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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 1 (search)
General of the United States. defense of West point officers, who resigned, from Unjust attack. assigned to duty of organizing Virginia troops. ordered by President Davis to take command at Harper's Ferry. convinced, on examination, that it was untenable. correspondence, on the subject, with General Lee and the Confederate aufounded on their opinions that the heavier engines of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad would crush the trestle-work of the Winchester road if brought upon it. Mr. Davis wrote to me in a letter dated 22d: I congratulate you on the brilliant movement of Colonel Vaughn's command. To break the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Rai sick, seventeen hundred in number, were provided for in Winchester. The original is in possession of the Government in Washington. In an indorsement on it, by Mr. Davis, I am accused of reporting his telegram to me inaccurately. I did not profess to quote his words, but to give their meaning, which was done correctly. for it wo
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 2 (search)
anassas. Discouragements of the march. arrival at Manassas. President Davis's telegram. General Beauregard's proposed plan of attack appreral McDowell anticipates it. battle of Manassas. arrival of President Davis. reasons why an advance on Washington was impracticable. Taking hands: How has the battle gone? In Alfriend's Life of Jefferson Davis it is asserted (p. 305) that the President reached the battle-ve declaimed vehemently. The authors of Alfriend's Life of Jefferson Davis seem to regard this tone of the Southern press as evidence of Southern opinion on this question, and claim that Mr. Davis was far from approving the inaction which followed Manassas. He confidently expeferent use of the victory.... Indeed, before leaving Manassas, President Davis favored the most vigorous pursuit practicable.... The evidenceton dwells with such force and emphasis were indeed palpable, but Mr. Davis confidently believed that an efficient pursuit might be made by s
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter3 (search)
the President himself should come to the headquarters of the army, then at Fairfax Court-House, to decide this question, after conference with such officers as he might select, or send the Secretary of War, or some other confidential officer. Mr. Davis preferred the former course, and came himself, promptly, arriving on the last day of September (I think). He had a conference of several hours on the matter in question, the evening of the next day, in General Beauregard's quarters, with that onone from other points for that army, and could do no more to increase its strength than send it as many recruits as there were arms in our ordnance-store-twenty-five hundred. This, of course decided the question of active operations then. Mr. Davis then proposed some operations of a partisan character, especially an expedition, by a detachment, against Hooker's division, in Maryland, opposite to Evansport. I objected to this proposition, because we had no means of transporting any suffic
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 4 (search)
the abandoned storehouses. Early on the 11th all the infantry and artillery crossed the Rappahannock. Ewell's and Early's divisions encamped near the river, on both sides of the railroad, and Smith and Longstreet marched on to Culpepper Court-House, as no enemy appeared on the turnpike. The cavalry occupied Warrenton Junction, with pickets on Cedar Run and the turnpike. My headquarters were near the Rappahannock Station, but south of the river. The authors of Alfriend's Life of Jefferson Davis assert that the destruction of valuable material, including an extensive meat-curing establishment containing large supplies of meat, and established by the Government, which ensued upon the evacuation of Manassas, elicited much exasperated censure. The censure elicited by this destruction should have been directed at those who located the great meat-curing establishment of the Government on the frontier, instead of in the interior of the country; this, too, without the knowledge of
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 5 (search)
e Confederates both in front and flank. The claims of the same officers to decided successes on Sunday are disproved by what immediately precedes, and the reports of Generals Hill and Pickett. The chances of success on that day were all in favor of the Confederates. The numbers of the opposing forces were nearly equal. But three of the six Federal divisions had, successively, been thoroughly beaten the day before by five Confederate brigades. The authors of Alfriend's Life of Jefferson Davis, and some other biographers, represent, to my disparagement, that the army with which General Lee fought in the seven days was only that which I had commanded. It is very far from the truth. General Lee did not attack the enemy until the 26th of June, because he was employed, from the 1st until then, in forming a great army, by bringing, to that which I had commanded, fifteen thousand General Holmes told me in General Lee's presence, just before the fight began on the 31st, that he h
