Birthdays
Talbot Wilson Chambers
Turns 43 on this date
Robert Hall Chilton
Turns 47 on this date
Clement Anselm Evans
Turns 29 on this date
Reuben Ashford Finnell
Turns 36 on this date
Quincy Adams Gillmore
Turns 37 on this date
Benjamin Peffer Lamberton
Turns 18 on this date
Granville Ross Rider
Turns 32 on this date
David Tod
Turns 57 on this date
Events
| Battles/Soldiers | At Columbus, Kentucky, Confederate forces begin the abandonment of "the Gibraltar of the West" | 02/25/1862 |
| Crime/Disasters | Huge, wind-swept fire devastates Boston's docks and kills two firefighters |
02/24/1862 to 02/25/1862 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | In Richmond, Virginia, the First Confederate Congress is meeting in its first session |
02/18/1862 to 04/21/1862 |
| Battles/Soldiers | In Tennessee, Nashville becomes the first Confederate capital to fall to the Union | 02/25/1862 |
| Crime/Disasters | Off the coast of Massachusetts, the massive winter storm drowns 128 Gloucester fishermen |
02/24/1862 to 02/25/1862 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The second session of the 37th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC |
12/03/1861 to 07/16/1862 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The War Department takes over all telegraph communication in the United States | 02/25/1862 |