1862
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1862 was 9 years before the founding of the City of Birmingham and the 43rd year of Alabama statehood.
Events
- An experiment conducted at the Tannehill Ironworks proved iron ore from Red Mountain could successfully be used in blast furnaces.
- Samuel Tarrant raised the Jonesboro Guards.
Business
- The Brierfield Ironworks contracted with the Confederate government to supply iron to the Confederate Naval Ordnance Works in Selma.
- William L. Sanders bought the Tannehill Ironworks.
- Horace Ware sold most of his shares in the Shelby County Iron Manufacturing Corporation to other investors, which was then renamed the Shelby Iron Company.
Individuals
- April: Benjamin Roden was wounded by a musket ball to the knee at the Battle of Shiloh.
- August: Alburto Martin was permanently injured by a shell at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
- August 16: Abner Killough succeeded Richard Hudson for his second time as Jefferson County Sheriff.
- October 2: Chambers McAdory wounded at the Battle of Corinth and taken prisoner.
- November 7: Samuel Ullman won his discharge from the Confederate Army after providing a substitute.
- William Payton Hickman became Jefferson County Treasurer.
- John Terry entered the Confederate army as a 1st Lieutenant.
- N. F. Thompson enlisted with the Rock City Guards at Corinth.
- William Walker, Sr closed his store and retired due to lack of faith in Confederate currency.
Births
- May 6: Oscar Underwood, United States Representative and Senator
- September 20: Robert Terrell, banker
- Sylvester Daly, iron-worker, saloonkeeper and member of the Birmingham Board of Aldermen
- John Manning, Bessemer police officer
- Idyl King Sorsby (as Idyl King), designer of the Flag of Birmingham
Deaths
- April 30: Joseph Stroup, Confederate soldier
Context
In 1862, the Civil War and Taiping Rebellion continued.
Books published in 1862 included .
Notable births in 1862 included . Notable deaths included .
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