Template:On this day/August 22

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

August 22:

• 1861 – Valentine Wood Southall, a prominent lawyer and politician, died in Charlottesville at about 68 years old. He was the grandnephew of Patrick Henry and served as a delegate to the 1861 Virginia secession convention.