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.

* April 25 – Emilio Salgari, Italian writer ( b. 1862 )

In addition, the script of Cabiria was partially based on Gustave Flaubert's 1862 novel Salammbo and Emilio Salgari's 1908 novel Cartagine in fiamme ( Carthage in Flames ).

In 1862 he started exploratory tours of the Italian Alps and Hohe Tauern in his free time.

The first was the English Alpine Club ( founded in the winter of 1857 – 1858 ), followed in 1862 by the Austrian Alpine Club ( which in 1873 was fused, under the name of the German and Austrian Alpine Club, with the German Alpine Club, founded in 1869 ), in 1863 by the Italian and Swiss Alpine Clubs, and in 1874 by the French Alpine Club, not to mention numerous minor societies of more local character.

From 1862 to 1870, he served as a deputy in the Italian parliament at Turin.

Giuseppe Montanelli ( January 1, 1813 – June 17, 1862 ) was an Italian statesman and author.

In 1862 Whymper made further attempts, still from the south side, on the Lion ridge ( or Italian ridge ), where the route seemed easier than the Hörnli ridge ( the normal route today ).

In danger of running out of stamps altogether, at the end of 1862 the Italian government once again turned to Matraire, who quickly produced a 15c value by lithography.

Moltke watched the Italian campaign closely and wrote a history of it ( published in 1862 ).

On changing his views on this policy, he became president of the lower chamber in the first Italian Parliament, and in March 1862 succeeded Ricasoli in the government, retaining for himself the portfolios of Foreign Affairs and of the Interior.

* Luigi Taparelli D ’ Azeglio ( 1793 – 1862 ), his brother ; an Italian Jesuit scholar who coined the term social justice.

She was painted by the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini ( acquired by Maurice Rothschild ) and by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury ( 1862 – 1947 ).

From 1862 to 1867, the theatre was managed by James Henry Mapleson, presenting Italian, French and German opera, including the British premières of La forza del destino, Médée, Faust and The Merry Wives of Windsor, and promoting such singers as Mario, Giulia Grisi, De Murska, Thérèse Tietjens, Antonio Giuglini, Charles Santley and Christine Nilsson.

* superb comb builder :- Writing in Switzerland in 1862, H. C. Hermann stated the comb of an Italian bee-cell occupied only 15 cells for every 16 of the common black bee, and the cubic content was larger by 30 per cent.

* 1862 introduced to Australia, on 9 December into Victoria aboard the steam ship Alhambra There is strong evidence this introduction failed as the emerging Italian virgin queens hybridised with the English ' black ' bee.

He asked Italian opera star Adelina Patti to perform it for him and his wife when she appeared at the White House in 1862.

Some ill-defined measures of blockade followed, such as that of 1860, when Victor Emmanuel, then king of Sardinia, joined the revolutionary government of Naples in blockading ports in Sicily, then held by the king of Naples, without any rupture of pacific relations between the two governments ; that of 1862, in which Great Britain blockaded the port of Rio de Janeiro, to exact redress for pillage of an English vessel by the local population, at the same time declaring that she continued to be, on friendly terms with the emperor of Brazil ; and that in 1880, when a demonstration was made before the port of Ulcinj by a fleet of British, German, French, Austrian, Russian and Italian men-of-war, to compel the Turkish government to carry out the treaty conceding this town to Montenegro, and it was announced that if the town was not given up by the Turkish forces it would be blockaded.

* Giuseppe Montanelli ( 1813 – 1862 ), Italian statesman and author.

Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows ( born Francesco Possenti March 1, 1838 – February 27, 1862 ) was an Italian Passionist clerical student.

Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys returned to power 7 years later, in 1862, when foreign minister Édouard Thouvenel resigned over differences with Napoleon on Italian affairs.

The works of Carlo Botta are Storia naturale e medica deli Isola di Corfu ( 1798 ); an Italian translation of Born's Joannis Physiophili specimen monachologiae ( 1801 ); Souvenirs d ' un voyage en Dalmatie ( 1802 ); Storia della guerra dell ' Independenza d ' America ( 1809 ); Camillo, a poem ( 1815 ); Storia d ' Italia dal 1789 al 1814 ( 1824, new ed., Prato, 1862 ); Storia d ' Italia in continuazione al Guicciardini ( 1832, new ed, Milan, 1878 ).

* Enrico Caviglia ( 1862 – 1945 ), distinguished officer in the Italian army

The Battle of Aspromonte, also known as The Day of Aspromonte ( in Italian: " La Giornata dell ' Aspromonte "), named for the mountain near Reggio Calabria in southern Italy where it took place in August 29, 1862, was an inconclusive episode of the Italian unification process.

In 1862 he was elected a deputy to the Italian parliament, and in 1876 a senator.