Birthdays
William Nelson Rector Beall
Turns 37 on this date
Jesse Spinner Burks
Turns 39 on this date
Eugene Asa Carr
Turns 32 on this date
Marvin Emory Clark
Turns 29 on this date
George Bibb Crittenden
Turns 50 on this date
Neal S. Dow
Turns 58 on this date
John Echols
Turns 39 on this date
Thomas Dawes Eliot
Turns 54 on this date
Samuel Galloway
Turns 51 on this date
Events
| Lawmaking/Litigating | In Richmond, Virginia, the First Confederate Congress is meeting in its first session |
02/18/1862 to 04/21/1862 |
| US/the World | In Vietnam, French forces under Rear Admiral Louis-Adolph Bonard besiege and capture My Tho |
03/20/1862 to 03/23/1862 |
| Battles/Soldiers | The new steam sloop Juniata is launched at the Philadelphia Naval Yard | 03/20/1862 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The second session of the 37th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC |
12/03/1861 to 07/16/1862 |