Birthdays
William Brown Carr
Turns 42 on this date
Halbert Eleazer Paine
Turns 36 on this date
John Rankin
Turns 69 on this date
Events
| Battles/Soldiers | In Calloway County, Kentucky, Confederate forces abandon Fort Heiman to concentrate at Fort Henry | 02/04/1862 |
| 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 |
| Battles/Soldiers | On the Tennessee River, Union forces deploy for an assault on Forts Henry and Donelson |
02/03/1862 to 02/05/1862 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The second session of the 37th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC |
12/03/1861 to 07/16/1862 |