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• March 9
  * 1862: The ironclad warships Monitor and Merrimack engaged in a Civil War battle
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• March 7
  * 1862: The Battle of Pea Ridge, during the U.S. Civil War, began in the northwest
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• February 16
  * 1862: During the U.S. Civil War, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Flag Officer Andrew F
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• Directory:Henry David Thoreau
  Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendent
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• December 31
  * 1862, during the American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits [[
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• Directory:Elkhart, Indiana
  ...n-sided sightseeing cars, steam powered by a one-third scale replica of an 1862 locomotive, are used for a 1.5~mile ride over a completely hand-laid railwa
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• Directory:John Tyler
  | death_date={{death date and age|1862|01|18|1790|03|29}} '''John Tyler, Jr.''' ([[March 29]], [[1790]] – [[January 18]], [[1862]]) was the tenth (1841-1845) [[President of the United States]]. A long-tim
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• June 1
  *[[1862]] - [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Fair Oaks]] ends, with both sides *[[1815]] - [[Philip Kearny]], American general (d. [[1862]])
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• Directory:Louisiana
  ...isturbed. Only three other states experienced more loss and destruction.In 1862, however, New Orleans was captured. In 1863 the longest siege in American m ...The Corps d'Afrique at Port Hudson was sworn into service on September 27, 1862.
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• Directory:Logic Museum/Etienne Gilson
  ...Cartesian thought. After studying at the [[Sorbonne]] under Victor Delbos (1862-1916) and [[Lucien Levy-Bruhl]] and at the [[Collège de France]] under [[H
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• Brandywine Springs
  ...e Fourth Regiment, Delaware Volunteer Infantry from June through October [[1862]], whence they moved to a camp of the same name near Kennett Pike (now Rout
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• Directory:Nevada
  ...enlarged by increasing its eastern boundary by one degree of longitude in 1862. It was rushed into statehood in 1864, with Carson City as its capital. Pre ...as a reporter in the Midwest some years before moving to Virginia City in 1862.
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• Directory:Tennessee
  ...June. Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, defeated at Perryville, Ky. in Oct., 1862, retreated further in Jan., 1863, after the battle of Murfreesboro, and Gra ...The Union military government that had been set up under Andrew Johnson in 1862 was succeeded in Apr., 1865, by a civil government headed by Brownlow. An a
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• Directory:Virginia
  ...nvading enemy country. However, in the battles of Fredericksburg (Dec. 13, 1862) and Chancellorsville (May 2–4, 1863), the Federals under Gen. Ambrose E. * On March 9, 1862 at Hampton Roads, Virginia, the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (formerly
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• Directory:Martin Van Buren
  | death_date={{death date and age|1862|7|24|1782|12|5}} '''Martin Van Buren''' ([[December 5]] [[1782]] – [[July 24]] [[1862]]), nicknamed ''Old [[Kinderhook (village), New York|Kinderhook]]'', was th
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• Directory:Andrew Johnson
  | term_end3=[[March 4]], [[1862]] ...cession, and became the most prominent [[War Democrat]] from the South. In 1862 Lincoln appointed Johnson military governor of Tennessee, where he proved e
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• Directory:Indiana
  ...ing this time. Richard Gatling of Indianapolis invented the machine gun in 1862. In 1885, the first gasoline pump was developed in Fort Wayne. Elwood Hayne * In 1862, Richard Gatling, of Indianapolis, invented the rapid-fire machine gun.
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• Naval architecture in the Industrial Age
  ...ive=9325 Forests and Sea Power: The Timber Problem of the Royal Navy, 1652-1862], Robert Greenhalgh Albion, '''[[Directory:Naval Institute Press|Naval Inst
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• Directory:Nebraska
  ...e a rush. Farmers settled on free land obtained under the Homestead Act of 1862, and E Nebraska took on a settled look. The population rose from 28,841 in
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• Directory:Idaho
  ...earwater River in 1860, on the Salmon in 1861, in the Boise River basin in 1862, and gold and silver were found in the Owyhee River country in 1863. The us
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