* Promoted, Colonel February 1862, Battle of Fort Donelson.

In July 1862, Lincoln installed Colonel John S. Phelps as Military Governor of Arkansas, though he resigned soon after due to poor health.

* John Scott – Matilda ( 1827 ), The Colonel ( 1828 ), Rowton ( 1829 ), Margrave ( 1832 ), Touchstone ( 1834 ), Don John ( 1838 ), Charles the Twelfth ( 1839 ), Launcelot ( 1840 ), Satirist ( 1841 ), The Baron ( 1845 ), Newminster ( 1851 ), West Australian ( 1853 ), Warlock ( 1856 ), Imperieuse ( 1857 ), Gamester ( 1859 ), The Marquis ( 1862 )

Colonel s Albert V. Colburn, Delos B. Sackett and General John Sedgwick in Harrison's Landing, Virginia during the Peninsula Campaign, 1862.

On August 12, 1862 the 24th Missouri Infantry ( Union ) under the command of Colonel Boyd surprised six rebel soldiers near Van Buren.

In September 1862 Rebel forces under the command of Colonel David C. Boone, who had been in Southeast Missouri recruiting troops for the Confederacy, was driven from Reynolds County into Carter County by elements of the 12th Cavalry MSM.

19th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry was organized at Camp Harwood in Harrodsburg, Kentucky and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on January 2, 1862 under the command of Colonel William J. Landram.

Cross County is Arkansas's 53rd county, formed on 15 November 1862 and named for Confederate Colonel David C. Cross, a political leader in the area.

The city drew its name from nearby Fort Larned, which was established in 1859 and named for Colonel Benjamin F. Larned, U. S. Army Paymaster, July 1854 to his death, September 6, 1862.

19th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry was organized at Camp Harwood in Harrodsburg, Kentucky and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on January 2, 1862 under the command of Colonel William J. Landram.

Colonel Thornton Fleming Brodhead ( 1822 – 1862 ) was one of the island's most prominent residents in these fields of endeavor.

At this site, in the fall of 1862, the Dakota tribes surrendered and released 269 captives to Colonel Henry Sibley.

In 1862, the courthouse and town of Dallas was raided by Colonel S. D.

On 14 August 1862, Mr. John C. Holley received authority to recruit a regiment in Sullivan County, which was organized at Monticello, with David P. DeWitt as Colonel, and there mustered in the service of the United States for three years October 8, 1862.

* Monument to the Edinburgh-born Confederate Colonel Robert A. Smith who died in 1862 at Munfordsville, Kentucky in the American Civil War.

On May 15, 1862, Colonel Lamar, while reviewing his regiment, fell with an attack of vertigo, which had previously disabled him, and his service as a soldier was ended.

In the Apache Wars, Colonel Christopher " Kit " Carson forced the Mescalero Apache onto a reservation in 1862.

* Lieutenant Colonel ( second in command ), 20th Maine ( August 8, 1862 )

In 1862, Texas Volunteers had taken control of large portions of New Mexico Territory ( which included present-day Arizona ) for the Confederacy, and Colonel Carleton was ordered to retake control of the territory.

General Sedgwick ( seated right ) with Colonel ( United States ) | Colonel s Albert V. Colburn and Delos Bennett Sackett | Delos B. Sackett in Harrison's Landing, Virginia, during the Peninsula Campaign, 1862.

On September 8, 1862 Bristow was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel over the 8th Kentucky Cavalry.

Colonel Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale ( 9 November 1824 – 29 December 1878 ), known before 1862 as Lord Arthur Hay and between 1862 and 1876 as Viscount Walden, was a Scottish soldier and ornithologist.

After being taken prisoner he was recruited at Camp Douglas, Illinois by its commander, Col. James A. Mulligan, as a " Galvanized Yankee " and joined the Union Army on 4 June 1862, but was discharged 18 days later due to severe illness.

On February 26, 1862, General Halleck ordered Colonel Tucker to report to Springfield, Illinois and a Union Army officer from Illinois, Colonel James A. Mulligan, took command of the camp until June 14, 1862.

Colonel Mulligan finally permitted only physicians and ministers to visit the prisoners after April 12, 1862.

In July 1862, Tucker was ordered to Charleston, South Carolina, where he took command of the ironclad CSS Chicora.

