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4 unusual facts about 1862


Frederick A. Tallmadge

He was Clerk of the New York Court of Appeals from 1863 to 1865, elected in 1862 on the Democratic/Constitutional Union ticket.

Gaylord J. Clarke

In 1862, he was elected on the Democratic ticket an Inspector of State Prisons, being in office from 1863 to 1865.

John Paul Verree

He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1862.

John Sleeper Clarke

but it was not until he became again, in 1861-'62, to the same theatre that he made a conspicuous mark.


10th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 10th West Virginia was organized at Camp Pickens, Canaan, Glenville, Clarkesville, Sutton, Philippi, and Piedmont in western Virginia between March 12 and May 18, 1862.

Aasta Hansteen

In 1862 she published anonymously a small book written in Nynorsk and had the distinction of being the first woman to publish in this language.

Abel Smith

Abel Henry Smith (1862–1930), MP for Christchurch 1892–1900 and Hertford 1900-1910

Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī

For other works said to have been written by al-Hamdānī see G. L. Flügel's Die grammatischen Schulen der Araber (Leipzig, 1862), pp.

Aeneas James George Mackay

He went on to University College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1862, proceeding M.A. in 1865, and then at Heidelberg University, completing his legal curriculum at Edinburgh University, where he was one of the first to obtain the degree of LL.B.

Andrew Byrne

Andrew Byrne (December 5, 1802 – June 10, 1862) was an Irish-American Catholic priest, who became the first Bishop of Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.A..

Army of Central Kentucky

After being exchanged in August 1862, Buckner was promoted to major general and commanded a division with these same forces in the Army of Mississippi under the leadership of Gen. Braxton Bragg.

Benjamin C. Truman

When the Civil War began, he became a war correspondent, then declined a commission in 1862 to become a staff aide to Andrew Johnson, military governor of Tennessee, and Generals James S. Negley, John H. King and Kenner Garrard.

Bogor Botanical Gardens

In 1862, the Cibodas Botanical Gardens were founded as an extension of the Bogor garden at Cibodas, approximately 45 kilometers to the southeast of Bogor.

Bonaventura Cerretti

In the summer of 1930 in Rome he was painted by his friend the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862-1947).

Burt-Stark Mansion

A banker from Charleston, South Carolina, Andrew Simonds, bought it from Hoyt, and in 1862 sold it to Armistead Burt, who owned it when Jefferson Davis used the building.

Carlos Eugénio Correia da Silva, Count of Paço de Arcos

As a 27 year old second lieutenant in 1862 the Count of Paço d'Arcos also commanded the schooner Napier in pursuit of the US confederate pirate ship CSS Alabama in the mid Atlantic near the Azores.

Charles' Church, Tallinn

Charles Church (Estonian: Kaarli kirik) is a Lutheran church in Tallinn, Estonia, built 1862-1870 to plans by Otto Pius Hippius.

Conrad Krez

Krez was City Attorney of Sheboygan from 1856 to 1859 and District Attorney of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin from 1859 to 1862 and again from 1870 to 1876.

Edward Boddington

Edward Robert Boddington was born 29 April 1862 in Wakefield and died 4 March 1897 in Perth, Western Australia.

Edward Salomon

He was lieutenant governor of Wisconsin from 1860 to 1862 before becoming governor after Harvey drowned in the Tennessee River while visiting Wisconsin troops after the Battle of Shiloh.

General Johnston

Albert Sidney Johnston (1803–1862), Confederate American Civil War general who was killed in action at the battle of Shiloh

Gilbert L. Laws

His left leg was amputated below the knee as a result of being wounded in the Battle of Williamsburg on May 5, 1862.

Gus C. Henderson

Gus C. Henderson (November 16, 1862–1915) was an influential African American in the heart of Central Florida.

Gustavus Blin Wright

He arrived in British Columbia on February 28, 1862 aboard the steamer Brother Jonathan and began a partnership that operated vessels on the route between San Francisco and New Westminster.

Hans Christian Andersen bibliography

Anden Samling (New fairy-tales and stories. - Second series. Second collection) ("The Ice-Maiden", "The Butterfly", "The Psyche", "The Snail and the Rosebush"), C.A. Reitzel Publishers, 1862 (appeared 25 November 1861).

Hans Ferdinand Emil Julius Stichel

Hans Ferdinand Emil Julius Stichel (16 February 1862 Wronki- 2 October 1936 Berlin) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.

Heck Thomas

On September 1, 1862, Union General Philip Kearny was killed at the Battle of Chantilly, Young "Heck" was entrusted with the general's horse and equipment and was ordered by Confederate General Robert E. Lee to take them through the lines to General Kearny's widow.

