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 )

* 1862 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse

* 1934 – Louis Barthou, Prime Minister of France ( assassinated ) ( b. 1862 )

The first pasteurization test was completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard in April 1862.

The world expositions of 1851 London, 1853 New York, 1862 London, Philadelphia ( 1876 ), 1889 Paris, 1893 Chicago, 1900 Paris, 1901 Buffalo, 1904 St. Louis and 1915 San Francisco were landmarks in this respect.

* Charles Auguste Louis Joseph ( 21 October 1811-10 March 1865 ), created Duc de Morny by his half-brother, Napoleon III, in 1862.

In 1862 the North Missouri Railroad was consolidated with the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern Railroad.

Most famous Belgian authors are: Guido Gezelle ( 1830 – 1899 ), Emile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), Max Elskamp ( 1862 – 1931 ), Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 ), Paul van Ostaijen ( 1896 – 1926 ), Henri Michaux ( French born and educated in Belgium, 1899 – 1984 ) and Jacques Brel ( 1929 – 1978 ) and prose writers: Hendrik Conscience ( 1812 – 1883 ), Charles de Coster ( 1827 – 1879 ), Willem Elsschot ( 1882 – 1960 ), Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ), Georges Simenon 1903-1989, Louis Paul Boon ( 1912 – 1979 ), Hugo Claus ( 1929 – 2008 ), Pierre Mertens ( born in 1939 ) Ernest Claes ( 1885 – 1968 ), and, Amélie Nothomb ( born in 1967 ).

John Louis then served as the slave, non-combatant, personal-body-servant to his older nephew John Claiborne Thompson ( April 3, 1828-February 2, 1872 ), the son of his deceased half-sister Elizabeth Little Brown ( February 2, 1792-December 10, 1854 ), during John Claiborne Thompson's 12 months of service from May 1861 to May 1862 in the American Civil War, as evidenced by John Louis's application for a pension late in life.

He edited successively the Journal d ' Olivier Lefèvre d ' Ormesson ( 1860 – 1862 ), interesting for the history of the parlement of Paris during the minority of King Louis XIV ; Lettres du cardinal Mazarin pendant son ministère ( 6 vols, 1870-1891 ), continued by the vicomte G. d ' Avenel ; and Mémoires du duc de Saint-Simon, published for the first time according to the original manuscripts ( 2 editions, 1856-1858 and 1878-1881 ).

His increasing reputation as both performer and improviser continued to make Franck much in demand for inaugural or dedicatory recitals of new or rebuilt Cavaillé-Coll organs: Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély's new instrument at Saint-Sulpice ( 1862 ) and later for organs at Notre-Dame, Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, and La Trinité ; for some of these instruments, Franck had acted ( by himself or with Camille Saint-Saëns ) as consultant.

Therefore, Louise was selected to assume the role in her place, Alice was married to Prince Louis of Hesse in 1862, after which Helena assumed the role — described as the " crutch " of her mother's old age by one biographer — at her mother's side.

Jean Louis Barthou (; 25 August 1862 – 9 October 1934 ) was a French politician of the Third Republic.

* Louis Blanc-Blanc's 13-volume Histoire de la Révolution française ( 1847 – 1862 ) displays utopian socialist views, and sympathizes with Jacobinism.

From 1861 to 1863 Bonneville served as superintendent of recruiting in Missouri with a brief stint in 1862 as commander of Benton Barracks in St. Louis.

Anna Leonowens ( Irene Dunne ) and her son Louis ( Richard Lyon ) arrive in Bangkok in 1862 to tutor the King's ( Rex Harrison ) children.

Pasteurization, discovered by Louis Pasteur in 1862, was a significant advance in ensuring the micro-biological safety of food.

On January 11, 1862 the Eads ' built U. S. Gunboats St. Louis and Essex fought the Confederate gunboats CSS General Polk, CSS Ivy, and CSS Jackson at Lucas Bend, on the Mississippi River.

1846-1862: Anne IV Louis, Duke of Montmorency ( 1790 – 1862 ), son of

Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, and a Union gunboat flotilla assembled from the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, under Flag Officer Louis M Goldsborough, on 7 – 8 February 1862.

* 9 March-John J. Glennon, Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis and Cardinal ( born 1862 ).

Cross served as president of the Cairo & Fulton Railway ( later the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway from 1855 to 1862.

On August 4, 1862, Walke was promoted to captain and assumed command of the ironclad ram then under conversion from a river steamer at St. Louis.

Claude Bernard and he completed the first test on April 20, 1862.

** Claude Debussy, French composer ( b. 1862 )

* Claude Debussy ( 1862 – 1918 ), composer

* Claude Debussy ( 1862 – 1918 ), composer of European classical music

* Claude Debussy ( 1862 – 1918 ) French

Numerous composers after him wrote preludes with a similar purpose, such as Claude Debussy ( 1862 – 1918 ) and his two books of impressionistic piano preludes, which influenced many later composers.

From 1862, he studied at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts within the atelier of Swiss artist Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, where he became acquainted with Frédéric Bazille, Claude Monet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

* Claude Debussy ( 1862 – 1918 ), French composer

Claude Debussy's ( 1862 – 1918 ) Pélleas et Mélisande prelude measures 5-6.

Emma Bardac ( 1862 – 1934 ), née Moyse, was the mutual love interest of both Gabriel Fauré and Claude Debussy.

In 1862 he met in Normandy, in the famous ferme Saint-Siméon in Honfleur, with some of his artist friends, such as Alfred Sisley, Eugene Boudin, and the young Claude Monet, to all of whom Jongkind served as a mentor.

* Claude Farrer ( 1862 – 1940 )