Birthdays
Pardee Butler
Turns 46 on this date
David Davis
Turns 47 on this date
James Montesquieu Hopkins
Turns 51 on this date
Christian Philip Humrich
Turns 31 on this date
Julia Louisa Hardy Lovejoy
Turns 50 on this date
Abraham J. Quamony
Turns 25 on this date
Felix Huston Robertson
Turns 23 on this date
Amasa Leland Stanford
Turns 38 on this date
Events
| Battles/Soldiers | In Hampton Roads, the Virginia and the Monitor pound each other in the first ever battle between ironclads | 03/09/1862 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | In Richmond, Virginia, the First Confederate Congress is meeting in its first session |
02/18/1862 to 04/21/1862 |
| Crime/Disasters | Steamship packed with food bound for the northern English port of Liverpool sinks in a storm in mid-Atlantic | 03/09/1862 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The second session of the 37th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC |
12/03/1861 to 07/16/1862 |