February 2, 1862 Captain David Farragut leaves Hampton Roads aboard the USS Hartford en route to assume command of military operations on the southern Mississippi River
February 4, 1862 Confederate forces in Fort Heiman withdraw to Fort Henry, across the Tennessee River
February 6, 1862 Battle of Fort Henry
February 7, 1862 Jackson withdraws from Romney and returns to Winchester
February 8, 1862 Battle of Roanoke Island -
Ambrose Burnside captures Roanoke Island with an amphibious force, taking some 2,765 Confederates as prisoners
February 9, 1862 Union Brigadier General Charles Stone arrested and taken to Fort Lafayette, New York and placed in solitary confinement. He was not told the reason for his confinement
February 10, 1862 Securing Roanoke Island, Ambrose Burnside's navy destroys a small squadron of Confederate vessels in Pamlico Sound.
February 10, 1862 Navy Secretary Gideon Welles forms an organization to review inventions and technical developments. The group eventually became today's National Academy of Science
February 13, 1862 General John Floyd assumes command at Ft. Donalson
February 16, 1862 Battle of Ft. Donelson -
General Ulysses S. Grant demands the unconditional surrender of the garrison from an old friend, Simon Bolivar Buckner
February 17, 1862 General John Floyd arrives in Nashville after leaving Simon Bolivar Buckner to surrender at Fort Donalson
February 18, 1862 The first Congress meets in Richmond, Virginia. Prior to this time, legislative duties had been carried out by secessionist convention
February 18, 1862 West Virginia Constitutional Convention adopts the first constitution of the state of West Virginia &nbs
February 20, 1862 William Wallace "Willie" Lincoln dies. The 12-year-old son of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln probably had typhoid fever.
February 21, 1862 In the "battle" of Valverde, Federal forces under Colonel E. R. S. Canby are driven into Fort Craig by Brigadier General H. H. Sibley.
February 22, 1862 Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the first (and only) President of the Confederate States of America. Alexander Stephens is inaugurated Vice President.
February 23, 1862 Ulysses S. Grant orders William Nelson to advance on Nashville
February 25, 1862 "Bull" Nelson enters Nashville, Tennessee, first Confederate state capital to fall into Union hands. Don Carlos Buell accepts the city's surrender. Nathan Bedford Forrest provides a rear guard for Hardee's Army of Central Kentucky as it withdraws to
Alabama.
February 28, 1862 Ford closes the theater for renovation = April 14, 1865 President Lincoln shot at the Ford Theatre
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