Click 👉Today in History (general history) May 22.
On This Day in Confederate History, May 22.
1863: Second Assault on Vicksburg: Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton and his Confederate garrison at Vicksburg, Miss. bloodily repulses the second Federal frontal assault by Maj. Gen. U.S. Grant's Federal invaders on the strong fortifications there. Grant preceded the frontal assault with an all-night artillery barrage. He then launched the corps of Sherman, McPherson, and McClernand, but each one is signally repulsed. McClernand's assaults on the Confederate right had some breakthroughs but Confederate counterattacks recovered each break in the lines. Particularly notable was the fighting at the Railroad Redoubt and the 2nd Texas Lunette. Grants gave up on taking Vicksburg by storm, and the fighting settles into a siege. Federal casualties in the failed frontal attack total 502 killed, 2,550 wounded, and 147 missing. Confederates lost about 500 men in killed and wounded.
1864: General Robert E. Lee once again disrupted Maj. Gen. Grant's Overland Campaign. Lee's Second Corps, under Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, beat Grant to Hanover Junction along the North Anna River.
In the Atlanta Campaign in Georgia, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston set up his Army of Tennessee in a new defensive position at Altoona Pass. But Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman's Army of the Tennessee once again outflanks Johnston, who has to again retreat closer to Atlanta.
Confederate General Birthdays, May 22.
Brigadier General Richard Lee Turberville Beale was born on this day in 1819 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. A prewar lawyer and Virginia politician, Beale was elected to the 30th Congress in 1847-1840, and to the Virginia Senate from 1858-to 1860. He served in the 9th Virginia Cavalry as a captain and major, then was promoted to brigadier general. His battles and campaigns included the Battle of Brandy Station, the Battle of Gettysburg, the Battle of Culpepper Court House, the Bristoe Campaign, the Mine River Campaign, the Siege of Petersburg, and the Second Battle of Ream's Station. Beale was wounded and captured on April 9, 1865, at the Battle of Appomattox Court House, Va. Following the war, Beale became active in politics again and was elected to the 45th and 46th Congresses. He also practiced law and wrote a history of the Ninth Virginia Cavalry. Beale died April 21, 1893, near Hague, Va., and was buried there in Hickory Wood Cemetery.
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