What was the most significant event on April 22 during the U.S. Civil War?

1861: Secession on the table. What would be West Virginia moves towards a convention to break away from Virginia and be slave free. Maryland Governor pushes legislature to vote on secession. Maryland was slave holding state.
1862: Stonewall Jackson, having moved to Swift Run Gap, has disappeared off the radar screen.
1862: Additional Federal reinforcements swelled Federal General George B. McClellan’s already mighty ranks near Yorktown, Virginia, as the siege against Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston’s forces continued.
1864: Captured Union nurse criticized for her attire by the Richmond, VA newspaper.
Pictures; 1864 two penny coin “in God we trust”; 1863 Grierson raid map; 1864 western confederates
Since RallyPoint truncates survey selection text I am posting events that were not included and then the full text of each survey choice below:
A. Monday, April 22, 1861: Maryland Governor Thomas Holliday Hicks calls a session of the Maryland legislature to consider secession.
B. Wednesday, April 22, 1863: Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter, encouraged by light losses on his 1st try, ran a large supply flotilla past the Vicksburg batteries the night of the 22nd. Grant's forces south of Vicksburg are resupplied by Porter's fleet, which suffered heavy losses when transports and barges steamed by Confederate batteries. Sherman's troops, many at work on a canal project at Duckport, abandoned this work, joined in a last action along the Yazoo River, northeast of Vicksburg,
C. Friday, April 22, 1864: The motto "In God We Trust" approved for US coinage (Coinage Act of 1864)
"In God We Trust" Although Faith in God and Faith in the Union had been popular concepts throughout American history, they enjoyed a renewal of sorts during The Civil War. A Pennsylvania minister came up with the idea of adding a motto to coins minted by the United States and expressed his feelings in a letter to Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase on November 13, 1861, recommending the words "God, Liberty, Law" be added to all coins minted by the United States.
Chase liked the idea so much that within a week he told the director of the Philadelphia mint, "The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins. You will cause a device to be prepared without unnecessary delay with a motto expressing in the fewest and tersest words possible this national recognition." Mint director James Pollock decides to add the motto to the new one, two and three-penny designs then being worked on for future production. He proposed "Our God, Our Trust" and "God, Our Trust" to Chase. Unhappy with either recommendation, Chase personally came up with "In God We Trust."
Since both coins and mottos must be approved by Congress, the Coinage Act of 1864 was written approving the new motto and the new coins. The first coin actually minted to have the "In God We Trust" motto was the 1864 two-penny piece.
D. Friday, April 22, 1864 --- Red River, Louisiana: Skirmishing throughout the day spells trouble for the retreating Federals in Banks’ Red River expeditionary force, as the army slogs on downriver towards Alexandria. Gen. Banks, the Federal commander, had planned on an orderly retreat from Grand Ecore and Natchitoches, but Gen. Taylor and his Rebels were hot on the pursuit. Banks orders a warehouse of supplies put to the torch, and the fire spreads to the rest of Grand Ecore. Taylor has been relieved of most of his infantry by Gen. Kirby-Smith, who was directing the pursuit of Gen. Steele’s Federals in Arkansas, and so Taylor is pursuing Banks with mostly two understrength division of cavalry. The smoke of the fleeing Yankees leads Taylor to believe he has an opportunity: he might be able to trap the Federals as they try to cross the Cane River crossings---a tall order, considering that Banks had nearly 30,000, and Taylor only had 5,500. With Gen. John Wharton’s cavalry nipped at his rear guard, and Gen. Hamilton Bee’s cavalry harassing his advance, Banks’ strung-out column makes poor time. At Monett’s Ferry on the Cane River, Bee’s Rebels dig in on the bluffs above the crossing.
1. Tuesday, April 22, 1862 --- A Special Committee of the U.S. Senate issues a resolution declaring Sen. Starke of Oregon to be disloyal to the United States and in sympathy for the Southern cause.
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2. Tuesday, April 22, 1862 --- Gen. Halleck’s large combined army begins its laborious advance toward Corinth, today.
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3. Tuesday, April 22, 1862: Stonewall Jackson, having moved to Swift Run Gap, has disappeared off the radar screen. Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks, commander of the Union’s Army of the Shenandoah, informs Washington that Jackson has disappeared. Banks makes plans to advance farther up the valley, and sends a force toward Harrisonburg.
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4. Tuesday April 22, 1862: Additional Federal reinforcements swelled Federal General George B. McClellan’s already mighty ranks near Yorktown, Virginia, as the siege against Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston’s forces continued. In Arkansas Bay, Texas, daring Confederate raiders captured several Union launches.
