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 )

However, whilst the New South Wales Police Force was established in 1862, it was made up from a large number of policing and military units operating within the then Colony of New South Wales and traces its links back to the Royal Marines.

* Copley Medal of the Royal Society ( 1862 )

On 24 September 1861, Crown Princess Victoria introduced her brother Albert Edward to Alexandra at Speyer, but it was not until almost a year later on 9 September 1862 ( after his affair with Nellie Clifden and the death of his father ) that Albert Edward proposed to Alexandra at the Royal Castle of Laeken, the home of his great-uncle, King Leopold I of Belgium.

* John Sheridan ( Royal Navy officer ) ( c. 1770 – 1862 ), naval officer

He was knighted in 1861 and in 1862 he was elected Vice-President of the Royal Geographical Society.

During the Civil War the Battle of Front Royal took place in the county on May 23, 1862.

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

The " Elephant Man ", Joseph Carey Merrick ( 1862 – 1890 ) became well known in Whitechapel — he was exhibited in a shop on the Whitechapel Road before being helped by Dr Frederick Treves ( 1853 – 1923 ) at the Royal London Hospital, opposite the actual shop.

The Royal Agricultural Hall was built in 1862 on the Liverpool Road site of William Dixon's Cattle Layers.

In June 1862 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1871 delivered their Bakerian Lecture.

Fleming served in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada ( later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada ) and was appointed to the rank of Captain on January 1, 1862.

He was a chorister at York Minster from the age of seven, was educated at the Royal Academy of Music under Cipriani Potter and Charles Lucas, and was appointed in 1862 organist of St. Andrew's, Wells Street, London, where he raised the services to a high degree of excellence.

He received a Royal Medal in 1862 " for the Armagh catalogue of 5345 stars, deduced from observations made at the Armagh Observatory, from the years 1820 up to 1854 ; for his papers on the construction of astronomical instruments in the memoirs of the Astronomical Society, and his paper on electromagnets in the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy.

Edinburgh, Midlothian, 23 December 1814-Murrayfield, Midlothian, 13 January 1862 ), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, married at St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, Midlothian, on 12 March 1844 to Mary Ann Balfour ( 2 November 1816-?

Canada ( from 1862 ) has its own Black Watch, being raised as the 5th Battalion of the Canadian Militia, being renamed by 1914 as the 5th Regiment ( Royal Highlanders of Canada ).

In 1862, he was also elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

* USS Port Royal ( 1862 ) was a sidewheel steamer gunboat commissioned in 1862, active in the Civil War, and decommissioned 1866

In 1862, she joined her sister Kate in J. H. Chute's stock company at the Theatre Royal, Bristol, where she played a wide variety of parts, including burlesque roles requiring singing and dancing, as well as roles in Much Ado about Nothing, Othello and The Merchant of Venice.

An agricultural institute was founded in Ultuna in 1848 and in Alnarp in 1862, under the supervision of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture, founded in 1813.

The first Royal Horticultural Society Great Spring Show was held in 1862, at the RHS garden in Kensington.

It was held from 1 May to 1 November 1862, beside the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society, South Kensington, London, England, on a site that now houses museums including the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum ( London ).

He then retired to Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight, and took an active interest in the affairs of the Royal Astronomical Society, of which he became honorary secretary in 1862 and president in 1866.

In 1862 he was appointed to the Chair in Zoology at St Mary's Hospital medical school.

Ticknor had succeeded his father as a member of the Primary School Board in 1822, and held this position until 1825 ; he was a trustee of the Boston Athenaeum in 1823-1832, and was vice-president in 1833 ; and he was a director ( 1827 – 1835 ) and vice-president ( 1841 – 1862 ) of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, and a trustee of the Massachusetts General Hospital ( 1826 – 1830 ) and of the Boston Provident Institution for Savings ( 1838 – 1850 ), the bank that his father had helped to found.

From the twelfth century to 1862 St. Thomas ' Hospital lay to the east of Borough High Street with Guy's Hospital adjacent.

In 1862 he was appointed Assistant Physician, later ( 1869 ) full Physician at the National Hospital for Paralysis and Epilepsy located in Queen Square, London ( now the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery ) as well as Physician ( 1874 ) at the London Hospital.

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In 1862, after spending a month in Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, Scofield successfully petitioned for a discharge.

In 1846, 11 of the Georgetown Visitation sisters relocated to Frederick, Maryland to carry on a school began by the Sisters of Charity in 1824, which from that date became the Visitation Academy of Frederick-which is still operating today and had an important part in Civil War history when it was occupied in September 1862 ( until January 1863 ) by Union Troops and became General Hospital # 5 following the Battles of South Mountain and Antietam.

It was designed in 1862 by the Edinburgh architects John Dick Peddie and Charles Kinnear, opening in 1866 as the Morgan Hospital, a charitable institution providing accommodation and education for " sons of tradesmen and persons of the working class generally whose parents stand in the need of assistance ".

In 1858 he accepted a readership at Christ Church, Newgate Street, and he was assistant-chaplain to St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, from 1856 until 1862.

Military use of these islands dates back to 1862, when Davids ' Island was leased by the U. S. Government and De Camp General Hospital was established to serve thousands of wounded individuals from the battlefields of the American Civil War.

He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1850 ( and a Fellow in 1862 ), and rapidly gained reputation as a skilful operator and a scientific inquirer.

Sometime in November, 1862, he was hospitalized for " sickness " at General Hospital No. 11 in Richmond, Virginia.

Dixmont State Hospital ( 1862 ) prior to its demolition in 2005.

* Garlands Hospital, Carlisle ( originally the Cumberland and Westmorland Lunatic Asylum, 1862 )

Returning to London in 1862, he worked at the London Hospital and earned his degree in medicine.

He was wounded in the Second Battle of Bull Run on August 30, 1862 and was shipped to a Georgetown Hospital in Washington DC.

* 1862: Austin Flint murmur is named for Austin Flint, prominent Bellevue Hospital cardiologist.

Satterlee Hospital, one of the largest Union Army hospitals of the Civil War, operated from 1862 to 1865 ; part of its grounds are now the northern section of Clark Park.

In 1862, the State Hospital was converted to a military hospital to care for Union soldiers during the American Civil War.