* 1862 – Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U. S. Navy hospital ship.

* 1862 – Royal Columbian Hospital ( RCH ) opens as the first hospital in the Canadian province of British Columbia

Formerly William Lansing Taylor, James changed his name upon his enlistment in 1862 as a hospital steward in the 7th Kansas Cavalry.

Smithsburg acted as a hospital town during the American Civil War in 1862, treating wounded soldiers from nearby battles at South Mountain and Antietam.

A hospital opened in Stockton in 1862 and a public library opened in 1877.

Furthermore, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker served as assistant surgeon with General Burnside's Union forces in 1862 and with an Ohio regiment in East Tennessee the following year ; imprisoned in Richmond as a spy, she was eventually released and returned to serve as a hospital surgeon at a women ’ s prisoner-of-war hospital in Louisville, Kentucky.

Vernor joined the 4th Michigan Cavalry on August 14, 1862 as a hospital steward, was promoted to second lieutenant on September 20, 1864, and was discharged on July 1, 1865.

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On January 8, 1862, Lubbock, then sick in bed in a Bowling Green hospital with typhoid fever, was promoted to colonel and advanced to command of the regiment.

The Confederate government started to use the facility as a hospital and prison in 1861, reserving it for Union officers in 1862 because of the influx of prisoners.

From 1862 to 1865, during the American Civil War, he was a surgeon in the Union army, acting during 1864-1865 as surgeon-in-charge of the U. S. Army general hospital at Quincy, Illinois.

His paternal grandfather, Benjamin Parks Middleton ( 1825 – 1891 ) served as a private in Company G, 6th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry for the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, and his maternal grandfather, Riden M. Thompson, was also a Confederate soldier who died 27 May 1862 at the hospital in Hazlehurst, Mississippi.

He applied for admission to the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum in February 1862 in vain, a few months later he was picked up exhausted in a street and taken to the Melbourne hospital, where he died on 5 July 1862 of hepatitis and bronchitis and was buried in a pauper's grave.

By late 1862, De Camp was the Army ’ s largest general hospital, housing more than 2, 100 patients.

In 1862, Claiborne was ordered to establish a hospital in Petersburg for treatment of wounded soldiers and was made surgeon in charge in local Confederate forces.

The Gas Company, which was formed in 1862, was the work of Henry Courtis, a man who had supplied gas to Castlemaine, Ballarat and other towns ; nothing now remains of the gas works except the tiny cottage of the manager off Raglan Street towards the hospital.

These men worked together amicably for a common cause until the hospital was opened in May 1862.

He was surgeon to the hospital from 1829 to 1861, and in 1862 was made serjeant-surgeon to Queen Victoria.

In 1862 during the American Civil War, much of the land around Point Lookout was transformed into a bustling port, temporary city of civilians and military personnel and numerous buildings, a large army hospital, an army garrison at Fort Lincoln, and a Union prisoner of war camp to hold Confederate captives.

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

In April 1862, having served only a few months as governor, Harvey organized an expedition to bring medical supplies to Wisconsin troops, wounded in the Battle of Shiloh, who were being cared for in hospital boats on the Mississippi and Tennessee Rivers.

From 1850 onwards he became well known as a critic and essay-writer, and in 1860 he began working on his magnum opus, his History of Music, which was published at intervals from 1862 in five volumes, the last two ( 1878, 1882 ) being edited and completed by Otto Kade and Wilhelm Langhans.

Bazille began studying medicine in 1859, and moved to Paris in 1862 to continue his studies.

In 1862, the Union Army of the Potomac began its Peninsula Campaign against Richmond, Virginia, and Stuart's cavalry brigade assisted Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army as it withdrew up the Virginia Peninsula in the face of superior numbers.

In 1862 Gray stated that he " began to collect postage stamps shortly after the system was established and before it had become a rage ".

The work shown by the firm at the 1862 International Exhibition attracted much notice, and from 1866 began to make a profit.

The first newspaper in present-day Idaho, the Lewiston Teller began publication in the city of Lewiston, Washington Territory in 1862, and was joined by the present ( and only ) newspaper, the Lewiston Morning Tribune in September 1892.

Having completed the scenario, Wagner began writing the libretto in 1862, and followed this by composing the overture.

When Sarah was young her mother sent her to Grandchamp, an Augustine convent school near Versailles In 1860 she began attending The Conservatoire de Musique at Déclemation in Paris and eventually became a student at the Comédie Française where she would have her acting debut ( August 11, 1862 ) in the title role of Racine's Iphigénie to lackluster reviews.

They began a relationship that lasted until her death in 1862.

Two years later, however, Berlioz instead began work on Béatrice et Bénédict, which Bénazet accepted ; it was completed on 25 February 1862.

" On August 17, 1862 the Dakota War began when a few Santee men murdered a white farmer and most of his family.

The Mission's chapel functioned as a parish church for the City of San Gabriel from 1862 until 1908, when the Claretian Missionary Fathers came to San Gabriel and began the job of rebuilding and restoring the Mission.

" Jewett went out of business, and it was not until Ticknor and Fields put the work back in print in November 1862 that demand began again to increase.

Prospectors and miners moved through the county in 1862 in route to the gold rush in the Boise Basin around Idaho City, and by the next year irrigation began along the Payette River.

In the Battle of Shiloh, which began April 6, 1862, the Confederates launched a surprise attack against Grant's Army of the Tennessee and nearly defeated it.

Thus began the French intervention in Mexico in 1862.

After the Homestead Act was passed in 1862, settlers began homesteading the land around Lake Concord and the Triplet Chain of Lakes.

where his work began in 1862.

The township began to boom in 1862 with the arrival of the railroad.

Construction of Clifford village began around 1862 at an existing crossroads.

Most of the original settlers were driven out in 1862 due to the Dakota War, but settlers began returning after the Civil War.

The Dakota became angered and the Dakota War of 1862 began in Cottonwood County.

Community growth began in 1862 with the establishment of a spur rail line to Ogdensburg.

The first was the Battle of Beaver Dam Creek, which began on June 26, 1862.

He began taking lessons in composition from Mily Balakirev in 1862.