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 )

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

The senior generals sent to the fort to command the enlarged garrison, Gideon J. Pillow and John B. Floyd, squandered their chance to avoid having to surrender most of the garrison and on February 16, 1862, Brig.

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 ".

A New Yorker named John Kennedy wrote to the U. S. Army in 1862, offering to furnish discs for all officers and men in the Federal Army, enclosing a design for the disc.

John Macdonald's mother was a lifelong influence on her son, helping him in his difficult first marriage and remaining a force in his life until her 1862 death.

They had two sons: Victor Gifford ( 1809 – 1860 ) and John Woodhouse Audubon ( 1812 – 1862 ); and two daughters who died while young: Lucy at two years ( 1815 – 1817 ) and Rose at nine months ( 1819 – 1820 ).

In the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, Stuart and his cavalry — most notably his horse artillery under Major John Pelham — protected Stonewall Jackson's flank at Hamilton's Crossing.

* 1862 – John Jay Chapman, American author ( d. 1933 )

* 1862 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General James G. Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.

This 1862 painting by John Rogers Herbert depicts monks at work in the fields with an abbey ( the Trappist Mount St. Bernard Abbey ) in the background

* 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.

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.

* March 29 – John Tyler, 10th President of the United States ( d. 1862 )

* September 3 – John Drew Sr., Irish-American stage actor & manager, ( d. 1862 )

** John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury ( d. 1862 )

While serving in the army in early 1862, Garfield was approached by friends about political opportunities resulting from the redrawn 19th Ohio Congressional District ; it was believed that the incumbent, John Hutchins, was vulnerable.

* John Marchmont's Legacy ( 1862 – 3 )

James Strom Thurmond was born on December 5, 1902, in Edgefield, South Carolina, the son of Eleanor Gertrude ( Strom ) ( July 18, 1870 – January 10, 1958 ) and John William Thurmond ( May 1, 1862 – June 17, 1934 ), a lawyer.

John Ross, who had reluctantly agreed to ally with the Confederacy, was captured by Federal troops in 1862.

A master of hit-and-run cavalry tactics, Watie fought those Cherokee loyal to John Ross and Federal troops in Indian Territory and Arkansas, capturing Union supply trains and steamboats, and saving a Confederate army by covering their retreat after the Battle of Pea Ridge in March 1862.

John C. Calhoun, CSA issue of 1862

In July 1862, Lincoln installed Colonel John S. Phelps as Military Governor of Arkansas, though he resigned soon after due to poor health.

As early as 1862, during the Civil War, Grant had appointed the Ohio military chaplain John Eaton to protect and gradually incorporate refugee slaves in west Tennessee and northern Mississippi into the Union War effort, and pay them for their labor.