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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 19: (search)
oint. The evacuation of Hilton Head, on the southwestern extremity of Beaufort Island, followed the capture of Port Royal. This exposed Savannah, only about twentyfive miles distant, to an attack from that direction. At the same time, the Federals having command of Helena Bay, Charleston was liable to be assailed from North Edisto or Stono Inlet, and the railroad could have been reached without opposition by the route from Port Royal to Pocotaligo. Such was the state of affairs when General Lee reached Charleston, about December 1, 1861, to assume the command of the Department of North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. His vigorous mind at once comprehended the situation, and, with his accustomed energy, he met the difficulties that presented themselves. Directing fortifications to be constructed on the Stono and the Edisto and the Combahee, he fixed his headquarters at Coosawhatchee, the point most threatened, and directed defenses to be erected opposite Hilton Head, and on the
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 20: (search)
d the abandonment of the Peninsula, urging that we take a defensive position nearer to Richmond. The question was postponed, and an appointment made for its discussion, to which I proposed to invite the Secretary of War, General Randolph, and General Lee, then stationed in Richmond and in general charge of army operations. General Johnston asked that he might invite General Longstreet and General G. W. Smith to be present, to which I assented. At this meeting General Johnston announced hisive line there should possibly be maintained. To this plan the Secretary of War objected, because the navy yard at Norfolk offered our best if not our only opportunity to construct in any short time gunboats for coastwise and harbor defense. General Lee, always bold in his views and unusually sagacious in penetrating the designs of the enemy, insisted that the Peninsula offered great advantages to a smaller force in resisting a numerically superior assailant, and, in the comprehensive view wh
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 22: (search)
ook to hold fortified towns, I had written to him that he knew the defense of Richmond must be made at a distance from it. Seeing no preparation to keep the enemy at a distance, and kept in ignorance of any plan for such purpose, I sent for General R. E. Lee, then at Richmond, in general charge of army operations, and told him why and how I was dissatisfied with the condition of affairs. He asked me what I thought it was proper to do. Recurring to a conversation held about the time we had toommand being in front, and then engaged with the enemy on the field of the previous day's combat. The operations of that day were neither extensive nor important, save in the collection of the arms acquired in the previous day's battle. General R. E. Lee was now in immediate command, and thenceforward directed the movements of the army in front of Richmond. Laborious and exact in details as he was vigilant and comprehensive in grand strategy, a power with which the public had not credited
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 23: (search)
n riding from the field of battle with General Robert E. Lee on the previous day, I informed him thnt of Richmond, but without entrenchments. General Lee immediately commenced the construction of awe should be able to resist. The day after General Lee assumed command, I was riding out to the ary disappointment at hearing such views, and General Lee remarked that he had, before I came in, saickson's forces to make a junction with those of Lee, a strong division under General Whiting was deand efficiency, to execute the orders which General Lee had sent to him. As evidence of the daring and unfaltering fortitude of General Lee, I will here recite an impressive conversation which ocis old esprit de corps manifested itself in General Lee's first response, that he did not know engi coming with a brigade from Georgia to join General Lee, was directed to change his line of march aart received confidential instructions from General Lee, the execution of which is so interwoven wi[1 more...]
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 24: (search)
ove by the Darbytown and Long Bridge roads. General Lee, having sent his engineer, Captain Meade, trroneous answers of the guides, that caused General Lee first to post Holmes and Wise, when they ca taking neither of the roads pointed out to General Lee, he retreated by the shorter and better rou personal and hazardous reconnaissance that General Lee assigned General Holmes to his last positiot might have got off on the transports. General Lee was not a man of hesitation, and they have s completely frustrated. Reports of Generals Robert E. Lee, Pendleton, A. P. Hill, Huger, Alexand and Major H. W. Taylor, in his Four Years with Lee, have been drawn upon for the foregoing. M by Major Walter H. Taylor, of the staff of General Lee, who supervised for several years the prepaof the strength of the army commanded by General R. E. Lee on July 20, 1862 Department of Northes Marshall, secretary and aidede-camp to General R. E. Lee, before the Virginia Division of the Arm[1 more...]
