Birthdays
Austin Blair
Turns 44 on this date
John Hepburn Campbell
Turns 42 on this date
Richard Stoddert Ewell
Turns 45 on this date
Amos Preston Gilbert
Turns 21 on this date
John King Jackson
Turns 34 on this date
Adam Rankin Johnson
Turns 28 on this date
Martin Kalbfleisch
Turns 58 on this date
John Alexander Logan
Turns 36 on this date
Events
| Education/Culture | At London's Covent Garden Theater, Sir Julius Benedict's light opera "The Lily of Killarney" opens | 02/08/1862 |
| Battles/Soldiers | In North Carolina, a combined federal army and navy operation captures Roanoke Island |
02/07/1862 to 02/08/1862 |
| 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 |
| Battles/Soldiers | With the opening of the Tennessee River, U.S. naval units raid deep into Tennessee and Alabama |
02/06/1862 to 02/10/1862 |
Documents
| Newspaper | New York National Anti-Slavery Standard, "Mr. Conway’s Lecture," February 8, 1862 | 02/08/1862 |