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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 4 (search)
f property must be sacrificed in the contemplated movement. .... February 28th: I regret to be unable to make a favorable report of the progress of our preparations to execute your plan. .... As I remarked to you orally, In the consultation, February 20th. the measure must be attended with great sacrifice of property, and perhaps much suffering .... March 3d: Your orders for moving cannot be executed now, on account of the condition of roads and streams ... It is evident that a large quantity of it (public property) must be sacrificed.... In conversation with you, February 20th. and before the cabinet, I did not exaggerate the difficulties of marching in that region. The sufferings and sickness that would be produced can hardly be exaggerated. These passages, written after the falling back of the army had been authorized in the consultation, indicate a strong disposition on my part to postpone it, on account of the difficulties and hardships of marching at that season. They p
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 14 (search)
Cole, chief commissary. Fifteen days were devoted by the army to the removal of the public property that had been recklessly collected at Manassas. It would have been very dangerous to the public safety to employ it longer in that way; for, on the eve of a formidable invasion, it was of great importance that it should be so placed as to be able to unite promptly with other available forces, to repel this invasion. I indicated no intention to fall back before the consultation on the 20th of February. The condition of the country made military operations on a large scale impossible, so that the most timid could have imagined no cause for hasty retreat. And in the consultation later, when the country was somewhat less impracticable, I opposed See fifth paragraph, page 106. any movement on account of the difficulty, which indicates that I could not have intended one when the difficulties would have been much greater. I was not ignorant of the country. I had studied it carefull