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 34: (search)
Chapter 34: Address to the army of eastern Virginia by the President army of General Pope position of Mc-Clellan advance of General Jackson atrocious order of General Pope letter of McClellan on the conduct of the war letter of the President to General Lee battle of Cedar Run results of the engagement Reenforcements to >the enemy second battle of Manassas capture of Manassas Junction captured stores the old battlefield advance of General Longstreet attack on him attack on General Jackson darkness of the night battle at Ox Hill losses of the enemy. This defect of McClellan's army led me to issue the following address: Richmond, July 5, 1862. To the Army of Eastern Virginia. soldiers: I congratulate you on the series of brilliant victories which, under the favor of Divine Providence, you have lately won, and, as the President of the Confederate States, do heartily tender to you the thanks of the country, whose just cause you have so skillfull
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 35: (search)
Sharpsburg until some time after the engagement of the 17th began. At this time the letter from which the following extract is made was addressed by me to General R. E. Lee, commanding our forces in Maryland: Sir: It is deemed proper that you should, in accordance with established usage, announce, by proclamation, to the peo and while the Southern people will rejoice to welcome you to your natural position among them, they will only welcome you when you come of your own free will. R. E. Lee, General commanding. The commands of Longstreet and D. H. Hill, on their arrival at Sharpsburg, were placed in position along the range of hills between the they met the large army of the enemy, fully supplied and equipped, and the result reflected the highest credit on the officers and men engaged. Report of General R. E. Lee. On the 18th our forces occupied the position of the preceding day, except in the center, where our line was drawn in about two hundred yards. Our ranks
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 39: (search)
able amount of stores. On the 24th Van Dorn renewed in urgent terms his request for Price to come with all his forces to unite with him and make an attack upon Corinth. On the same day Price received a letter from General Ord, informing him that Lee's army had been destroyed at Antietam; that, therefore, the rebellion must soon terminate, and that, in order to spare the further effusion of blood, he gave him this opportunity to lay down his arms. Price replied, correcting the rumor about LeeLee's army, thanked Ord for his kind feeling, and promised to lay down his arms whenever Mr. Lincoln should acknowledge the independence of the Southern Confederacy, and not sooner. On that night General Price held a council of war, at which it was agreed on the next morning to fall back and make a junction with Van Dorn, it being now satisfactorily shown that the enemy was holding the line on our left instead of moving to reenforce Buell. The cavalry pickets had reported that a heavy force was
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 40: (search)
us a movement on the rear of the former with our force. General Lee, with commendable zeal for the public welfare and characooga, our army, on September 7th and 8th, took position from Lee and Gordon's Mill to Lafayette, on the road leading south frne near McLemore's Cove, which was gradually extended toward Lee and Gordon's Mills. It was now determined to turn upon the nd Walker's corps were moved immediately in the direction of Lee and Gordon's Mills, Lieutenant General Polk commanding. He r's Bridge, Buckner's next, near Tedford Ford, Polk opposite Lee and Gordon's Mills, and Hill on the extreme left. Orders wes left rested on the bank of the stream about one mile below Lee and Gordon's Mills; on his right came Hood with his own and ngstreet moved east into Virginia, and ultimately joined General Lee. He had left the army of General Lee, and moved to the General Lee, and moved to the west with his force, on the condition that he should return when summoned. This summons had been sent to him. The loss of th
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 41: (search)
n political if not military circles was regarded as the objective point of the war. The consolidated report of the Army of the Potomac, then under the command of Major General Hooker, states the force present on May 10, 1863, to be 136,704. General Lee's forces had been reorganized into three army corps, designated the First, Second, and Third Corps. In the order named, they were commanded by Lieutenant Generals Longstreet, Ewell, and A. P. Hill. The zeal of our people in the defense of to receive an attack whenever he was disposed to make it. Meade declared, it is related, that he could carry the position with a loss of thirty thousand men; but, as that idea was frightful, there seemed nothing to do but retreat. Life of General R. E. Lee, by J. E. Cooke. Lee had inaugurated that system of breastworks which did him good service in his long campaign with General Grant. When the troops were halted in a wood, the men felled the large trees, heavy logs were dragged without loss
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