Birthdays
Henry Winslow Abbett
Turns 23 on this date
Montgomery Blair
Turns 49 on this date
John Wilkes Booth
Turns 24 on this date
Joseph Mallalieu
Turns 21 on this date
Alexander Brown Norris
Turns 51 on this date
James Louis Petigru
Turns 73 on this date
Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback
Turns 25 on this date
John Sherman
Turns 39 on this date
Events
| Battles/Soldiers | Confederate forces evacuate Pensacola, Florida burning installations and stores before leaving |
05/09/1862 to 05/10/1862 |
| Crime/Disasters | Deadly daytime fire devastates residential sections of Troy, New York | 05/10/1862 |
| Crime/Disasters | Freak railroad accident hits Indiana governor's train and kills the state's Superintendent of Instruction | 05/10/1862 |
| Crime/Disasters | In New York, massive wild fires rage across Long Island for days destroying farms, homes, and animals |
05/09/1862 to 05/12/1862 |
| Business/Industry | In Philadelphia, War of 1812 hero Charles Stewart does the honors at launch of new Union ironclad | 05/10/1862 |
| Battles/Soldiers | In Virginia, a Union amphibious operation forces the surrender of Norfolk and its naval installations | 05/10/1862 |
| Battles/Soldiers | Sharp half-hour naval engagement on the Mississippi River below Fort Pillow in Tennessee | 05/10/1862 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The second session of the 37th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC |
12/03/1861 to 07/16/1862 |