1862

James DICKERSON’s letters to his wife Clary were written in the year 1862.  Of interest are other events that happened the same year:

• The first income tax was implemented;  3% of incomes less than $600.
• Paper money called ‘greenbacks’ were issued to the United States by President Abraham Lincoln.
• The United States Mint was established by Congress in Denver CO.
• Bucharest was proclaimed the capitol of Romania.
• Julia Howe published “Battle Hymn of the Republic”.
• The U.S. Navy’s first ironclad ship was launched and in the same year their ironclad ship ‘Monitor’ sank off Cape Hatteras, N.C.
• Congress outlaws polygamy.
• Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln, freeing slaves in the U.S.
• The Battle of Antietam was fought and was the single most deadly day of the Civil War with 23,110 casualties.
• 1st pasteuriztion test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard.
• The bowling ball was invented.