Click 👉 TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) April 22.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, April 22.
1861: ARKANSAS SECESSION: Arkansas Gov. H.M. Rector refuses Lincoln's demand to contribute Arkansas men to his call for 75,000 volunteers, nationwide, to subjugate the seceded Southern states. The reaction to Lincoln's war was similar in Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina--SECESSION.
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1863: VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN: At Vicksburg, Miss., 18 Federal vessels run past the Confederate guns but 7 are sunk (one transport and 6 barges), and 11 make it and bring supplies to Grant's army. President Davis suggested to Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton that he send fire rafts downriver to obstruct Federal river traffic.
1864: Red River Campaign: At Natchitoches, La., Confederate cavalry under Brig. Gen. William Steele saves the town from being burned down by retreating Federals of A.J. Smith's division from Sherman's army. Steele reported he had only one regiment available to him that morning, the 19th Texas Cavalry of Parson's brigade, and he ordered them to press the retreating bluecoats. The Northern arsonists lit several fires but before they could burn the town, the Confederate horse soldiers drove them out and saved the community. The Federals, further down the road to Alexandria, burned Magnolia Plantation's main house and killed the overseer on the front porch.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, April 22.
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