President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

Republican editor Horace Greeley of the highly influential New York Tribune fell for the ploy, and Lincoln refuted it directly in a shrewd letter of August 22, 1862.

Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. ( April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948 ) was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York.

His son, Karl Wilhelm Böttiger ( August 15, 1790-November 26, 1862 ; not to be confused with the Swedish writer Carl Wilhelm Böttiger ), was a historian and biographer of his father.

Although the First Battle of Independence in August 1862 resulted in a Confederate victory, the Southerners were unable to follow up their win in any significant fashion, as the City of Kansas was occupied by Union troops and proved too heavily fortified for them to assault.

* Wehler, Hans-Ulrich " Bismarck's Imperialism 1862 – 1890 " Past and Present, No. 48, August 1970. pages 119 – 155 online edition

* August 27 – Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the United States ( b. 1862 )

* August 11 – Edith Wharton, American writer ( b. 1862 )

* August 19 – Georges Darien, French writer ( born 1862 )

* August 17 – Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Lakota Sioux attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.

* August 19 – Dakota War of 1862: 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.

Lady Audley's Secret was partially serialized in Robin Goodfellow magazine July – September 1861, then entirely serialized in Sixpenny Magazine January – December 1862 and once again serialized in London Journal March – August 1863.

Finally, on August 3, 1862, she obtained permission to travel to the front lines, eventually reaching some of the grimmest battlefields of the war and serving during the Siege of Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia.

On August 22, 1862 he was mustered out of the volunteer service but returned to the field as major in the 19th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

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.

In the Northern Virginia Campaign of August 1862, this stereotype did not hold true.

The Second Battle of Bull Run or Second Manassas was fought August 28 – 30, 1862, as part of the American Civil War.

On August 28, 1862, Jackson attacked a Union column just east of Gainesville, at Brawner's Farm, resulting in a stalemate.

President Lincoln signed two Confiscation Acts into law, the first on August 6, 1861, and the second on July 17, 1862, safeguarding fugitive slaves from the Confederacy that came over into Union lines and giving them indirect emancipation if their masters continued insurrection against the United States.

In August 1862, President Lincoln met with African American leaders and urged them to colonize some place in Central America.

Battles of New Ulm | Siege of New Ulm, August 19, 1862.

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

It was established on August 17, 1862, and abolished on May 11, 1864 ( the day Stuart was mortally wounded ), with cavalry units being assigned to the headquarters of the Army.

* Ellen Pontifex ( born ca. 1831 ; housemaid of Theobald and Christina ; pregnant by John the coachman & married him 15 August 1851 ; separated ; married bigamously to Ernest late 1850s ; annulled 1862 ).

In August 1961 he quietly died in his sleep, aged 68.

Six months after his wedding, George contracted pleurisy and died, aged 67, on 12 August 1848 at Tapton House in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

Wells died of unspecified causes on 13 August 1946 at his home at 13 Hanover Terrace, Regent's Park, London, aged 79.

* Article dated 31 August 2006 from The Independent: " Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz dies aged 94 "

Magritte died of pancreatic cancer on 15 August 1967 in his own bed, aged 68, and was interred in Schaerbeek Cemetery, Evere, Brussels.

Lead singer, Strachan died on 29 August 2001, aged 49, in a helicopter crash while solo piloting.

He died on August 31, 1945, aged 53.

* August 31 – Henry VI becomes King of England aged nine months.

Rudolf Brazda, believed to be the last surviving person who was sent to a Nazi concentration camp because of his homosexuality, died in France in August 2011, aged 98.

A younger sister, Mary Ann Turner, was born in September 1778 but died aged four in August 1783.

On August 29, 2000, Rose Hobart died at the actors ' home in Woodland Hills, California, aged 94, from natural causes.

In the summer of 430 the Vandals put the city of Hippo under siege as the aged bishop lay on his death bed ; he died 28 August 430.

Bleek died in Mowbray on 17 August 1875, aged 48, and was buried in Wynberg Anglican cemetery in Cape Town along with his two infant children, who had died before him.

Her father, Walter Augustus de Havilland ( 31 August 1872 – 23 May 1968 ; aged 95 ), was a patent attorney with a practice in Japan, and her mother, Lilian Augusta ( née Ruse ; 11 June 1886 – 20 February 1975 ; aged 88 ) was a stage actress who had left her career after going to Tokyo with her husband – she would return to work after her daughters had already won fame in the 40s, with the stage name of Lillian Fontaine.

The Twickenham Green area witnessed a high profile murder on 19 August 2004, when French woman Amelie Delagrange ( aged 22 ) died in hospital after being found with a serious head injury ( caused by battery ) in the area.

He died of a sudden cardiac arrest at Cromwell Hospital, London, on Saturday, August 16, 1997, aged 48.

Diana died in Paris in August 2003, aged 93, reportedly due to complications related to a stroke she had suffered a week earlier, but reports later surfaced that she had been one of the many elderly fatalities of the heat wave of 2003 in mostly non-air-conditioned Paris.

The phrase Generation Y first appeared in an August 1993 Ad Age editorial to describe teenagers of the day, which they defined as different from Generation X, and then aged 12 or younger ( born after 1981 ), as well as the teenagers of the upcoming ten years.

1192 – August 1214, aged around 22 ), unmarried and without issue

Bygraves died on 31 August 2012, aged 89, at his daughter's home in Hope Island, Queensland, Australia, after

On learning the outcome of his appeal, he refused to eat, contracted pneumonia, deteriorated rapidly and died of starvation a week later on 22 August 2012, aged 58.

By his wife Elizabeth, daughter of George Winiffe of Brettenham, Suffolk ( she died 27 August 1652, aged 69 ), Hall had six sons and two daughters.

Layton died on August 22, 2011, aged 61, after suffering from an undisclosed type of cancer.