Homestead principle

Ayn Rand has not elaborated on the characteristics of homesteading, but had expressed support for compatible laws, such as favourably citing the Homestead Act (1862).

Karl Graedener

From 1862 to 1865 he taught singing and music theory at the Vienna Conservatory and then at the Hamburg Conservatory until his death.

Laval Nugent von Westmeath

Nugent died on 22 August 1862 in the Bosiljevo Castle, near Karlovac, and his body was later transferred to a sarcophagus in the Doric temple "Peace for the Hero", in Trsat above Rijeka, next to the sarcophagus of his wife.

Lee's Mill Earthworks

Confederate Major General John B. Magruder's extensive defensives beginning at Lee's Mill and extending to Yorktown along the Warwick River caused the Union Army of the Potomac Commander Major General George B. McClellan to initiate a month-long siege of the Warwick-Yorktown Line which lasted until May 3, 1862 and contributed to the eventual failure of McClellan's campaign.

Liverpool Infirmary

This was established in 1862 and was the second only Nightingale nurse training school in the United Kingdom, after the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery in London.

Mary Frere

Mary's father had served in the colonial administration of Bombay since 1834, and in 1862 he was appointed Governor of Bombay.

Max Bruch

Bruch had a long career as a teacher, conductor and composer, moving among musical posts in Germany: Mannheim (1862–1864), Koblenz (1865–1867), Sondershausen, (1867–1870), Berlin (1870–1872), and Bonn, where he spent 1873–78 working privately.

Morritt

William Morritt (c.1813–1874), British Conservative Member of Parliament 1862–1865

Olry

Olry Terquem (1782–1862), French mathematician who proved Feuerbach's theorem about the nine-point circle of a triangle

Poeville, Nevada

John Poe, a professional promoter from Michigan allegedly related to Edgar Allan Poe, discovered rich gold and silver veins in 1862 on the slopes of Peavine Mountain.

Puerto Rico Firefighters Corps

In 1862, under the auspices of the mayor of Ponce, Luis Quijano Font, the fire corps was reorganized as The Fire Services and Thomas Cladellas was appointed Fire Chief.

Rippon, West Virginia

In one of these, on November 9, 1862, Union General John W. Geary undertook a reconnaissance mission from Harpers Ferry.

Robert Henry Meade

Following his return, he was in attendance on the Queen during her visit to Coburg later in 1862.

Ryssby Church

In 1862, Sven J. Johnson, an agent for the White Star Line, along with Bengt Johnson, Aaron Peterson, Sven Magni, Peter Johnson, Lars J. Johnson and Samuel Gummeson, set off from their homeland in Ryssby, Sweden, to come to America seeking free land under the Homestead Act.

Samuel Bache

In 1862 the New Meeting, Moor Street, was sold to Roman Catholics, the congregation removing to a handsome structure in Broad Street, called the Church of the Messiah, Birmingham (foundation laid 11 August 1860).

San Elizario Spy Company

On January 25, 1862 two NCOs and seven privates from the Company were detached to help form Sherod Hunter's Company A, Arizona Rangers, that were sent to occupy Tucson, Arizona.

Satsuma Domain

In 1862, in the Namamugi Incident an Englishman was killed by retainers of Satsuma, leading to the bombardment of Kagoshima by the Royal Navy the following year.

Schnellzug

In 1861 the first express train ran from Vienna to Budapest, in 1862 express services began on the Vienna to Dresden line via Prague and in 1868 the first express ran from Vienna via Krakau and Lemberg to Bucharest.

Soleá

The earliest known mention of them, referred to as "soledades", is that of Spanish poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, in 1862.

St. Stephen's Church, Delhi

The church was built in 1862, by Anglican missionaries and DPW Engineers in the style of Italian Gothic architecture.

Thomas M. Edwards

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress.

Vartry Reservoir

Between 1862 and 1868 the lower reservoir was formed by constructing an earthen dam across the valley of the River Vartry after a Dublin Water Works Committee was established to develop a new water supply to Dublin and suburbs.

Vernors

Vernor joined the 4th Michigan Cavalry on August 14, 1862 as a hospital steward, was promoted to second lieutenant on September 20, 1864, and was discharged on July 1, 1865.

Wedding dress of Princess Alice

On 1 July 1862, in the dining room of Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, she married Prince Louis of Hesse.

William Horwood Stuart

William H. Stuart was born in Harrow, London, in 1857 to William Stuart M.A. (1816-1896), who later served as Vicar of Mundon, Essex (1862-1889), and Rector of Hazeleigh, Essex (1889-1896).

William W. Thomas, Jr.

At only 23 years of age, and full of enthusiasm for his task, he was appointed consul to Gothenburg, Sweden on October 23, 1862.


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