Events

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Type Title
Personal Anthony Burns dies in Canada
Lawmaking/Litigating - In Richmond, Virginia, the First Confederate Congress is meeting in its second session
Battles/Soldiers - The Battle of Second Bull Run, August 28-30, 1862
Slavery/Abolition Moncure Conway becomes co-editor of "The Commonwealth, " an anti-slavery journal
Battles/Soldiers The Eighteenth Texas Volunteer Infantry arrive in Little Rock, Arkansas
Battles/Soldiers - The Battle of Harpers Ferry, September 12–15, 1862
Personal Governor Vance appoints Edward Warren as Surgeon-General of North Carolina
Battles/Soldiers Battle of Antietam
Personal Confederate Brigadier General Lewis Henry Little falls to rifle fire during the Battle of Iuka
Battles/Soldiers - In heavy fighting, Union forces repulse a Confederate advance near Iuka, Mississippi
US/the World King Wilhelm I appoints Otto von Bismarck as Minister-President of Prussia
Battles/Soldiers The Battle of Sioux Uprising, September 23, 1862
Religion/Philosophy - Rosh Hashana
Battles/Soldiers - The Battle of Corinth, October 3-4, 1862
Religion/Philosophy Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement
Battles/Soldiers The Battle of Perryville, October 8, 1862
Battles/Soldiers In Atlanta, the captured Union raiders from the failed attack on the Georgia rail system stage a mass escape
Lawmaking/Litigating The third session of the 37th Congress opens in Washington, DC
Lawmaking/Litigating - The third session of the 37th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC between December 1 and December 22, 1862
Science/Technology - Around midnight, a total eclipse of the Moon is visible across much of the United States
Battles/Soldiers - Battle of Fredericksburg
Lawmaking/Litigating Senatorial caucus meets to discuss Cabinet crisis
Lawmaking/Litigating The third session of the 37th Congress adjourns for a two-week holiday recess
Lawmaking/Litigating - The third session of the 37th Congress is in a two-week holiday recess until January 6, 1863
Battles/Soldiers - The Battle of Stone's River, December 31, 1862-January 2, 1863
Lawmaking/Litigating The Homestead Act comes into effect
Lawmaking/Litigating President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863
Personal Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the Modern Olympic Games is born in Paris
Battles/Soldiers At Port Royal, South Carolina, the 1st South Carolina Colored Infantry receives its regimental colors
Personal Mary Brown decides to move to California in 1863