to hold an admiral rank.

* 1862 – The Medal of Honor is authorized by the United States Congress.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The ironclad is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The iron-clad ( formerly ) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.

Adam Opel AG ( Opel ) is a German automobile company founded by Adam Opel in 1862.

On 30 September 1862, Bismarck made a speech to the Budget Committee of the Prussian Chamber of Deputies, which included Bismarck's emphasis on using " iron and blood "— that is, military power — to achieve his goals.

The oldest polo club in the world still in existence is the Calcutta Polo Club ( 1862 ).

* 1862 – Slavery in the United States: a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.