WHAT ALL HAPPENED OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 1862
Find out what all happened October to December 1862

American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. (31. December 1862)

In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation. (1. December 1862)

American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg. (14. November 1862)

USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine. (12. December 1862)

American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats Union Major General Ambrose Burnside. (13. December 1862)

American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General James G. Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates. (28. November 1862)

American Civil War: In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the north. (11. October 1862)

American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time. (5. November 1862)

American Civil War: Battle of Perryville – Union forces under General Don Carlos Buell halt the Confederate invasion of Kentucky by defeating troops led by General Braxton Bragg at Perryville, Kentucky. (8. October 1862)

American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky. (17. December 1862)

American Civil War: Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas. (7. December 1862)

The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, 38 Native Americans die. (26. December 1862)

American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins. (26. December 1862)

American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed. (9. November 1862)

American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two. (31. December 1862)

American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved. (5. November 1862)

Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) opens as the first hospital in the Canadian province of British Columbia (7. October 1862)

Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship. (26. December 1862)