Named Entity Results, Jos E. Johnston

Doc. 39-Gen. Jos E. Johnston's address. The following is a copy of Gen. Johnston's address to the rebel army of the Potomac: headquarters, Department of Northern Virginia, February 4, 1862. soldiers: Your country again calls you to the defence of the noblest of human causes. To the indomitable courage already exhibited on the battle-field, you have added the rarer virtues of high endurance, cheerful obedience, and self-sacrifice. Accustomed to the comforts and luxuries of home, Gen. Johnston's address to the rebel army of the Potomac: headquarters, Department of Northern Virginia, February 4, 1862. soldiers: Your country again calls you to the defence of the noblest of human causes. To the indomitable courage already exhibited on the battle-field, you have added the rarer virtues of high endurance, cheerful obedience, and self-sacrifice. Accustomed to the comforts and luxuries of home, you have met and borne the privations of camplife, the exactions of military discipline, and the rigors of a winter campaign. The rich results of your courage, patriotism and unfaltering virtue, are before you. Entrusted with the defence of this important frontier, you have driven back the immense army which the enemy had sent to invade our country, and to establish his dominion over our people by the wide-spread havoc of a war inaugurated without a shadow of constitutional right, and prosecut

October, 1861. The forces of which General Johnston is the Commander-in-Chief, have been reor the last under the command of Gen.Holmes, Gen. Johnston of course remains Commander in Chief of thoops belong, as far as practicable. Generals Johnston and Beauregard have long felt the necessDowell, urgently asking for a junction of General Johnston's forces with his own, and continued to mstate that his plan of battle assigned to General Johnston an attack on the enemy on the left at or is movement was superintended in person by Gen. Johnston, Gen. Beauregard remaining to direct the m He acknowledges the great generosity of General Johnston, in fully according to him (Gen. B.) the e, and in the effective cooperation which General Johnston so chivalrously extended to him on that ed on 21st, to 27,000, which includes 6,200 of Johnston's army, and 1,700 brought up by General Holmeengthy, and is accompanied by another from Gen. Johnston, giving an account of the movements of his[1 more...]

Rumored Appointments. It was extensively reported yesterday and believed in some quarters, that the Hon. John C. Breckinridge had received the appointment of Secretary of War. We are not prepared to vouch for the accuracy of the report, for no official announcement has yet been made; but if there is no legal obstacle arising out of the fact that Mr. Breckinridge is a citizen of a State not yet a member of the Confederacy, his appointment to the high and responsible position would meet with universal approval. It was also currently reported last evening that the President had appointed Gen. Jos E. Johnston to the command of the entire Confederate forces in the Northern department of Virginia. This is slow rumor, for Gen. J. has held that position for some time past.

a letter from a staff officer of the Army of the Potomac: My note has been detained, and in the meantime I have seen as article in the Mercury of the 24th of September, named, "Justice to our Generals on the Potomac." Gen. Beauregard called my attention to it, and authorized me to deny unequivocally the assertion that "he had applied to President Davis for leave to advance on the enemy and that it had been refused." I have the means of knowing, and have good reason to believe that Gens. Johnston, Beauregard, and Smith, are in full accord with the President (who is now here,) as to the policy of the existing operations of the army. A patriotic man The Macon Telegraph, of Monday last, says: We were introduced yesterday to Col. John Smith, of Wilkinson, who offers, in his own example, a bright illustration of patriotic devotion to the country. He is a planter of considerable wealth--sixty years of age.--stalwart in frame, and with a body still sound and vigorous.

had been reported in one of the daily papers as having commended the extraordinary skill of Gen. Bragg, without qualification — He had said that he never doubted Gen. Bragg's skill as a disciplinarian, but he did doubt his capacity to command a large army. He voted for the resolution of thanks because he knew that the army and the officers generally well deserved this evidence of our respect and gratitude, and he voted to include Gen. Bragg solely upon the official recommendation of Gen. Jos E. Johnston. Mr. Chrisman, of Ky., also made a personal explanation. He wished it known, especially by the Kentuckians in the Army of Tennessee that the course of Gen. Bragg in the Tennessee and Kentucky campaigns met with his cordial approval. Mr. Machen, of Ky., said he did not vote upon the engrossment of the resolutions, and now the privilege of recording his vote against them Objection was made. Mr. Farrow, of S. C. moved that when the House adjourn to-day it adjourn to meet