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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Some war history never published. (search)
h volume has arrived, and promptly looking for the secret paper of Johnston, Beauregard and Smith, I was surprised to find at the head of the g endorsement: The date Oct. I, 1861, does not appear in General Johnston's copy or Smith's man.; that date is that of the meeting. Themed necessary for an offensive campaign. The manner in which General Johnston on other occasions requested me to visit the army under his cops from other commands, as the recital of the paper indicates, General Johnston would have known that in Richmond, where all the returns were he headquarters of the army, in compliance with the request of General Johnston; on the day after my arrival reviewed the troops on the plain above Fairfax Courthouse; after which I proposed to General Johnston that we should have the desired conference, and readily assented to his wuring recruits from those who wished to join us. Previously General Johnston's attention had been called to possibilities in the Valley of
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), First battle of Manassas. (search)
rs and moving by a change of direction, succeeded in reaching the battlefield in time to avert a disaster. Note the words fatal defeat, etc. Stonewall Jackson's way. Jackson's magnificient victory and the unparelled valor of his Stonewall Brigade seemed to be ignored. With a bullet broken finger, he was left to mutter: With 10,000 such men I could take Washington. Jackson could see the way; the two commanding Generals and the President—who deferred to them, as he said—could not. Johnston said: (repeating it to me and others, after the war) We cannot cross a river a mile wide and 18 feet deep. Jackson and Stuart would have found Seneca ford, on the Potomac, 12 miles above Washington, easily fordable. The day after the battle, we had, with reinforcements, 3,000 cavalry on the field. Jackson would have interposed between Washington and the Federal forces in the lower Valley under Maj. Genl. Patterson. The dread of rebel cavalry and masked batteries would have intensified J