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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 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 17, 1862., [Electronic resource] 1 1 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 22: efforts to get arms and troops. (search)
lament that we are still so straitened for arms. As soon as we can get any you shall have your full share. I shall order four thirty-two pounders at once to be sent to you, for the defense of your works at Bowling Green, or such other point as you may desire to fortify with heavy guns. Rely on the active cooperation of this department to the full extent of its disposable moans. Your obedient servant, J. P. Benjamin, Acting Secretary of War. General A. S. Johnston, bowling Green, Kentucky. General Johnston's reply was as follows: In making the call for troops, I asked from the Governors of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas, respectively, as follows: Tennessee, 30,000; Mississippi, 10,000; Arkansas, 10,000-confining my call strictly to those States. The call upon Mississippi was small compared with that on Tennessee, as only a part of that State is within the limits of my department. I had no means of ascertaining the relative proportion of troops furnis
The Daily Dispatch: January 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 19 (search)
New Brunswick, to supply British subjects there, but lost her way--in a hora! Late information enables us to inform our readers that she is now safely moored in a Confederate port. a Florida port — so our hearts may also say "all's well." Escape of a Confederate criminal from Kentucky into Indiana--his statement. The Evansville (Ind.) Journal, publishes the following statement obtained from a man named Andrew W. Johnson, a deserter from the Confederate army at Bowling. Green, Kentucky: Mr. Johnson joined the rebel army at Paducah, spent the summer at Camp Boon, and came into Bowling Green with the advanced guard of the rebel army in August last. He was unfortunate enough to kill a fellow-soldier in a melee and was threatened with punishment by the author fillies. He was placed in the military jail at Bowling Green and made to wait upon the Federal prisoners confined there. Johnson determined to escape if possible, and take with him a number of the Federals. F