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5. Wednesday, April 22, 1863 --- Grierson’s Raid: With the 7th and 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiments, Col. Grierson pushes further southward toward Louisville, Mississippi. He detaches B Troop of the 7th Illinois, under Capt. Henry Forbes, to strike at the railroad in Macon, 30 miles to the east. Grierson and the main column arrive at Louisville late in the day, and find the town boarded and shuttered to the Yankee arrival.
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6. Wednesday, April 22, 1863 --- George Templeton Strong writes about the war, black troops, and his own thoughts, in his journal, while revealing a surprisingly astute understanding of the role of slavery in propping up the Southern state---and a surprisingly prescient speculation about the future progress of the war: Then there is the great fact that Negro enlistments seem cordially approved by the Army at the West---at Cairo, Memphis, and elsewhere. Black regiments are (or soon will be) adopted into the national army with as little objection to their color as would be made to the use of a corral of black horses captured from the rebels, and our consent to let niggers enlist and fight is a heavier blow to the rebels than the annihilation of General Lee’s army would be.
All these indications forbid us to despair of the republic. But, unlike Seward, I expect no suppression of the rebellion with sixty or ninety days. Nor do I desire it. News of overtures of Jefferson Davis & Co. tomorrow would be worse than news of a grea crushing defeat suffered by Hooker, Grant, or Rosecrans. There can be no stable equilibrium and permanent peace till the peculiar institutions of the South have been broken up and ground to powder, and to do this requires at least two more years of war, and perhaps a period of Southern success and invasion of Northern territory, stimulating the North to begin fighting in earnest, which it has not even yet begun to do.
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7. Friday, April 22, 1864 --- Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan, commander of the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac, receives orders to ready his command for immediate marching orders.
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8. Friday, April 22, 1864 --- The Richmond Daily Dispatch publishes an editorial on the new Yankee Chief, Ulysses S. Grant, and hopefully dismisses him as a negligible commodity: Gen. Grant. –Among military men at the North Grant is not regarded as a genius. The new Fremont organ in New York, the New Nation, devotes a considerable space in every issue to a denunciation of the policy which has placed the whole military operations of the Federals in the control of a "second-rate General." One General Cluseret, an old French army officer, now in the Federal service, writes a series of articles to this paper on Grant. He shows that Grant blundered for months over an unnecessary canal, opposite Vicksburg, wasting thousands of lives thereby, and abandoning the project eventually; that the victory at Chattanooga was due to the previous disposition of the Federal troops by General Rosecrans, and that General Buell really commanded at Shiloh. General Cluseret pronounces Rosecrans the only eminent military genius in the Federal army. Just now Rosecrans is on the retired list for his Chickamauga disaster.
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9. Friday, April 22, 1864 --- The Richmond Daily Dispatch also publishes an editorial about the Confederate capture of Dr. Mary Walker, the first female licensed physician (and an Army assistant surgeon) in the United States: Dr. Mary E Walker, Assistant Surgeon in the Yankee army of Tennessee, captured a few days ago near Tunnel Hill, was received in this city last evening, and was committed to the female department of Castle Thunder. She was dressed in male attire, except a Gipsey hat, and wore a handsome black Talma. As she passed down the streets to the Castle in charge of a detective the odd figure she cut attracted a great crowd of negroes and boys, who beset her path to such a degree as much to obstruct her progress. She was very indignant at having been taken prisoner, protesting that at the time of her capture she was on neutral ground.
In answer to this, Dr. Walker herself writes to the Daily Dispatch herself, correcting their error vis a vis her dress: Castle Thunder, Richmond, April 21st, 1864. Editor of Richmond Dispatch:
Sir –Will you please correct the statement you made in this morning’s Dispatch, in regard to my being "dressed in male attire." As such is not the case simple justice demands a correction.
I am attired in what is usually called the "bloomer" or "reform dress, " which is similar to other ladies’, with the exception of its being shorter and more physiological than long dresses.
Yours, etc., etc., Mary E. Walker, M. D., 52d Ohio Vols, U. S. A.
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10. April 22, 1866 Cholera epidemic begins in New York when an infected passenger arrives in New York.
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A Monday, April 22, 1861: The Clarksburg (present-day West Virginia) Convention calls for an anti-secessionist convention to be held in May, 1861. The First Convention, would be held on May 13, 1861in Wheeling, West Virginia
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A+ Monday, April 22, 1861: Maryland Governor Thomas Holliday Hicks calls a session of the Maryland legislature to consider secession.
