1862

Events

 * February 18:
 * William Yancey becomes a Confederate Senator of Alabama
 * October 17:
 * David Davis becomes an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

Births

 * March 25:
 * George Alexander Sutherland - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (d. 1942)
 * April 11:
 * Charles Evans Hughes Sr. - Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1948)

Deaths

 * February 20:
 * William Wallace Lincoln - Son of President Abraham Lincoln (b. 1850)