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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 1,542 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 328 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 122 0 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 63 1 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 60 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 60 0 Browse Search
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 50 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 38 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 36 0 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 36 0 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The gun-boats at Belmont and Fort Henry. (search)
ng Columbus had been accomplished, for on the 20th he wrote General McClellan: Columbus cannot. be taken without an immense siege-train and a terrible loss of life. I have thoroughly studied its defenses — they are very strong; but it can be turned, paralyzed, and forced to surrender. In accordance with the idea suggested in this dispatch, the Federal movement upon Forts Henry and Donelson was decided upon. In the latter part of January General Beauregard was ordered to report to General Johnston for assignment to duty at Columbus. He arrived at Jackson, Tennessee, about the middle of February, but, being too ill to proceed to Columbus, he requested General Polk to visit him at Jackson. The fall of Forts Henry and Donelson, and the declared purpose of the Federals to push their forces up the Tennessee River, made the further occupation of Columbus a serious question. General Beauregard had sent his chief of staff, Colonel Jordan, and his engineer officer, Captain Harris, up t
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.46 (search)
greatly prostrated and suffering from severe sickness, I firmly believe his order would have been to advance, not to retire. And this in spite of his theory of his plan of battle, which he sums up as follows, and which is so different from General Johnston's: By a rapid and vigorous attack on General Grant, it was expected he would be beaten back into his transports and the river, or captured in time to enable us to profit by the victory, and remove to the rear all the stores and munitions thathe campaign. Why, then, did General Beauregard stop short in his career? Sunday evening it was not a question of retaining, but of gaining, Pittsburg Landing. Complete victory was in his grasp, and he threw it away. General Gibson says: General Johnston's death was a tremendous catastrophe. There are no words adequate to express my own conception of the immensity of the loss to our country. Sometimes the hopes of millions of people depend upon one head and one arm. The West perished with
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.47 (search)
a was abandoned at the earnest request of General Johnston. However, after an inspection of the worturned on their right, and I so stated to General Johnston. His reply was, that in the event of a sour then available forces upon Donelson. General Johnston, however, asserting that Fort Donelson waears in the original letter as it reached General Johnston, did not refer and could not possibly havated text, as given both by Mr. Davis and Colonel Johnston, is in these words: Corinth, April 3d, 1egram as containing the plan of battle as General Johnston had originally devised, but not as he had but as it was fought up to the moment of General Johnston's death.-G. T. B. and next to Hardee's teval of the present lost opportunity. General Johnston listened heedfully to what I said, but anfurther conference was held that night by General Johnston with myself, or with the reserve or corpve notice that Hardee's line was engaged, General Johnston said that he should go. to the front, lea[5 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Notes of a Confederate staff-officer at Shiloh. (search)
Jordan had better carry this in person to General Johnston and explain the military situation.-G. T.wn up in expectation of our approach. General Johnston listened attentively to what General Beaue or other convenience, outstretched upon General Johnston's blankets, which were spread at the footentle wooded slope toward Shiloh Chapel, Generals Johnston and Beauregard, with the general staff anounced that Hardee's corps was engaged. General Johnston now informed General Beauregard that he wbrother-in-law as well as aide-de-camp of General Johnston--the hour, he replied, from his watch, tw him, I said, General Breckinridge, it is General Johnston's order that you advance and turn and takthe left, and as it so happened, did find General Johnston, but already unconscious, if not dead. General Johnston had received his death-wound near the very troops I had found standing at orderedris of Tennessee, who, after the death of General Johnston, had joined the staff of Beauregard in ac[22 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Surprise and withdrawal at Shiloh. (search)
time of the battle of Shiloh I was on General Bragg's staff as his chief engineer, with the rank of captain. On the night of April 5th I accompanied him to General Johnston's headquarters, where the last council of war was held. I was not present at the meeting of the generals, but with a number of other staff-officers remaineds thought about 11 o'clock, I came to General A. S. Johnston and his staff standing on the brow of a hill watching the conflict in their front. I rode up to General Johnston, saluted him, and said I wished to make a report of the state of affairs on our extreme right. He said he had received that report and a sketch from Captainim to drive the enemy he may find in his front into the river. He needs no further orders. The words are, as near as I can remember them, exactly the ones General Johnston used. I obeyed the order given, met General Breckinridge, conducted him to the place where I had left my cavalry, but found both them and the Federal divisi
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The Shiloh battle-order and the withdrawal Sunday . (search)
er, and desired me to inform the general at dawn that General Johnston had agreed to his recommendation to move offensively was to frame, and did frame and issue in the name of General Johnston. And that is the order which Colonel Johnston erroneColonel Johnston erroneously alleges upon the posthumous authority of General Bragg to differ essentially from the plan settled upon by General JohGeneral Johnston for the battle. This allegation I know to be unfounded, as the order as issued varies in no wise from the notes dicta plan explained by General Beauregard and accepted by General Johnston at the quarters of the former. Being limited as teir general conduct of the battle before the death of General Johnston as he was after that incident. I shall confine myselr General Beauregard became cognizant of the death of General Johnston, he dispatched me to the front with orders that led td come toppling down among the men. Possibly, had Colonel Johnston been present on the field at that last hour of the ba