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B Tuesday April 22, 1862: On the night of April 16th at Grant's request, Porter took 12 vessels south past the Vicksburg batteries, losing i to Confederate fire. On the 17th, Grierson's Raid began. Led by Brig. Gen. Benjamin H. Grierson, Union cavalry left LaGrange, Tennessee for 16 days riding through central Mississippi to Baton Rouge, pulling away large units from Vicksburg's defense to pursue them. Porter, encouraged by light losses on his 1st try, ran a large supply flotilla past the Vicksburg batteries the night of the 22nd. Sherman's troops, many at work on a canal project at Duckport, abandoned this work, joined in a last action along the Yazoo River, northeast of Vicksburg, and on the 29-30th, made a demonstration against confederate works at Haynes' Bluff and Drumgould's Bluffs, diverting more of Pemberton's force Also on the 29th, as McClernand's and McPherson's troops gathered near Hard Times, Porter's fleet assailed Confederate batteries at Grand Gulf, 33 miles southwest of Vicksburg, testing the Grand Gulf area as a landing site for Union troops. Though Porter found the guns there too strong, he had succeeded in further diverting Pemberton in Vicksburg. - See more at: {[mycivilwar.com/campaigns/630401.html#sthash.LCnnHFC7.dpuf
B+ Wednesday, April 22, 1863: Grant's forces south of Vicksburg are resupplied by Porter's fleet, which suffered heavy losses when transports and barges steamed by Confederate batteries.
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Wednesday, April 22, 1863: Comprehensive "tax-in-kind" plan passed by the Confederate Senate. It required 10 percent of everything produced or grown be given to the Confederate government.
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C Friday, April 22, 1864: The motto "In God We Trust" approved for US coinage (Coinage Act of 1864)
November 13, 1861 Rev. M. R. Watkinson from Ridleyville, Pennsylvania writes Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase asking the motto "God, Liberty, Law" be added to all currency to "...place us openly under the Divine protection we have personally claimed"
November 20, 1861 Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase instructs James Pollock of U. S. Mint in Philadelphia that "the trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins."
December 9, 1863 Unhappy with proposals from the mint director, Salmon Chase recommends the words "In God We Trust" be added to the design of the new one, two and three-penny coins.
April 22, 1864 The motto "In God We Trust" approved for US coinage (Coinage Act of 1864)
"In God We Trust" Although Faith in God and Faith in the Union had been popular concepts throughout American history, they enjoyed a renewal of sorts during The Civil War. A Pennsylvania minister came up with the idea of adding a motto to coins minted by the United States and expressed his feelings in a letter to Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase on November 13, 1861, recommending the words "God, Liberty, Law" be added to all coins minted by the United States.
Chase liked the idea so much that within a week he told the director of the Philadelphia mint, "The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins. You will cause a device to be prepared without unnecessary delay with a motto expressing in the fewest and tersest words possible this national recognition." Mint director James Pollock decides to add the motto to the new one, two and three-penny designs then being worked on for future production. He proposed "Our God, Our Trust" and "God, Our Trust" to Chase. Unhappy with either recommendation, Chase personally came up with "In God We Trust."
Since both coins and mottos must be approved by Congress, the Coinage Act of 1864 was written approving the new motto and the new coins. The first coin actually minted to have the "In God We Trust" motto was the 1864 two-penny piece.
After the war the use of the phrase on public currency curtailed, but in the early 1900's it was prescribed by law that it must appear on all coins minted by the U. S. Government on which the motto had appeared. In 1955 Florida Congressman Charles Bennett proposed a bill requiring the motto appear on all paper currency as well, saying "At the base of our freedom is our faith in God and the desire of Americans to live by his will and his guidance. As long as this country trusts in God, it will prevail."
The bill was passed by both the House and the Senate unanimously and was signed into law by President Dwight Eisenhower on July 30, 1956.
Sources: U. S. Treasury; Congressional Record
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D Friday, April 22, 1864 --- Red River, Louisiana: Skirmishing throughout the day spells trouble for the retreating Federals in Banks’ Red River expeditionary force, as the army slogs on downriver towards Alexandria. Gen. Banks, the Federal commander, had planned on an orderly retreat from Grand Ecore and Natchitoches, but Gen. Taylor and his Rebels were hot on the pursuit. Banks orders a warehouse of supplies put to the torch, and the fire spreads to the rest of Grand Ecore. Taylor has been relieved of most of his infantry by Gen. Kirby-Smith, who was directing the pursuit of Gen. Steele’s Federals in Arkansas, and so Taylor is pursuing Banks with mostly two understrength division of cavalry. The smoke of the fleeing Yankees leads Taylor to believe he has an opportunity: he might be able to trap the Federals as they try to cross the Cane River crossings---a tall order, considering that Banks had nearly 30,000, and Taylor only had 5,500. With Gen. John Wharton’s cavalry nipped at his rear guard, and Gen. Hamilton Bee’s cavalry harassing his advance, Banks’ strung-out column makes poor time. At Monett’s Ferry on the Cane River, Bee’s Rebels dig in on the bluffs above the crossing.
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