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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
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
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones)	36	0	Browse	Search
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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., Chapter 6: as Texan soldier. (search)

ll known that astonishment was expressed that Johnston did not choose rapiers, with which he would h the report set afloat at the time: General Johnston arrived a few days after his appointment rt in the use of, these weapons, and that General Johnston had never handled one in his life. But tecially injurious to men so adventurous. General Johnston believed that safety lay in boldness, and in vain. The small force of this arm at General Johnston's disposal was kept actively employed wat by the Administration certainly impaired General Johnston's confidence in its wisdom and energy. Trs shown the same reserve in criticism of General Johnston that he exhibited toward them. After e widow of Senator Johnston. He wrote to General Johnston, August 13th, kindly urging him to visit caballado. Take care of it. Yes, replied General Johnston, looking at him steadily, I see your cabacence of childhood. During the spring General Johnston was much urged to allow himself to be nom[66 more...]

the Cherokee question was met. report of General Johnston, Secretary of War. troops sent forward, nvenience than the healing of the wound. General Johnston also related the following: In the main cing for his horse. My young friend, said General Johnston, calmly, you are going the wrong way. Thionly inhabited frontier, 400 miles away. General Johnston wrote, May 9, 1839, to a friend in Kentucsistant Secretary of War, writing to General Johnston, says: Colonel Karnes gives a deplorable accoelect the site of the capital, writing to General Johnston from the frontier, March 12, 1839, says: a treaty. Karnes informed them, by General Johnston's orders, that no further treaty would be madved from notes of conversations held with General Johnston twenty years ago, and taken down at the time. General Johnston had resigned before the catastrophe ; but there was no caution which could haomanches herein narrated took place after General Johnston's resignation, their success was the dire[21 more...]

ocket Veto. massacre of Dawson's force. General Johnston urged to become a candidate for the presitellectual habits. The four years that General Johnston had given to the public service of Texas ithout anxiety as to future necessities. General Johnston was not a rare example of these traits. ressive policy of the Administration, and General Johnston saw no hope of such a concentration of re1st of September. There is no doubt that General Johnston would have been chosen almost by acclamat and morally. Miss Griffin was cousin to General Johnston's first wife, and the niece and ward of Mcock. It may be remembered that, when General Johnston retired from the War Office, it was his iested the arrangement more with a view to General Johnston's advantage than his own, which probably was to some extent true. General Johnston, with a sense of obligation perhaps too scrupulous, at onts in Texas yield their claims to yours. General Johnston himself took no part in this application;[19 more...]

rson Davis explaining and describing it. General Johnston's extraordinary peril. Rallies the Ohio capitulation of Monterey, and estimate of General Johnston's character. anecdote by General Johnstoarn that General Houston is unfriendly to General Johnston, as I am disposed to believe if he exerciGovernor Henderson wrote, May 8th, urging General Johnston to meet him at Point Isabel, and again, td wife. Leonard Groce, for many years General Johnston's friend, knowing his military ardor, pror with their houses, dress, and manners. General Johnston felt gratification that, while a good deaoldiers called upon General Taylor during General Johnston's absence. The soldiers found Old rough themselves of these circumstances; and on General Johnston's arrival pleaded General Taylor's promisich voted as a unit 77 votes to disband. General Johnston sometimes told, as an illustration of hiswon distinction at Monterey. Thus was General Johnston again compelled to see the labor of month[13 more...]

at Brigham Young belonged to the latter. General Johnston then said to him: I have nothing wh friends and allies at Washington. While General Johnston lay hemmed in by the avalanches of the RoThough unsuccessful in his diplomacy with General Johnston, the Prophet accomplished more through hio construe it as an intentional insult by Colonel Johnston to his guest, and hence to himself, and p the settlement of troubles with Brigham, General Johnston was fully consulted, and the decisions were generally founded on his counsel. General Johnston,. feeling that any check or delay to the army United States Commissioners to Utah. General Johnston's proclamation to the people of Utah. e one else to do its summer fighting. General Johnston, on the 8th of July, having placed the are the following mention of the conduct of General Johnston, after discussing the causes that led to endered easy of accomplishment except for General Johnston's efforts. It is not to be supposed, [35 more...]

