ACWS - On This Day in the American Civil War 22nd March

Col. William W. Loring, USA, assumes the command of the Dept. of New Mexico (Territory).

The following are appointed Union Major Generals:
- Don Carlos Buell, U.S.A.
- John Pope, U.S.A.
- Franz Sigel, U.S.A.
Richard James Oglesby, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
Operations in the Humboldt Military Division, C A. (Mar 22-Aug 31)
Skirmish at Little Santa Fe, or Independence, MO, as the 2nd KS Cavalry, under Col. Robert B. Mitchell, USA, search for the notorious guerrilla, William Clarke Quantrill.
The British vessel, the Oreto, embarks from Liverpool, England, for Nassau, the Bahamas Islands, which was sold to the Confederacy and will be renamed the CSS Florida.
Skirmish on the Post Oak, MO.
Skirmish at Kearnstown, VA, as Brig. Gen. James Shields, USA, encounters Maj. Gen. Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, CSA.
The Middle Military Dept. is constituted, under the command of Maj. Gen. John A. Dix, USA, headquartered at Baltimore, MD.

Skirmish near the head of the White River, AR, as the Confederates attack a party of Union men assisting a beef contractor with his cattle.
Brig. Gen. John Pegram's Confederate expedition into Kentucky. (Mar 22-Apr 1)
The capture of Mount Sterling, KY, by Col. R. S. Cluke, CSA, of Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan's Confederate Cavalry command.
Skirmish at Blue Springs, near Independence, MO, with guerrillas.
The destruction of the Confederate steamer, Georgiana, off the coast of Charleston, SC.
Skirmish near Murfreesborough, TN.
Affairs at Selecman's Ford, and at Mrs. Violett's, near Occoquan, VA, as the Confederates probably by men under Capt. John Mosby, CSA, capture yet another group of Union reserve pickets.

Brig. Gen. Nathan Kimball, USA, is assigned to the command of the Dept. of Arkansas, north of the Arkansas River, during the absence in the field of Maj. Gen. Frederick Steele, USA.
Skirmish with Indians at Bald Spring Canon, on the Eel River, CA, where 2 Indian men are killed.
Affair at Fancy Farms, KY, 10 miles south of Mayfield, where the postmaster was shot, the Catholic chapel destroyed, and the Willet & Boswell's store was broken into by the Confederates.
Maj. Gen. Lewis Wallace, USA, supersedes Brig. Gen. Henry H. Lockwood, USA, in the command of the Middle Dept., currently headquartered at Baltimore, MD.
Skirmish at Langley's Plantation, Issaquena County, MS, as the Federals travel aboard a tug to search for Confederates. The Union force included 1 company of the 66th US Colored Infantry.
Affair at Corpus Christi, TX.
Affair at Winchester, VA.

Theodore Washington Brevard, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
Brig. Gen. James Harrison Wilson's US Cavalry Raid, 13,500 strong, from Chickasaw to Selma, AL, and Macon, GA, in an attempt to destroy one of the last remaining munitions manufacturing facilities of the Confederacy. (Mar 22-Apr 24)
Brig. Gen. Edward Hatch, USA, assumes the command of all the troops of the Cavalry Corps, the Military Division of the Mississippi, remaining at Eastport, MS.
Guerrillas operations about Stephenson's Mill, 16 miles southwest of Salem, MO, on the Current River, as bushwackers set fire to, and burn the fort there, in part, for retaliation for the local miller failing to have the quantity of meal ground for 250 rebels they had demanded yesterday. (Mar 22-23)
Skirmish at Black Creek, NC.
Skirmish at Hannah's Creek, NC.
Skirmish at Mill Creek, NC.
Skirmish at Celina, TN.
Skirmish 9.5 miles from Patterson Creek Station, WV, as the Federal Cavalry attacks McNeill's Partisan Rangers.

On This Day information kindly provided by Martin Cross, 2nd U.S. Artillery, Bty B.