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 )

These included Modest Mussorgsky in 1858 ; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in November 1861 and Alexander Borodin in November or December 1862.

Modest Mussorgsky joined them in 1857, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1861, and Alexander Borodin in 1862.

* The composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ( 1844 – 1908 ) was an officer in the Russian Navy and was posted to Gravesend in 1862, where he wrote part of his first symphony, said to be the first such style of composition attempted by a Russian composer.

It was co-founded in 1866 as the Moscow Imperial Conservatory by Nikolai Rubinstein ( brother of the famous Russian pianist and composer Anton Rubinstein, who founded the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1862 ) and Prince Nikolai Petrovitch Troubetzkoy.

Brothers Rubinstein: Nikolai & Anton Rubinstein | Anton, ( 1862 )

Sauer was born in Hamburg, Germany on October 8, 1862 and studied with Nikolai Rubinstein at the Moscow Conservatory between 1879 and 1881.

There, with the active aid of the Russian government, he at length got access to the remainder of the precious Sinaitic codex, and persuaded the monks to present it to Tsar Alexander II of Russia, at whose cost it was published in 1862 ( in four folio volumes ).

* 1862 – The Russian State Library is founded.

* 1862 – Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist ( d. 1916 )

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.

After 1862 the spiked helmet ceased to be generally worn by the Russian Army, although it was retained until 1914 by the Cuirassier regiments of the Imperial Guard and the Gendarmerie.

* 1911 – Pyotr Stolypin, Russian politician ( b. 1862 )

" Grigor ' ev in Orenburg, 1851 – 1862: Russian Orientalism in the Service of Empire?

* Sergei Nilus ( 1862 – 1929 ), Russian religious writer and self-described mystic, one of the first publishers of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

While briefly imprisoned in Peter and Paul Fortress during the abortive 1905 Russian Revolution, Gorky wrote the play Children of the Sun, nominally set during an 1862 cholera epidemic, but universally understood to relate to present-day events.

The first dedicated Abkhaz alphabet was created in 1862 by the Russian general Peter von Uslar.

To counteract these criticisms and to aid in the creation of a distinctly " Russian " school of music, Balakirev and Gavriil Lomakin, a local choirmaster, founded the Free School of Music in 1862.

* Boris Lyapunov ( 1862 – 1943 ), Russian expert in Slavic studies

In 1862 a railway connecting the Russian Empire and Imperial Germany was built, making Kaunas a significant railway hub with one of the first railway tunnels in the Empire, completed in 1861.

Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky ( transcribed also Ostrohradskyy, Ostrogradskii, Ostrogradskiĭ ) (,, September 24, 1801 – January 1, 1862 ) was a Russian / Ukrainian mathematician, mechanician and physicist.

His father was a noted Georgian composer Meliton Balanchivadze ( 1862 – 1937 ), one of the initiators of the Georgian Opera, while his mother was a Russian ballet aficionado.

* Turgenev, Ivan, Fathers and Sons, 1862, paints the portrait of Russian nihilists.

The Russian province of Wenden issued stamps for a local post from 1862 to 1901, while Nicaragua issued stamps for Zelaya only, due to its use of a different currency.

Russian steam corvette Russian corvette Vityaz ( 1862 ) | Vityaz

Russian Baptist immigrants, mostly from the southern Ukraine, came to Dobrogea around 1862 and founded a church in Cataloi in 1869.

In 1862 he was appointed head of Poland's Civil Administration within the Russian Empire under Tsar Alexander II.

who were displaced in the course of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in the 19th century, especially after the Russian – Circassian War of 1862.