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1862

1862

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Events

Boone County

  • September 25 - Leading elements of Morgan's Raiders, local Confederate colonel Basil Duke captures Federal troops at Snow's Pond.

Kentucky

  • October 8, 1862 - The Battle of Perryville begins. This battle would prove to be the bloodiest ever to occur on Kentucky soil.

U.S. & World

  • The Merrimack and the Monitor meet in the first naval battle between ironclad ships at the Battle of Hampton Roads.
  • General Robert E. Lee is placed in command of the Army of Northern Virginia.
  • August 17 - The Sioux Uprising begins along the Minnesota River. It eventually results in the expulsion of the Dakota people from Minnesota.

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