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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. 865 67 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 231 31 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 175 45 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 153 9 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 139 19 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 122 6 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 91 7 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 89 3 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 88 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 55 5 Browse Search
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herman was removed from Kentucky and sent to report to General Halleck. General A. S. Johnston was now confronted by General Halleck in the West and by General Buell d, it was destroyed, lest it should fall to the enemy. The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston, by his son. The fleet of gunboats prepared by the United Statenumber unequal to the strain and labor of the defense. The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston, by his son. Noon was the time fixed for the attack. But Granturteen thousand five hundred and fifteen thousand men. The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston, by his son. The force of General Grant was not less than thirty tocattering slaughter and destruction through the fleet. The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston, by his son. Hoppin, in his Life of Commodore Foote, says: The en the only possible safe solution, [says the author of The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston] the Confederate commander tried neither. A fatal middle policy wa
enry and Donelson retreat from Bowling Green criticism on General A. S. Johnston change of plan necessary evacuation of Nashville Generalme for and in behalf of Tennessee to ask for the removal of General A. S. Johnston, and the assignment of a competent officer to the defense oollowing correspondence: letter from President Davis to General A. S. Johnston Richmond, March 12, 1862. my Dear General: The departuaiming against me will be without an argument. Your friend, A. S. Johnston. To this letter the following reply was made: Richmmissing—total, thirteen hundred fifty-one. The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston, by his son. The object of Van Dorn had been to effect a diversion in behalf of General Johnston. Though this failed, the enemy was badly crippled and soon fell back to Missouri, of which he stained possession. General Van Dorn was now ordered to join General Johnston by the quickest route. Yet only one of his regiments arrived
h of the battle of Shiloh, thus speaks of General Johnston's army: In a period of four weeks, frctory was ours. . . . The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston, p. 637. Brigadier General Jacld have been crushed. The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston, pp. 635, 636. To General Gilm, as stated by Colonel Geddes, soon after General Johnston's fall. General Beauregard reports as, which is thus described by his son: General Johnston had passed through the ordeal (the chargefrom one of these did its fatal work. As General Johnston, on horseback, sat there, knowing that heThe Governor told General Beauregard that General Johnston had been killed. Beauregard expressed re the issue of events. The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston, p. 616. Sidney Johnston fell been given sufficiently prove that, when General Johnston fell, the Confederate army was so fully vant's army being beaten, the next step of General Johnston's program should have followed—the defeat[17 more...]
force also occupied the night. In the morning the arrival of reenforcements to the enemy continued. On the morning of the 7th the enemy advanced about six o'clock, and opened a heavy fire of musketry and artillery, such as gave assurance that the reenforcements had arrived, to anticipate which the battle of the 6th had been fought. A series of combats ensued, in which the Confederates showed their usual valor; however, after the junction had been effected between Grant and Buell, which Johnston's movement was made to prevent, our force was unequal to resist the combined armies, and retreat was a necessity. The field return of the army of Mississippi before and after the battle of Shiloh was as follows: infantry and artillery effective before the battle, 35,953; cavalry, 4,382; total, 40,335. Infantry and artillery effective after the battle, 25,555; cavalry, 4,081; total, 29,636. Difference, 10,699. Casualties in battle: killed, 1,728; wounded, 8,012; missing, 959. The ef
Chapter 20: Advance of General McClellan toward Centreville; his report our forces ordered to the Peninsula situation at Yorktown siege by General McClellan General Johnston assigned to command; his recommendation attack on General Magruder at Yorktown movements of McClellan the Virginia General Johnston Retires delay at Norfolk before Williamsburg remark of Hancock retreat up the Peninsula sub-terra shells used evacuation of Norfolk its occupation by the enemy. In A previous chapter the retreat of our army from Centreville has been described, and reference has been made to the anticipation of the commanding general, J. E. Johnston, that the enemy would soon advance to attack that position. Since the close of the war we have gained information not at that time to us attainable, which shows that, as early as January 31, 1862, the commanding general of the enemy's forces presented to his President an argument against that line of operations, setting forth
rning to General Shoup's line of redoubts, Johnston's Narrative, p. 346. constructed on the high ust received in reply to his telegram to General Johnston, requesting positive information as to ther came to my house, sent, as he said, by General Johnston, Senator Wigfall, of Texas, and Governor rmination on my part to go at once to see General Johnston, and place myself at his service. I reacd he prevent Sherman from ditching round his (Johnston's) flank and compelling his retreat. The o compel Sherman either to give battle on his (Johnston's) terms or retreat. In either case, he thould give the order. He explained that he (General Johnston) had had a consultation with Senator Wigf he would act promptly. I then said to General Johnston: How long can you hold Sherman north of tesident said, How long did you understand General Johnston to say he could hold Sherman north of the. He asked me to reduce my interview with General Johnston to writing, for the use of the Cabinet, a[22 more...]
48, 52, 53, 323, 324, 325, 326, 345, 353, 358, 361, 364, 534, 536, 539, 549. Description of A. S. Johnston's army, 43-44. Extract from monograph on battle of Shiloh, 47-48. Extract from official rer to Lincoln concerning treatment of prisoners of captured ships, 9-10. Correspondence with A. S. Johnston concerning Tennessee campaign, 33. Telegram to A. S. Johnston concerning battle of Shiloh, A. S. Johnston concerning battle of Shiloh, 47. Telegram transferring Bragg to Jackson, Miss., 60. Conference with generals concerning abandonment of Magruder's defense, 70. Telegram to J. E. Johnston concerning evacuation of Norfolk, 74. P. Reverdv, 417. Letter from Hampton concerning burning of Columbia, S. C., 532. Johnston, Gen., Albert Sidney, 15, 16, 19, 29. 30, 31-32, 37-39, 40, 469. Extract from letter to Confederate Secrenel William Preston, 46, 589. Extract from letter of Gen. Gilmer, 51-52. Description of Gen. A. S. Johnston's death, 53-54. -Sherman convention, 587-88, 591, 592. Joinville, Prince de, 73, 87.