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1862 in the American Civil War
- Confederate Heartland OffensiveThe Confederate Heartland Offensive lasted from the 14th of August to the 10th of October, 1862, and it posed a question that General Braxton Bragg believed…
- Battle of Island Number TenThe Battle of Island Number Ten, fought across five weeks in early 1862, ended with thousands of Confederate soldiers in Union hands.
- Battle of Stones RiverOn the last night of 1862, two armies camped within 700 yards of each other in Middle Tennessee, separated by little more than a field's width and the…
- Battle of AntietamThe Battle of Antietam, fought on the 17th of September 1862, produced more American casualties in a single day than any other engagement before or since.
- Battle of FredericksburgThe Battle of Fredericksburg, fought from December 11 to 15 of 1862, produced one of the most lopsided casualty counts of the entire American Civil War.
- Union blockadeThe Union blockade, proclaimed by President Abraham Lincoln on the 19th of April 1861, set out to strangle the Confederate economy by sealing off its…
- Battle of Fort HenryOn the morning of the 6th of February, 1862, Brig. Gen. Lloyd Tilghman stood inside a fort that was more than half underwater.
- Battle of PerryvilleThe Battle of Perryville began before dawn on the 8th of October 1862. Men of the 10th Indiana pushed toward a nearly dry stretch of Doctor's Creek, west of…
- Battle of Fort DonelsonThe Battle of Fort Donelson, fought in February 1862 along the Cumberland River, produced one of the most famous surrender demands in American military…
- First Battle of MemphisThe Mississippi River ran red with smoke on the morning of the 6th of June 1862. Eight Confederate vessels faced nine Union gunboats just north of Memphis…
- Battle of Hampton RoadsThe Battle of Hampton Roads began on the morning of the 8th of March 1862, when a strange ironclad vessel steamed out of Confederate waters and into a harbor…
- Battle of ShilohThe Battle of Shiloh began not with a grand charge but with a midnight decision by a junior officer who disobeyed orders.
- Battle of Forts Jackson and St. PhilipThe Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip decided who would hold New Orleans, the largest city in the Confederacy. Two Confederate forts stood on the…
- Battle of RichmondThe Battle of Richmond, Kentucky, unfolded on the 29th and the 30th of August 1862. Confederate Major General Edmund Kirby Smith's army broke Union Major…
- Capture of New OrleansThe Capture of New Orleans, fought from the 25th of April to the 1st of May 1862, decided the fate of the Confederacy's largest and most prosperous city in a…
- Battle of Pea RidgeThe Battle of Pea Ridge lasted just two days in March 1862, but its outcome settled the fate of Missouri for the rest of the Civil War.
- Battle of Seven PinesThe Battle of Seven Pines takes its name from a crossroads in Virginia where seven large pine trees once clustered together, and it was there, on the 31st of…