Click 👉Today in History (general history) Sept. 22.
On This Day in Confederate History, Sept. 22.
1861: U.S. Sen. and Brig. Gen. James Lane and his 2,000 Kansas Jayhawkers sacked the town of Osceola, Missouri and capture a supply train for the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard. However, the raid ended in plundering the town and civilians. There were only 200 Missouri militiamen under Missouri State Guard Captain John M. Weidemeyer to defend the town. The badly outnumbered militiamen were soon forced to retreat, and the drunken Jayhawkers set to looting the town and burning everything in sight.
1863: Confederates in the Army of Tennesse under Gen. Braxton Bragg besieged Chattanooga, Tennessee and skirmished with Federals at Missionary Ridge and Shallow Ford Gap and occupied the high ground on Missionary Ridge. In the meantime, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant strikes out of Vicksburg, Mississippi with three divisions of the XV Army Corps of the Army of the Tennessee to relieve Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans and the Army of the Cumberland at Chattanooga.
1864: The conclusion of the Battle of Fisher's Hill, Va. sees Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan with about 35,000 bluecoats, overwhelms Lt. Gen. Jubal Earl's Army of the Valley forcing them to retreat up the Shenandoah with the loss of about 1,234 men, mostly captured. Federal losses number 528. The defeated Confederates concentrate at Waynesboro, Va.
Confederate General Birthdays, Sept. 22.
Lieutenant General Stephen Dill Lee, a distant cousin of General Robert E. Lee, was born on this day in 1833 in Charleston, South Carolina. He graduated from West Point in 1850 ranking 17th in a class of 46 cadets. Lee served as a second lieutenant in the 4th U.S. Infantry Regiment and was promoted to the first lieutenant in 1856. He took part in the Seminole Wars in 1857. Lee resigned from the U.S. Army in 1861 and became a captain in the South Carolina Militia. On March 16, 1861, he was commissioned a captain in the Confederate Army and served on the staff of Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard. Promotions rapidly followed and he was elevated to brigadier general on Nov. 6, 1862, to major general on August 3, 1863, and to lieutenant general on June 23, 1864. His battles and campaigns included Fort Sumter, the Peninsula Campaign, Seven Pines, Savage's Station, Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Chickasaw Bayou, the Vicksburg Campaign, Champion's Hill (wounded), the Siege of Vicksburg, Siege of Chattanooga, Tupelo, Atlanta Campaign, Ezra Church, Utoy Creek, Jonesborough, Franklin-Nashville Campaign, Spring Hill, Franklin, Nashville, and the Carolina Campaign. Following the war, he lived in Columbus, Mississippi, served in the Mississippi State Senate, and was the first president of Mississippi A&M College. Lee served as commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans and gave the Sons of Confederate Veterans their "charge" in 1906 at the UCV Reunion in New Orleans. He died on May 28, 1908, in Vicksburg, Miss., and was buried in Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, Miss.
Brigadier General Eppa Hunton was born on this day in 1822 in Fauquier County, Virginia. He practiced law in Brentsville, Va. before the war and was active in the state militia achieving the rank of brigadier general. He was a delegate at the Virginia Secession Convention and when the war came, was commissioned a colonel of the 8th Virginia Infantry. He was promoted the brigadier general in August 1863. His battles and campaigns included First Manassas, Ball's Bluff, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Frazier's Farm, Gaines' Mill, Second Manassas, South Mountain, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg (wounded), Cold Harbor, the Richmond and Petersburg Campaign, Five Forks, and Sayler's Creek. Following the war, he practiced law in Virginia and was elected to the U.S. Congress (serving both in the House and Senate). Hunton was also active in the United Confederate Veterans. Hunton died Oct. 11, 11, 1908 in Richmond, Va., and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery.
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