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Type	Date Span	Title
Crime/Disasters	Sat, March 15, 1862	In Portland, Maine, a fire completely destroys the Union Church
US/the World	Sat, March 15, 1862	Congress votes to join with Britain and France on a commission to preserve Atlantic fishing stocks
Crime/Disasters	Sun, March 16, 1862 - Mon, March 17, 1862	Days before its dedication, a new Presbyterian church in Binghampton, New York burns to the ground
Battles/Soldiers	Mon, March 17, 1862 - Tue, March 18, 1862	Under cover of darkness, the Confederate commerce raider Nashville escapes Beaufort, North Carolina
Battles/Soldiers	Tue, March 18, 1862	In Virginia, Confederate forces abandon Acqui Creek Landing, firing the wharves as they leave
US/the World	Tue, March 18, 1862	British ship Emily St. Pierre seized off the South Carolina coast and sent as a prize to Philadelphia
Lawmaking/Litigating	Tue, March 18, 1862	The governors of Pennsylvania and New Jersey also react to the emergence of naval ironclad warfare
Battles/Soldiers	Wed, March 19, 1862	The U.S.S. Rhode Island arrives in Philadelphia with Confederate privateer prisoners
US/the World	Thu, March 20, 1862 - Sun, March 23, 1862	In Vietnam, French forces under Rear Admiral Louis-Adolph Bonard besiege and capture My Tho
Battles/Soldiers	Thu, March 20, 1862	The new steam sloop Juniata is launched at the Philadelphia Naval Yard
US/the World	Fri, March 21, 1862	British captain and two of his men recapture the Emily St. Pierre from its U.S. Navy prize crew
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, March 21, 1862 - Sat, March 22, 1862	In western Virginia, Stonewall Jackson's infantry marches at a grueling pace towards Winchester
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, March 21, 1862	President Lincoln forms two new Army Departments in the South
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, March 21, 1862	Commodore Du Pont moves on Saint Augustine, Florida and finds U.S. Marines already there
US/the World	Sat, March 22, 1862	The Kingdom of Italy signs a treaty guaranteeing the independence of its tiny neighbor, San Marino
Battles/Soldiers	Sun, March 23, 1862	In the Shenandoah Valley, Stonewall Jackson suffers his only defeat at the first Battle of Kernstown
Campaigns/Elections	Mon, March 24, 1862	In Cincinnati, Wendell Phillips is forced from the stage as he attempts agitate for abolition and disunion
Lawmaking/Litigating	Tue, March 25, 1862	Tennessee military governor Andrew Johnson removes the entire Nashville city council
Battles/Soldiers	Wed, March 26, 1862	In New Mexico, Texas and Colorado units clash in the Glorieta Pass at Apache Canyon
Battles/Soldiers	Wed, March 26, 1862	In western Missouri, Missouri Union cavalry drive off the Missourians raiders of William C. Quantrill
Campaigns/Elections	Thu, March 27, 1862	Abolitionist lecture in Burlington, New Jersey ends in chaos and a barrage of rotten eggs
Business/Industry	Fri, March 28, 1862	New 1400 ton steam sloop for the expanding Union Navy is launched at the Boston Navy Yard
Lawmaking/Litigating	Fri, March 28, 1862	Friends of imprisoned Brigadier General Charles Stone seek aid from the Massachusetts Legislature
Personal	Fri, March 28, 1862	Aristide Briand, future wartime leader of France and Nobel Peace prize laureate is born in Nantes
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, March 28, 1862	Union forces turn back the Confederate invasion of New Mexico at Glorieta Pass
Battles/Soldiers	Sat, March 29, 1862	In Loudon County, Virginia, Pennsylvania infantry storm the streets of Middleburg and take the town
Crime/Disasters	Sat, March 29, 1862	In Kingston, Jamaica, a devastating fire destroys much of the commercial district around the docks
Crime/Disasters	Sat, March 29, 1862	Massive explosion at a Philadelphia cartridge factory kills sixteen people and levels the complex
Battles/Soldiers	Sat, March 29, 1862	In snowy Washington, imprisoned spy Rose Greenhow meets with the Commission on Political Prisoners
Science/Technology	Sat, March 29, 1862	Pennsylvania troops reportedly use the machine gun in open combat for the first time in the war