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 )

* Frank Hamilton Short, conservationist and advocate for states ' rights and private development of natural resources in the early 20th century ( born in Shelby County in 1862 )

* Magill, Frank Northern ( editor ) ( 1979 ) " Santaroga Barrier, The – Frank Herbert " Survey of Science Fiction Literature Salem Press, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, pp. 1859 – 1862, ISBN 0-89356-194-0

He considered himself to be the least intelligent of their children ( brothers Frank, George and Horace were all elected Fellows of the Royal Society ) and was sent to Clapham School in 1862.

Frank Nelson Doubleday ( January 8, 1862 – January 30, 1934 ), known to friends and family as “ Effendi ”, founded the eponymous Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897, which later operated under other names.

In the 19th century John Cox Dillman Engleheart ( 1784 – 1862 ), nephew of George ; Andrew Robertson ( 1777 – 1845 ), George Beaumont, William Behnes, Thomas Frank Heaphy and Anne Mee must be mentioned ; William Corden the Elder ( 1795 – 1867 ) is also popular with collectors.

* First ascent by a woman-Lucy Walker July 15, 1862 with Frank Walker and guide Melchior Anderegg

* Frank Bacon ( 1862 – 1917 ), director of Bristol City Football Club

* Frank GardinerAustralian bushranger and mastermind of the Forbes gold escort robbery at Eugowra on 15 June 1862 ( sentenced to 32 years, but pardoned early ).

Receiving wounded at Fort Monroe as illustrated in Frank Leslie's paper, August 16, 1862

The Ball Brothers from left to right: William Charles Ball ( 1852 – 1921 ), Frank Clayton Ball ( 1857 – 1943 ), Lucius Lorenzo Ball ( seated ) ( 1850 – 1932 ), Edmund Burke Ball ( 1855 – 1925 ), George Alexander Ball ( 1862 – 1955 )

* Frank Burr Mallory ( 1862 – 1941 ), American pathologist for whom the Mallory body is named

Frank Howe Sugg ( 11 January 1862 – 29 May 1933 ) was an English footballer and first-class cricketer.

In 1862, the club sought and gained the permission of Frank Playford, the only traceable member of " The Thames Club " which had rowed on the Tideway in the 1840s, to rename itself " The Thames Rowing Club ".

Frank Weston Benson, frequently referred to as Frank W. Benson, ( March 24, 1862 – November 15, 1951 ) was an American artist from Salem, Massachusetts known for his Realistic portraits, American Impressionist paintings, watercolors and etchings.

* Frank Weston Benson ( 1862 – 1951 ), American impressionist artist

* Frank Broadstreet Carvell ( 1862 – 1924 ), Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician

Holmes was the daughter of Norwegian immigrant Louis A. Holmes ( born in Norway in October 1862 ), a railroad clerk employed by the Illinois Central Railroad, who had migrated to the United States in 1867, and his wife Sophia ( born April 1869 in Indiana ), and was the sister of Frank O. Holmes ( born June 1889 in Illinois ) and Florence ( born in May 1896 in Illinois ), and two other siblings who died in infancy.

* Frank Morton McMurry ( 1862 – 1936 ), American educator

* 1824 – William " Bull " Nelson, American navy officer ( d. 1862 )

Before the city of Cabot existed, an 1862 typhoid epidemic took the lives of about 1500 Confederate soldiers previously under Allison Nelson who were camped in the hills surrounding Cabot and nearby Austin, Arkansas.

* William " Bull " Nelson ( 1824 – 1862 ), Union army general in the U. S. American Civil War

Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery is a historic cemetery located near Cabot in northern Lonoke County, Arkansas and is the site of Confederate military camp where 1, 500 Confederate soldiers died during an epidemic during the fall of 1862.

This species was first introduced to New Zealand in 1862 as part of shipment of birds to Nelson.

He took up temporary residence at Louisville's Galt House hotel and was still residing there when Union General William " Bull " Nelson was killed by a fellow soldier there in 1862.

During this time of convalescence, on September 29, 1862, Davis got into an argument with his superior officer, Maj. Gen. William " Bull " Nelson, in the Galt House in Louisville, Kentucky.

Allison Nelson ( March 11, 1822 – October 7, 1862 ) was the ninth mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, as well as a brigadier general in the Confederate army during the American Civil War.

Union Army | Union Gen. Jefferson C. Davis shoots Union Gen. William " Bull " Nelson at the Galt House in 1862

In September 1862, it was the scene of an unusual murder, when General Jefferson C. Davis ( not to be confused with Confederate President Jefferson Davis ) shot Union General William " Bull " Nelson after a dispute.