WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1862
Find out what all happened August to December 1862

American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war. (17. September 1862)

American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam. (13. September 1862)

American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas. (28. August 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)

Slavery in the United States: a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released. (22. September 1862)

American Civil War: the Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (6. August 1862)

American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly – Confederate Army troops defeat a group of retreating Union Army troops in Chantilly, Virginia. (1. September 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: The Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. (31. December 1862)

American Civil War: Major General J.E.B. Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. (17. August 1862)

American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American military history. (17. September 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: Battle of Baton Rouge – along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops attempt to take the city, but are driven back by fire from Union gunboats. (5. August 1862)

American Civil War – Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General Horatio Wright. (30. August 1862)

American Indian Wars: during an uprising in Minnesota, Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily-defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way. (19. August 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)

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

American Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North. (4. September 1862)

James Glaisher, pioneering meteorologist and Henry Tracey Coxwell break world record for altitude whilst collecting data in their balloon. (5. September 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)