What Happened in January 1862

Historical Events

Jan 3 Romney Campaign: Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester, Virginia

Jan 4 Romney Campaign: Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath, West Virginia
Jan 7 Romney Campaign: Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney, West Virginia
Jan 9 The first petroleum shipment (1,329 barrels) from the U.S. to Europe arrives at Victoria Docks, London, England aboard the Elizabeth Watts
Jan 10 Battle of Big Sandy River, KY (Middle Creek)
Jan 10 Romney expedition, Confederate Army military expedition begins in Romney, West Virginia (US Civil War)
Jan 16 Hartley Colliery disaster in Northumberland, England, results in 204 deaths
Jan 17 -Jan 22nd) BBT Ft Henry, Tennessee by USS Lexington
Jan 18 Confederate Territory of Arizona forms
Jan 19 Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky (Fishing Creek, Logan's Crossroads)
Jan 22 Confederate government raises premium for volunteers from $10 to $20
Jan 23 Agoston Haraszthy, 1st vintner in Sonoma Valley, California imports 10,000 grape vine cuttings
Jan 24 Romanian principality arises under King Alexander Cuza. Bucharest proclaimed its capital.

Jan 26 Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive, General George McClellan ignores order

Jan 30 USS Monitor, the US Navy's 1st ironclad warship launched
Jan 31 Astronomer Alvan Graham Clark makes first observation of Sirius B (first known white dwarf star) in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts while testing his new telescope

Jan 3 Sir Matthew Nathan, British Governor of Queensland and other places (d. 1939)
Jan 8 Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (founder of Doubleday & Co), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1934)
Jan 10 Walter Travis, Australian-American golfer, writer, course designer (US Amateur C'ship 1900-01, 03; British Amateur 1904), born in Maldon, Australia (d. 1927)
Jan 17 John Evert Akkeringa, Dutch painter and etcher (d. 1942)
Jan 23 David Hilbert, German mathematician (Hilbert spaces, invariant theory, axiomatization of geometry), born in Königsberg, East Prussia (d. 1943)

Jan 24 American Pulitzer prize-winning novelist (Ethan Frome, House of Mirth), born in New York City

Jan 29 Frederick Delius, British composer (A Mass of Life; Brigg Fair; In a Summer Garden), born in Bradford, England (d. 1934)
Jan 30 Walter Damrosch, German-American conductor (New York Symphony, 1885-1928; commissioned Gershwin's Piano Concerto), and composer (The Man Without A Country), born in Breslau, Silesia (d. 1950) [1]

Jan 10 American inventor, firearms manufacturer, and industrialist (Colt 6 shot revolver), dies of gout at 47

Jan 18 American politician, 10th US President (1841-45), dies in Richmond, at 71

Jan 19 Felix Zollicoffer, American journalist and Confederate Brigadier General, killed in action at the Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky at 49
Jan 24 James McIntosh, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at about 33