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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.46 (search)
0,000 of whom were available for combat. General Johnston's aggregate was 60,000 men, opposed to abxplicit, and in places they indicate that Colonel Johnston greatly overestimates the Union strength.nal dispatch, the words italicised are in General Johnston's own handwriting. The words, the left, atal loss of time. if it be asked why General Johnston accepted and issued an order of march andobviously too late to apply a remedy. General Johnston did not undervalue the importance of detas army face to face with the enemy, which General Johnston had to take on trust,--he knew that the cel to the enemy's front. Jordan tells us General Johnston did not see these orders as published unt Gilmer took part, which added greatly to General Johnston's responsibilities, and the heavy burden ion ensued between him and Polk, in which General Johnston took little part, but closed it with the the hour, if you please, gentlemen, said General Johnston. It was fourteen minutes past 5. they im[34 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.47 (search)
th of February of ten thousand men, after General Johnston had decided that the immediate abandonmens,--a course specially requested of me by General Johnston through his adjutant-general, in the even no doubt as to its objective. But as General Johnston's projected line of retrograde upon Steveat is twin-born with the fable concerning General Johnston and the map upon which in January, 1862, with one-fourth of the entire force under General Johnston's command at the time, as also obtain the features of the situation, I again urged General Johnston to hurry his forces forward. On the 2al factor in the campaign, to my surprise General Johnston, with much emotion, informed me that it wth. The order of organization, signed by General Johnston, was published on the 29th of March. Basconflict ensued in that quarter, in which General Johnston was present, after Chalmers had carried a, at 2:30 P. M., or about the moment that General Johnston was bleeding to death in the covert of a [24 more...]