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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 16: Gettysburg: the first day (search)
ton, with scarcely 24,000 men, was looking on and begging vainly for reenforcements. At Murfreesboro, Tenn., Bragg, with about 45,000 Confederates, confronted Rosecrans with about 84,000. Neither felt strong enough for the aggressive, and the whole spring and summer passed idly. At Knoxville were about 5000 Confederates under ynchburg and Knoxville. Johnston's 25,000 from Jackson, and Buckner's 5000 from Knoxville, could have met them. With these accessions, and with Lee in command, Rosecrans might have been defeated, and an advance made into Ky., threatening Louisville and Cincinnati. If anything could have caused Grant's recall from Vicksburg, it wto find our way back across the Potomac. Longstreet Manassas to Appomattox, p. 327. tells of his having suggested to Secretary Seddon such a campaign against Rosecrans, and he also suggested it to Lee on his arrival at Fredericksburg. Mr. Seddon thought Grant could not be drawn from Vicksburg even by a Confederate advance upon
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 19: battle of Chickamauga (search)
ngagement of the 19th. battle of the 20th. Rosecrans's order to Wood. Longstreet's advance. thegstreet should go to reenforce Bragg against Rosecrans, but with only Hood's and Mc-Laws's divisionective total（66,326) is largely greater than Rosecrans (58,222), it is due to Bragg's excess in cavo the contrary until Sept. 15. Before that, Rosecrans had discovered the proximity of Bragg's armyst have waited longer. Already he had given Rosecrans just the time needed to concentrate his entie and Reynolds's right was exposed. On this Rosecrans dictated a message to Wood:– The generalReynolds had blundered in his complaint, and Rosecrans had blundered in acting on it without refereke. Of prisoners, Bragg reports 8000, while Rosecrans admits but 4750. No accurate returns were m There is no reason to doubt the accuracy of Rosecrans's report. It gives, also, some interesting ac. These had been hurried out to reenforce Rosecrans, when the Federals realized that Longstreet [25 more...]<