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 )

Lincoln removed McClellan as general-in-chief and appointed Henry Wager Halleck in March 1862, after McClellan's " Harrison's Landing Letter ", in which he offered unsolicited political advice to Lincoln urging caution in the war effort.

Alerted by a Union reconnaissance on January 14, 1862, Johnston ordered Tilghman to fortify the high ground opposite Fort Henry, which Polk had failed to do despite Johnston's orders.

On February 6, 1862, Union Navy gunboats quickly reduced the defenses of ill-sited Fort Henry, inflicting 21 casualties on the small remaining Confederate force.

* Gott, Kendall D. Where the South Lost the War: An Analysis of the Fort Henry — Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862.

Henry David Thoreau died on May 6, 1862, likely from an illness he caught from Alcott two years earlier.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The U. S. Navy gives the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.

Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau ( 1817 – 1862 ) was an important early influence in individualist anarchist thought in the United States and Europe.

Henry David Thoreau ( 1817 – 1862 ) was an important early influence in individualist anarchist thought in the United States and Europe.

* 1910 – O. Henry, American author ( b. 1862 )

* 1817 – Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher ( d. 1862 )

* 1862 – American Civil War: Henry Halleck takes command of the Union Army.

Early in 1862, Confederate forces in Texas under General Henry Hopkins Sibley invaded New Mexico Territory.

* Henry Fothergill Chorley ( 1862 ), Thirty Years ' Musical Recollections.

In 1862, Henry Letheby obtained a partly conductive material by anodic oxidation of aniline in sulfuric acid.

* 1862 – O. Henry, American author ( d. 1910 )

* 1862 – James Glaisher, pioneering meteorologist and Henry Tracey Coxwell break world record for altitude whilst collecting data in their balloon.

The death of Henry senior at the age of 82 occurred in 1862 and although his own son was not a business man of the same determination, the firm ’ s expansion continued adequately with John Mares, who had come to the financial assistance of the Shepherd Brewery during the recession of the mid-1840s and continued as the impetus behind Shepherd and Mares until Percy Beale Neame joined the Brewery in 1864.

Grant's troops, in close collaboration with the Union Navy under Foote, successfully captured Fort Henry on the Tennessee River on February 6, 1862 and nearby Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River on February 16.

* March 10 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1862 )

** Henry George, Jr., American politician ( b. 1862 )

* June 5 – O. Henry, American novelist ( b. 1862 )

* July 12 – Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher ( d. 1862 )

* George Boomer ( 1862 – 1915 ), American socialist journalist, newspaper editor, and political activist

* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys – Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.

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

* 1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time.

* 1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.

* 1862 – Denis St. George Daly, Irish polo player ( d. 1942 )

* 1862 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history.

* June 4 – George Frederick Phillips, Canadian-born military hero ( b. 1862 )

* May 30 – George Ernest Morrison, Australian adventurer ( b. 1862 )

During the American Civil War, General George B. McClellan stayed at the Beall Dawson house in 1862.

Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign took an amphibious approach, landing his Army of the Potomac on the Virginia Peninsula in the spring of 1862 and coming within of Richmond before being turned back by Gen. Robert E. Lee in the Seven Days Battles.

In 1862 during Union General George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign, Olmsted headed the medical effort for the sick and wounded at White House in New Kent County, where there was a ship landing on the Pamunkey River.

After Lincoln installed Brigadier General George F. Sheply as Military Governor of Louisiana in May 1862, Sheply sent two anti-slavery representatives, Benjamin Flanders and Michael Hahn, elected in December 1862, to the House which capitulated and voted to seat them.

Then on September 22, 1862, George McClellan defeated Robert E. Lee at Antietam ; the second draft of the Emancipation Proclamation was issued to the public the following day.

During the American Civil War, Union troops occupied Berkeley Plantation, and President Abraham Lincoln twice visited there in the summer of 1862 to confer with Gen. George B. McClellan.

* Vasey, George 1862.

During the American Civil War, Urbanna was initially planned as the point of landing for General George B. McClellan's 1862 Peninsula Campaign of 1862 to take Richmond, but ultimately, the failed campaign utilized Fort Monroe as its starting point, almost doubling the distance by land to the Confederate citadel.

* 1862 One hundred Llano County volunteers join Major John George Walker Division of the Confederate States Army.

It was originally called Hudson Town, after George Hudson, the " Railway King ;", but the settlement quickly became better known as Stratford New Town, which by 1862 had a population of 20, 000.

The Royal Merchant Navy School was founded in St George in the East, London in 1827 before moving to Hermon Hill, Wanstead in 1862.

One of the largest items is the Hereford Screen, weighing nearly 8 tonnes, 10. 5 metres high and 11 metres wide, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1862 for the chancel in Hereford Cathedral, from which it was removed in 1967.