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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 41: fall of Vicksburg, July 4, 1863. (search)
cessary or desirable. On May 9, 1863, General Johnston was ordered to proceed at once to Mississerton then sent the following despatch to General Johnston: Edward's Depot, May 14, 1863. I shaland delivered the following despatch from General Johnston: Canton Road, Ten Miles from Jackson, M,000. My effective force is 50,000 ; and General Johnston telegraphed to Richmond that the troops hneral Pemberton called a council of war, laid Johnston's communication before them, and requested th anything from the rear; and on the 11th, General Johnston telegraphed to Richmond: I have not at mye such comparisons. As already stated, General Johnston had been assigned to the command of a geosubject to General Johnston's orders; but General Johnston seemed to regard it differently, and tel General Grant telegraphed General Halleck: Joe Johnston has postponed his attack until he can receig. General Sherman will face immediately on Johnston and drive him from the State. On July 17th[16 more...]
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 42: President Davis's letter to General Johnston after the fall of Vicksburg. (search)
Chapter 42: President Davis's letter to General Johnston after the fall of Vicksburg. Richmond, July 15, 1863. General J. E. Johnston, Commanding, etc. General: Your despatch of the 5th instant stating that you considered your assignment to the immediate command in Mississippi as giving you a new position and as limiting your authority, being a repetition of a statement which you were informed was a grave error, and being persisted in after your failure to point out, when requested, the letter or despatch justifying you in such a conclusion, rendered it necessary, as you were informed in my despatch of the 8th instant, that I should make a more extended reply than could be given in a telegram. That there may be no possible room for further mistake in this matter, I am compelled to recapitulate the substance of all orders and instructions given to you, so far as they bear on this question. On November 24th last you were assigned, by Special Order No. 275, to a defined