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 )

Princess Dagmar and her ill-fated fiance Tsarevich Nicholas. The marriage of Princess Dagmar of Denmark to Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovitch. The Anichkov Palace in 1862. The rise of Slavophile ideology in the Russian Empire led Alexander II of Russia to search for a bride for the heir apparent, Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Russia, in countries other than the German states that had traditionally provided consorts for the tsars.

She was then sanctioned by the Queen to marry Captain James Davies at St Nicholas ' Church in Brighton in August, 1862, after a period which was to be spent in the town in preparation for the wedding.

* Nicholas Mills ( 1781 – 1862 ), American businessman

The Ottomans ultimately withdrew in 1862, and the nearby fortress called " Soko Grad " was torn down, to be turned into the monastery of St. Nicholas.

* Nicholas Sparks ( politician ) ( 1794 – 1862 ), American politician.

Nicholas Murray Butler ( April 2, 1862 – December 7, 1947 ) was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator.

* Nicholas Grattan-Doyle ( 1862 – 1941 ), British Conservative Party politician

Nicholas Sparks ( 1794 – February 27, 1862 ) was an early landholder of Ottawa, Canada who owned most of the lands in the present day commercial core of Downtown Ottawa.

Image: F. O. C. Darley illustration-A Visit From Saint Nicholas-1862-Project Gutenberg eText 17382. jpg | Darley illustration from an 1862 print of A Visit From Saint Nicholas, by Clement Clarke Moore

* A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore, in an 1862 edition illustrated by F. O. C. Darley, from Project Gutenberg

Nicholas Mills Sr. ( 23 November 1781 – 13 September 1862 ) was a prominent businessman in Richmond, Virginia.

In 1862 the estate was owned by Nicholas Pitts of South Allington, and the country mansion called Whympston House was purchased in 1916 by the Plymouth Co-Operative Society Ltd. as a holiday home for its members.

In the spring of 1862 the general of the Union forces stationed in Paducah, Kentucky made his way to the Tennessee River, taking whatever property he wanted from the Murray townspeople.

Due to the Dakota Conflict episode at Lake Shetek in 1862 and the Civil War there were only a few settlers in Murray County.

* 1862: Hobart's post office moves to rebuilt courthouse on corner of Macquarie St and Murray St

Richard Barnes Mason was a grandson of George Mason ( 1725 – 1792 ); son of George Mason V ( 1753 – 1796 ); brother of George Mason VI ( 1786 – 1834 ); grandnephew of Thomson Mason ( 1733 – 1785 ); first cousin once removed of Stevens Thomson Mason ( 1760 – 1803 ), John Thomson Mason ( 1765 – 1824 ), and William Temple Thomson Mason ( 1782 – 1862 ); first cousin of Thomson Francis Mason ( 1785 – 1838 ) and James Murray Mason ( 1798 – 1871 ); second cousin of Armistead Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1819 ), John Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1850 ), and John Thomson Mason, Jr. ( 1815 – 1873 ); and second cousin once removed of Stevens Thomson Mason ( 1811 – 1843 ).

" Enumeration of the plants collected by Dr J Murray during Mr A Howitt's Expedition into Central Australia in the year 1862 ".

In 1862 Victorian Railways lines had reached the great gold rush towns of Bendigo and Ballarat, and in 1864 railways were extended to the Murray River port of Echuca.

* Daniel Murray ( mathematician ) ( 1862 – 1934 ), Canadian mathematician

* Daniel Murray ( mathematician ) ( born 1862 ) Canadian mathematician

* James Joseph Butler ( 1862 – 1917 ), U. S. Representative from Missouri

By the summer of 1862, Melanie and Scarlett have been re-acquainted to a man they met during Melanie's engagement celebration: Captain Rhett Butler, at the time about 35 years old.

In 1862, during the Union army's occupation of New Orleans in the American Civil War, the military governor, Benjamin Franklin Butler, sentenced William B. Mumford to death for removing an American flag.

Union forces occupied all the Butler plantations beginning in February 1862.

* William James Butler ( 1862 – 1934 ), New Zealand sawmiller and timber merchant

" President Lincoln replaced Butler with Nathaniel Banks in 1862.

Plessy was born on St. Patrick's Day in 1862, when federal occupation troops under General Benjamin Franklin Butler had liberated African Americans in New Orleans.

The army saw little action the rest of 1862 and Butler was replaced by Major General Nathaniel P. Banks on December 17.

* Major General Benjamin F. Butler ( February 23 – December 15, 1862 )

As the Creole elite feared, however, this changed during and in the wake of the Civil War ; in 1862 French instruction in schools was abolished by Gen. Butler, and teaching of the language was forbidden in schools in 1868.