What day of the week was September 17, 1862?

The day of the week September 17th, 1862 fell on was a Wednesday.

Jean de Madre the French polo player (d. 1934) was born on 17 September in 1862.

American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam the the bloodiest day in American military history. American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.