1862

Events 
September 5: In the American Civil War, Confederate General Robert E. Lee invades Maryland, leading 55,000 soldiers from the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. They cross the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia. This is the Confederacy's first invasion of the North. 

 Births 
 August 29 – Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
 September 25 – Billy Hughes, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
 December 23 - Henri Pirenne, Belgian historian (d. 1935)
Deaths

January 18 - John Tyler, 71, tenth President of the United States, stroke (b. 1790)

July 24 - Martin Van Buren, 79, eighth President of the United States, bronchial asthma and heart failure (b. 1782) 

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