On February 18, 1862, Colonel Arno Voss took brief temporary command of the camp until Colonel Tucker returned from Springfield, Illinois several days later.

Even though he remained in the Illinois militia and was not taken into federal service, Colonel Tucker returned to command the camp on June 19, 1862.

To deal with local civilian sympathizers who might be aiding escapes, Colonel Tucker declared martial law on July 12, 1862.

When twenty – five prisoners escaped on July 23, 1862, Tucker arrested several citizens whom he believed aided the escapees.

In the summer of 1862, Henry Whitney Bellows, president of the U. S. Sanitary Commission, wrote the following to Colonel Hoffman after visiting the camp: " Sir, the amount of standing water, unpoliced grounds, of foul sinks, of unventilated and crowded barracks, of general disorder, of soil reeking miasmatic accretions, of rotten bones and emptying of camp kettles, is enough to drive a sanitarian to despair.

On June 19, 1862, endorsed by Lincoln, Congress passed an act banning slavery on all federal territory.

A New Yorker named John Kennedy wrote to the U. S. Army in 1862, offering to furnish discs for all officers and men in the Federal Army, enclosing a design for the disc.

Abbot's studies were chiefly in Oriental languages and textual criticism of the New Testament, though his work as a bibliographer showed such results as the exhaustive list of writings ( 5300 in all ) on the doctrine of the future life, appended to W. R. Alger's History of the Doctrine of a Future Life, as it has prevailed in all Nations and Ages ( 1862 ), and published separately in 1864.

Maxwell's equations are named after the Scottish physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell, since in an early form they are all found in a four-part paper, " On Physical Lines of Force ", which he published between 1861 and 1862.

The passing of the Police Regulation Act of 1862 essentially tightly regulated and centralised all of the police forces operating throughout the Colony of New South Wales.

Virginian general Robert E. Lee took command of the Army of Northern Virginia in 1862, and led invasions into Union territory, ultimately becoming commander of all Confederate forces.

In 1862, France obtained concessions from Emperor Tự Đức, ceding three treaty ports in Annam and Tonkin, and all of Cochinchina, the latter being formally declared a French territory in 1864.

On May 26, 1862, Union Maj. Gen. David Hunter emancipated slaves in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida stated all " persons ... heretofore held as slaves ... forever free.

On April 16, 1862 Lincoln signed a bill into law outlawing slavery in Washington D. C. and freeing the estimated 3, 500 slaves in the city and on June 19, 1862 he signed legislation outlawing slavery in all U. S. territories.

Eventually the federal government granted 1. 6 million homesteads and distributed of federal land for private ownership between 1862 and 1934, a total of 10 % of all lands in the United States.

The resulting management of this scrip by the university yielded one third of the total grant revenues generated by all the states, even though New York received only one-tenth of the 1862 land grant.

In 1862 Congress passed a law that allowed to President, by proclamation, to cancel all treaties with Indian Nations siding with the Confederacy ( 25 USC 72 ).."

When Union force occupied Baton Rouge in May 1862, all rolling stock was sent to the extreme western end of the railroad for safety where it remained for the duration of the war.

In April 1862, Governor Thomas Overton Moore, reconciled to the fall of New Orleans, ordered the destruction of all cotton in those areas in danger of occupation by Union forces.

Built in 1862, all that remains of Pingle Farm is

* 1862, Reindeer, schooner, 104 tons, Captain Morris, all hands ( about 8 ) lost.

On March 11, 1862, Lincoln removed McClellan as general-in-chief, leaving him in command of only the Army of the Potomac, ostensibly so that McClellan would be free to devote all his attention to the move on Richmond.

During the American Civil War, the Union General Benjamin McCulloch torched all non-essential buildings in Fayetteville in 1862, to reduce resources for Confederates.

In 1862 during the American Civil War, Union soldiers came down unopposed on the Grand River to Salina and set all slaves free.

Almost all of the town was burned by Union troops in 1862.

Then in April 1862 another crew marked all the section corners in the township, walking through the woods and swamps, measuring with chain and compass.

In early 1862, the same crew marked all the section corners in the township, walking through the woods and swamps, measuring with chain and compass.

This cell is all that remains of a much older building which was largely destroyed to make way for the County Buildings ( built in 1862 ).