Historical Events
- Sep 1 Battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties)
- Sep 1 Federal tax levied on tobacco
Maryland Campaign
Sep 4 General Lee begins the Maryland Campaign invading the North with 50,000 Confederate troops (US Civil war)
- Sep 4 North Beach & Mission Railway Company organized in San Francisco
- Sep 5 Confederate General Robert E. Lee crosses the Potomac and enters Maryland
Jackson Occupies Frederick
Sep 6 Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland
- Sep 9 Robert E. Lee splits his army & sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry
British Golf Open
Sep 11 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Tom Morris Sr retains his title; beats Willie Park Sr. by 3 strokes
- Sep 12 Battle of Harpers Ferry, Virginia: Stonewall Jackson's Confederate force attacks and later captures the Union held town
- Sep 14 Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops win a tactical victory over Confederate forces
- Sep 14 Battle at South Mountain: Union troops defeat an outnumbered Confederate force
- Sep 14 Battle of Munfordville, Kentucky, begins
- Sep 14 Federal troops escape from beleaguered Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
- Sep 14 Skirmish at Fox's Gap, American Civil War
- Sep 15 Confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
- Sep 16 Confederate General Braxton Bragg's army surrounds 4,000 federals at Munfordville, Kentucky
- Sep 17 American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war; 78 workers killed.
- Sep 17 Battle of Antietam [Battle of Sharpsburg], bloodiest day in the American Civil War: 22,000 dead, wounded or missing in first battle on Union soil
- Sep 17 Battle of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee - evacuated by Federals
- Sep 17 Battle of Mumfordville, Kentucky, US Col J Wilder surrenders city
- Sep 18 Confederate armies officially divide into corps
- Sep 18 General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia
- Sep 19 -20] Battle at Blackford's Ford, Virginia
- Sep 19 Battle at Iuka Mississippi (1,700 casualties)
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Sep 22 US President Abraham Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, threatening to free all enslaved people in the rebel southern states if those states fail to re-join the Union by January 1, 1863 [1]
The German Empire
Sep 23 Otto von Bismarck appointed Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Prussia by King Wilhelm I
- Sep 23 US President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is published in northern newspapers [1]
- Sep 24 Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
- Sep 25 Skirmish at Davis' Bridge, Tennessee
- Sep 30 First Battle of Newtonia (American Civil War), Newton County, Missouri
- Sep 30 Minister-President of Prussia Otto von Bismarck delivers his famous "Blood and Iron" speech on the unification of German territories
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 Adolphe Appia, Swiss set designer and theorist (Wagner Opera sets), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1928)
- Sep 2 Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer, conductor, and essayist, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1936)
- Sep 2 Franjo Krežma, Croatian violinist, born in Osijek, Croatia (d. 1881)
- Sep 11 Hawley Harvey Crippen [Dr Crippen], American homeopath and first killer to be caught with the aid of wireless telegraphy, born in Coldwater, Michigan (d. 1910)
- Sep 11 Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, British army officer, born in Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire, England (d. 1935)
O. Henry (1862-1910)
Sep 11 American short story writer (Cabbages and Kings), born in Greensboro, North Carolina
- Sep 13 Dirk Bos, Dutch Liberal 2nd Member of Parliament, born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1916)
- Sep 19 Adeline De Walt Reynolds, American actress (Son of Dracula), born in Benton County, Iowa (d. 1961)
- Sep 21 James E. Talmage, English religious leader (LDS Church apostle), born in Hungerford, Berkshire, England (d. 1933)
- Sep 21 Johan Castberg, Norwegian politician (Castbergian Child Laws protecting extra-martial children), born in Brevik, Norway (d. 1926)
- Sep 25 Billy Hughes, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (Labor, Nationalist: 1915-23), born in London (d. 1952)
- Sep 25 Léon Boëllmann, French organist and composer (Variations Symphoniques; Suite Gothique), born in Ensisheim, Alsace, France (d. 1897)
Louis Botha (1862-1919)
Sep 27 Boer general and statesman, 1st Prime Minister of South Africa (1910-19), born in Greytown, Natal
- Sep 30 Georgy Eduardovich Konyus (Conus), Russian composer, and music theorist, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1933)
Famous Weddings
- Sep 16 Future Queen of Hawaii Lili'uokalani (24) weds American secretary John Owen Dominis (29) until his death in 1891
Leo Tolstoy
Sep 23 Russian novelist and author of "War and Peace" Leo Tolstoy (34) marries Sophia Andreevna Behrs (18) daughter of a physician in Moscow, Russia until his death in 1910
Famous Deaths
- Sep 1 Isaac Ingalls Stevens, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 44
- Sep 1 Oliver Tilden, of the Bronx, killed in Civil War in Virginia
- Sep 1 Philip "Phil" Kearny, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 48
- Sep 2 Thornton F Brodhead, US lawyer/politician/brigadier general, dies at 40
- Sep 10 Carlos Antonio López, 1st President of Paraguay (1844-62), dies at 71
- Sep 14 Jesse Lee Reno, Union general-major (Reno Nevada), dies at 39
- Sep 14 Samuel Garland Jr, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at 31
- Sep 17 Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 41
- Sep 17 William Edwin Starke, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at about 48
- Sep 19 [Lewis] Henry Little, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at 45
- Sep 29 William "Bull" Nelson, Union general-major, murdered after an argument by fellow Union officer General Jefferson C. Davis at 38
- Sep 30 Isaac Peace Rodman, American banker and Brigadier General (Union Army), dies of injury at about 40
