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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 6 (search)
r Harpeth Shoals destroyed a great quantity of provisions in wagons, ready for transportation to Nashville. While inspecting the defenses of Mobile on the 22d of January, I received a telegram from the President, directing me to proceed, with the least delay, to the headquarters of General Bragg's army, and informing me that aennessee, I left Chattanooga for Jackson, on the 9th, and at Mobile, when continuing on the 12th the inspection interrupted by the President's telegram on the 22d of January, I received the following dispatch from the Secretary of War, dated March 9th: Order General Bragg to report to the War Department here, for conference; assumng my personal attention to military affairs in Mississippi The reader's attention is called to this fact, because I have been accused of neglecting Mississippi, to give my time to Tennessee. at any time since the 22d of January. On the contrary, those orders had required my presence in Tennessee during the whole of that period
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
s general order has never been changed nor modified so as to affect your command in a single particular, nor has your control over it been interfered with. I have, as commander-in-chief, given you some orders, which will be hereafter noticed, not one of them, however, indicating in any manner that the general control confided to you was restricted or impaired. V. You exercised this command by visiting in person the armies at Murfreesboroa, Vicksburg, Mobile, and elsewhere; and on the 22d January I wrote you, directing that you should repair in person to the army at Tullahoma, on account of a reported want of harmony and confidence between General Bragg and his officers and troops. This letter closed with the following passage: As that army is part of your command, no order will be necessary to give you authority there, as, whether present or absent, you have a right to direct its operations, and do whatever else belongs to the general commanding. VI. Language cannot be plai
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Letters. (search)
d discharges at Atlanta — from General Bragg's troops alone, sixty-six discharges, fourteen hundred and eighty-one furloughs in three months preceding January 14th-and respectfully repeat my recommendation that Article 4, General Orders No. 72, be revolved because it is draining the army. J. E. Johnston, General. Tullahoma, February 3, 1863. Mr. President: Your telegram ordering me to General Bragg's headquarters was received in Mobile, when I was on my way to them. Your letter of January 22d reached me here on the 30th. I have spoken to General Bragg, Lieutenant-Generals Polk and Hardee, and Governor Harris, on the subject of your letter . . . I respectfully suggest that, should it then appear to you necessary to remove General Bragg, no one in this army, or engaged in this investigation, ought to be his successor. Most respectfully, Your obedient servant, J. E. Johnston, General. Tullahoma, February 12, 1863. Major-General Rosecrans,United States Army. General: I h