Birthdays
James Basil Duke
Turns 34 on this date
Stephen Dill Lee
Turns 29 on this date
Patrick Theodore Moore
Turns 41 on this date
John Grubb Parke
Turns 35 on this date
Sir Percy Wyndham
Turns 29 on this date
Events
| Lawmaking/Litigating | In Richmond, Virginia, the First Confederate Congress is meeting in its second session |
08/18/1862 to 10/13/1862 |
| US/the World | King Wilhelm I appoints Otto von Bismarck as Minister-President of Prussia | 09/22/1862 |
Documents
| Executive record | Abraham Lincoln, Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862 | 09/22/1862 |