at Camp Floyd, three duties devolved upon General Johnston: first, to secure the troops under his co and pillage, and of insinuations against General Johnston himself. The Deseret News also made simithe spring of 1859 an issue arose between General Johnston and Governor Cumming, in which the latterntinued observation of their system, gave General Johnston no better opinion of them than he had helncy, and be ready for any emergency. Yet General Johnston availed himself of every occasion to dispo you and each one of my family. When General Johnston relinquished his command in Utah, it was surrender at Appomattox Court-House, was General Johnston's departure from the army of Utah. As hef November, the adjutant-general informed General Johnston that the secretary had given orders to thion would probably occur. In this event, General Johnston took the view that he could only surrendened to the Department of the Pacific. General Johnston, before leaving for California, manumitte[47 more...]

s, to effect the schism of West Virginia, and, by a proceeding totally unconstitutional and revolutionary, to establish it as a State. In East Tennessee, a sedition was organized by Andrew Johnson, T. A. R. Nelson, and William G. Brownlow, which proved a constant source of weakness and danger to the Confederacy. Passing by, for the present, transactions in Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, brief mention will suffice, in this connection, of the military events which happened before General Johnston's arrival at Richmond. The reduction of Fort Sumter and President Lincoln's call for 75,000 men for the irrepressible conflict were met with tumultuous fervor at the North as the signal for war. The North gave its men and money without stint to the work of putting down the rebellion. Three months time was set apart for the work, and troops were hurried to Washington, ostensibly to protect the capital, but, in fact, as the advance-guard of the army of invasion. As the defense of th

Chapter 17: California. General Johnston's ideas of Government. the right of resistance.ce to citizens. writer's recollections. General Johnston's correspondence. General Johnston hadGeneral Johnston had never been a politician or party-man. He had cast but one vote in his life, and that had been for ingle word, it would be-conservative. General Johnston had been so long the stanch soldier of th His adjutant-general (Major Mackall) and Mrs. Johnston were aware of the fact, which he also comm, in order to set up a Pacific republic. General Johnston replied that he hoped they were mistaken,ing his long intimacy, asked him to sound General Johnston as to the feasibility of a Pacific republme in dispatching General Sumner to supersede Johnston, and save the State to the Union. General SuWashington, May 10, 1861. dear Porter: General Johnston has resigned. He did so, April 9, 1861! ar that time. He left Washington April 1st. Johnston asked that a successor might be sent to relie[8 more...]

e question of rank was never mentioned in his conversations with General A. S, Johnston. It is not probable that he ever heard of this discussion: he certainly had n only to disclaim for him all connection with it. The command to which General Johnston was called thus embraced all the northern frontier west of the Alleghaniestucky and Missouri is necessary, in order to comprehend the campaign which General Johnston conducted against the powerful armies collected by the United States Gover and its results were very important in determining the exact character of General Johnston's military operations; but the limits of this biography do not permit its isabled his command, and nothing of importance was accomplished. Thus, General Johnston had hardly assumed command when he found the Federal armies in possession of mark in the old army. He was the junior major of the Second Cavalry, General Johnston's regiment; and, having decided to adhere to the Federal cause in the civi

military situation in Kentucky. General Johnston's arrival in Nashville. personal reminiscences, the defense of Tennessee. General Johnston's resources and theory. letter to President Davston's staff. The command intrusted to General Johnston was imperial in extent, his discretion ascess, will be detailed as they arise. General Johnston proceeded to Nashville, stopping in Knoxvberland Gap. On the 14th of September General Johnston reached Nashville. He had been looked fo the Federals seemed imminent. Although General Johnston had no force able to cope with that in hids of his intended movement were given by General Johnston to the President, the day before it was mnto Southwest Virginia, also committed to General Johnston's care, were intrusted to about three hun commission of brigadier-general; but, at General Johnston's request, he now threw himself into the t of his own honesty or intelligence. General Johnston's instructions to him were as follows: [6 more...]

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