The war also expanded with naval operations in 1862 when the CSS Virginia, formerly the USS Merrimack, damaged or destroyed three Union vessels in Norfolk, Virginia, before being engaged and damaged by the USS Monitor.

The Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, also signed in 1862, provided government grants for agricultural colleges in each state.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas.

Meanwhile, also in 1859, he had been made professor ordinarius of theology and of Biblical paleography, this latter professorship being specially created for him ; and another book of travel, Aus dem heiligen Lande, appeared in 1862.

It later allied with Bambara Empire against Umar Tall's Toucouleur Empire and was also defeated by it in 1862.

Moore also contributed to the renovation of the house used as headquarters during 1861 – 1862 by Major General Thomas J.

A similar reform movement for Danish, which at this time was the written language also in Norway, was led by Rasmus Rask ( 1787 – 1832 ) and his follower Niels Matthias Petersen ( 1791 – 1862 ).

Lamy was awarded a medal at the International Exhibition in London 1862: For the discovery of a new and abundant source of thallium and after heavy protest Crookes also received a medal: thallium, for the discovery of the new element.

The family also provided two Holy Roman Emperors ( 1328 / 1742 ), one King of the Romans ( 1400 ), two Anti-Kings of Bohemia ( 1619 / 1742 ), one King of Hungary ( 1305 ), one King of Denmark and Norway ( 1440 ) and a King of Greece ( 1832 – 1862 ).

His wife, the daughter of Thomas Moore of Philadelphia, was also painted in 1892 by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury ( 1862 – 1947 ).

Pavia railway station, opened in 1862, forms part of the Milan – Pavia – Genoa railway, and is also a terminus of four secondary railways, linking Pavia with Alessandria, Cremona, Vercelli and Piacenza.

David Livingstone also lived in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire from 1862 for a short time.

He was also inspired by the art of the Vienna Secession, and by the Austrian painters Egon Schiele ( 1890 – 1918 ) and Gustav Klimt ( 1862 – 1918 ).

*, also sometimes referred to as the Kanagawa Incident, a samurai attack on foreign nationals in Japan in 1862 which resulted in the bombardment of Kagoshima in 1863

There is also a disputed recording of ( on 14 January 1862 ).

Boito also provided the text to Verdi's cantata Inno delle Nazioni ( 24 May 1862, Her Majesty's Theatre, London ).

The Battle of Antietam () also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil.

Goliad County is also the birthplace of General Ignacio Zaragoza, who led the Mexican army against the invading forces of Napoleon III in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862 (" Cinco de Mayo ").

Hardin County was the site of the 1862 Battle of Shiloh ( also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing ) during the Civil War.

Barnes was also home to Ebenezer Cobb Morley, who in 1862 was a founding member of the Football Association.

Immigrations were interrupted during the period of the U. S. Civil War, but were resumed thereafter when free lands also were obtainable under the Homestead Law of 1862.

On the very northern edge of the site is situated the Secretariat Wing, also built in 1862 this houses the offices and board room etc.

The town was also used to keep wounded soldiers after the Battle of Antietam in September 1862.

Until 1862, the town of Seekonk also included what is now the City of East Providence, Rhode Island.

* Brinton is an unincorporated community near the center of the township at It was settled in 1862 and first known as " Letson " after storekeeper Samuel A. Letson, who was also the first postmaster when the post office was established on April 20, 1886.

On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.

Then, on the morning of 22 March 1862, between eight and nine o ’ clock Greenwich Time, another amateur astronomer, a Mr Lummis of Manchester, England, saw a transit.

An exceptionally wet winter in 1862 saw major flooding throughout the area-the effect of which was exacerbated by the extent of the reclaimed lands.

The 21st, arriving in Virginia, saw its first major combat in late 1862 during the battle of Fredericksburg, endured heavy casualties at Drury ‘ s Bluff in 1863, and participated in Grant ‘ s drive on Richmond in mid-to late 1864.

The subdivision reform of 1952 saw the amalgamation of " old " Ovanåker with Voxna ( both formed by the first local government acts of 1862 ).

Nevertheless Meyerbeer's last years saw the composition of a good deal of non-operatic music, including a Coronation March for William I of Prussia, ( 1861 ), an overture for the 1862 International Exhibition in London, and incidental music ( now lost ) to Henri Blaze de Bury's play La jeunesse de Goethe ( 1860 ).

* The first was one of nine ships of the line authorized by Congress in 1816, but it was not launched until 1848, and only ever saw service as a receiving ship, from 1862 to 1901.

By 1866, the Waldeck contingent was styled Fürstlisches Waldecksches Füselier-Bataillon, and in the Austro-Prussian War of that year Waldeck ( already in a military convention with Prussia from 1862 ) allied with the Prussians ; however the Battalion saw no action.

A lifelong enthusiast of science and agriculture, he saw great opportunity in the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act to found a university that would teach practical subjects on an equal basis with the classics favored by more traditional institutions.

By the end of August 1862, General Kearny led his division at the disastrous Second Battle of Bull Run, which saw the Union Army routed and nearly destroyed by Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

1862 also saw the construction of major ship building facilities, including those of Chantier Scott, which launched of the first French constructed ships with metal hulls ( the company went bankrupt in 1866 ).

The 1860s saw the development of Preston's industrial capacity, with a bacon-curing factory opening in 1862, followed by a tannery in 1865.

The USS Montauk ( 1862 ), a Monitor ( warship ) which was constructed at the Continental Iron Works in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, saw considerable action throughout the war.

After Fort Sumter and the outbreak of the American Civil War, the former congressman organized and commanded Orr's Regiment of South Carolina Rifles, which saw little action before he resigned in 1862 and entered the Confederate Senate.

After recovering from his wound, Gamble was promoted to colonel on 5 December 1862, just before the Battle of Fredericksburg, but his regiment saw no action in that fight.

He served from August 1861 to August 1864 as a private in Company F. During his service the unit saw action in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and the Cherokee Nation, including the Battle of Prairie Grove in 1862.

In May 1862, he joined Company G of the 8th Texas Infantry, commanded by Col. Benjamin F. Terry and known as Terry's Texas Rangers, with whom he saw action throughout the South.

He entered the French Army, saw much service in Algeria ( 1862 ), and took part in the fighting around Metz in 1870 ( during the Franco-Prussian War ).

In command of Hunchback, he saw combat at the Battle of Roanoke Island on 7-8 February 1862, the Battle of New Bern on 14 March 1862, and in an engagement on the Blackwater River south of Franklin, Virginia, on 3 October 1862 during the joint expedition against Franklin.

A second construction period in Signal Hill's history saw the construction of the Queen's Battery Barracks, which has been completely restored to the period of 1862.

He saw service as part of Farragut's Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, and was one of the captains present at the attack and capture of New Orleans, and at Farragut's attempt to do the same at Vicksburg in 1862.