Birthdays
Olympia Brown
Turns 27 on this date
Henry Eaton Coleman
Turns 25 on this date
William Preston Johnston
Turns 31 on this date
Augustus Valentine Kautz
Turns 34 on this date
John Doby Kennedy
Turns 22 on this date
Joseph Brevard Kershaw
Turns 40 on this date
George Fiske Round
Turns 22 on this date
Edmund Ruffin
Turns 68 on this date
Events
| Battles/Soldiers | Confederate artillery shells Hancock, Maryland, firing across the Potomac from Morgan County, Virginia | 01/05/1862 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | In Wheeling, the elected West Virginia convention is meeting to write a constitution for the new state |
11/26/1861 to 02/18/1862 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The second session of the 37th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC |
12/03/1861 to 07/16/1862 |