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 )

By warning that free blacks would flood the North, Democrats made gains in the 1862 elections, but they did not gain control of Congress.

By 1862, Crookes was able to isolate small quantities of the new element and determine the properties of a few compounds.

By 1862, ski jumpers were tackling much larger jumps and traveling longer.

By 1862, Steinway pianos had received more than 35 medals in the United States alone.

By 1862, shortly after a failed crop the year before and a winter starvation, the federal payment was late.

By 1862, the war was over and Vietnam conceded three provinces in the south, called by the French Cochin-China, opened three ports to French trade, allowed free passage of French warships to Cambodia ( which led to a French protectorate over Cambodia in 1863 ), allowed freedom of action for French missionaries and gave France a large indemnity for the cost of the war.

By 1862 Stanford's map of London shows large homes had been constructed along Penge New Road ( now Crystal Palace Park Road, Sydenham and Penge High Street ), Thick Wood ( now Thicket ) Road and Anerley Road.

By 1862, the telegraph line passed near Marshfield on a route later called the “ Old Wire Road .”

By 1862, after a decade of forcible removals, the last of the native Concow inhabitants were kept on a cramped reservation at Round Valley with unrelated people relocated from surrounding regions.

By 1862 Miller had 10 children, and in 1864 donated a 3 / 4 acre site next to Miller Creek to have the Dixie School built upon it.

By 1862 121 families were in the Reems Creek Area, many owning more than 1, 000 acres.

By the 1860s, tolls were no longer being charged to cross the Washington and Central Bridges, giving further stimulus to the growth of Watchemoket and the transformation of the village from a sleepy fishing area to the vital core of East Providence in 1862.

By late 1862, Henrietta was abandoned, as white settlers fled back east to Cooke and Montague counties.

By 1862, 681 non-Native Americans were reported to be residents of Pierce County.

By the winter of 1862 – 1863 there were 7, 000 unemployed operatives in the town.

By 1862 about 1, 000 Maya established themselves in ten villages in this area, with the center in San Pedro.

By 1862, Hermann von Helmholtz had described a ray of light as the " quickest of all the messengers ".

By 1866, the Waldeck contingent was styled Fürstlisches Waldecksches Füselier-Bataillon, and in the Austro-Prussian War of that year Waldeck ( already in a military convention with Prussia from 1862 ) allied with the Prussians ; however the Battalion saw no action.

By 1862 the war was over and Vietnam conceded three provinces in the south, called by the French Cochinchina, opened three ports to French trade, allowed free passage of French warships to Kampuchea ( which led to a French protectorate over Kampuchea in 1863 ), allowed freedom of action for French missionaries and gave France a large indemnity for the cost of the war.

By the 1860s, the village needed a higher order of administration and it was made a burgh in 1864, under the General Police ( Scotland ) Act 1862.

By 1862, Minnesota had established Congressional districts, and in that year he was re-elected from Minnesota's 1st congressional district ; and also in 1864 and 1866.

By August 1862, the authorities in Richmond decided to replace him with the well-meaning but incompetent Theophilus H. Holmes.

By 20 May 1862, McKinlay was around five miles ( 8 km ) from the shore of the Gulf, but the intervening country was found to be impassable and he decided to turn east and make for Port Denison on the north Queensland coast.

By April 1862, the Confederate States of America found it necessary to pass a conscription act, which drafted men into PACS.