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 6 (search)
h cases. After exhorting the Legislature, in a fervent address, to take all the measures necessary to enable the Governor to bring out the whole remaining military force of the State to aid the Confederate troops in the defense of its soil, Mr. Davis returned to Richmond. Being convinced, before he left Jackson, that my command was little more than nominal, I so represented it to him, and asked to be assigned to a different one, on the ground that two armies far apart, like those of Misits confidence as to impair his usefulness in his present position; to obtain such information as would enable me to decide what the best interests of the service required; and to give the President the advice which he needed at that juncture. Mr. Davis remarked, in this letter, that his own confidence in General Bragg was unshaken. I bestowed three weeks upon this investigation, and then advised against General Bragg's removal, because the field-officers of the army represented that their
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
forcements. Port Hudson is closely invested. The great object of the enemy in this campaign is to acquire possession of the Mississippi. Can you collect here a force sufficient to defeat this object? In Mr. Seddon's next dispatch, dated June 5th, he said: .... I regret my inability to promise more troops, as we have drained resources even to the danger of several points. You know best concerning General Bragg's army, but I fear to withdraw more. We are too far outnumbered in it In Mr. Davis's quotation, in his letter of July 15th, this word is Virginia. In the dispatch to me it is a word of two letters. to spare any. You must rely on what you have, and the irregular forces Mississippi can afford. On the 8th he asked, on the same subject, Do you advise more reenforcements from General Bragg? I replied on the 10th: I have not at my disposal half the number of troops necessary. It is for the Government to determine what department, if any, can furnish the reenforcements requ
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
rces of information, knew as well as the Administration the relative forces of the belligerents in Mississippi, were in full agreement with mine. I give their opinions as expressed by themselves, in a telegram dated Jackson, June 18, 1863: President Davis: From information derived from the military authorities here, we are convinced that it will require not less than thirty thousand additional troops to relieve Vicksburg. The withdrawal of these troops may possibly involve the surrender e Secretary of State. If all the misconduct alleged had been actually committed, the Administration was unjustifiable in keeping me in a position so important as the command of a department. As good-natured weakness was never attributed to Mr. Davis as a fault, it is not easy to reconcile the assertions and tone of this letter with his official course toward me — his not only retaining me in command of a department, but subsequently assigning me to that of the Army of Tennessee after its d
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 11 (search)
r Brown. This led to the following correspondence between him and the President: Atlanta, June 28, 1864. His Excellency Jefferson Davis: I need not call your attention to the fact that this place is to the Confederacy almost as important as th the State, that I trust you will excuse what may seem to be an intrusion. (Signed) Joseph E. Brown. Reply of President Davis, received at Atlanta, July 4, 1864. Richmond, June 29th. To Governor J. E. Brown: Your dispatch of yesterday receore effectually than by the present arrangement. (Signed) Jefferson Davis. Atlanta, July 4, 1864. His Excellency President Davis: I received your dispatch last night. I regret exceedingly that you cannot grant my request, as I am satisfied Sat your bidding. You know how I felt when you showed me the order relieving you-when, after the fall of Atlanta, President Davis visited us at Palmetto Station, he asked me whom the army preferred as its commander. My reply was, in substance, t
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 12 (search)
ch treaties of peace were founded; and proposed that he should allow me to address General Sherman on the subject. After a few words in opposition to that idea, Mr. Davis reverted to the first suggestion, that he should offer terms to the Government of the United States--which he had put aside; and sketched a letter appropriate toIn the course of the afternoon we agreed upon the terms expressed in the memorandum drawn up on the 18th, except that General Sherman did not consent to include Mr. Davis and the officers of his cabinet in an otherwise general amnesty. This consideration was mine, of course. General Sherman did not desire the arrest of these gen, and the conference was suspended, to be resumed at ten o'clock next morning. Thinking it probable that the confidential relations of the Secretary of War with Mr. Davis might enable him to remove the only obstacle to an adjustment, I requested him by telegraph to join me as soon as possible. General Breckenridge and Mr. Reag
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