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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 22: (search)
s of the enemy losses strength of forces General Lee in command. Our army having retreated frpurposes. We had, under the supervision of General Lee, perfected as far as we could the detached nded the offensive-defensive program from which Lee expected much, and of which I was hopeful. I across the field from a house before which General Lee's horse was standing. I turned down to the house, and asked General Lee what the musketry firing meant. He replied by asking whether I had hnfavorable to the transmission of sound. General Lee and myself then rode to the field of battlered impassable by the rise of the river. General Lee, at nightfall, gave instructions to Generalhe previous night, and where I learned from General Lee that he would remain. After turning into te there to see him. To relieve both him and General Lee from any embarrassment, I preferred to makeal knowledge of the subject: I consider General Lee's exhibition of grand administrative talent[3 more...]
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 23: (search)
Chapter 23: The enemy's position his intention the plan of operations movements of General Jackson daring and fortitude of Lee offensive-defensive policy General Stuart's movement order of attack critical position of McClellan order of Lincoln creating the army of Virginia arrival of Jackson position of the enemy diversion of General Longstreet the enemy forced back South of the Chickahominy abandonment of the Railroad. When riding from the field of battle with General Robert E. Lee on the previous day, I informed him that he would be assigned to the command of the army, vice General Johnston, wounded, and that he could make his preparations as soon as he reached his quarters, as I should send the order to him as soon as I arrived at mine. On the next morning, as above stated, he proceeded to the field and took command of the troops. During the night our forces on the left had fallen back from their position at the close of the previous day's battle, bu
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 24: (search)
Major Taylor, in his work, Four Years with General Lee. states: In addition to the troops abov as the effective strength of the army when General Lee assumed command. There have been variouadvantage which might have been obtained if General Lee, in succeeding to the command, had renewd ouotes General J. E. Johnston as saying: General Lee did not attack the enemy until the 26th of e before General Holmes was ordered to join General Lee. The brigade of General Branch had been ded Harbor on June 27, 1862, as 3,500 men. General Lee, after the battle of Seven Pines, had sent were counted in the force of the army when General Lee took command of it. Lawton's Georgia brigadconclusion that the whole force received by General Lee was about 23,000—about 30,000 less than yourly as the entire reenforcement received by General Lee after the battle of Seven Pines and before the whole increment to the army with which General Lee took the offensive against McClellan. It
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 35: (search)
age, announce, by proclamation, to the people of Maryland, the motives and purposes of your presence among them at the head of an invading army; and you are instructed in such proclamation to make known. . . . In obedience to instructions, General Lee issued the following address: headquarters, army of Northern Virginia, near Frederick, September 8, 1862. To the people of Maryland: It is right that you should know the purpose that has brought the army under my command within the lhe preceding day, except in the center, where our line was drawn in about two hundred yards. Our ranks were increased by the arrival of a number of troops who had not been engaged the day before, and, though still too weak to assume the offensive, Lee waited without apprehension a renewal of the attack. The day passed without any hostile demonstration. During the night of the 18th our army was withdrawn to the south side of the Potomac, crossing near Shepardstown, without loss or molestation.
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 41: (search)
ntil 1 P. M., when the bridge was removed. General Lee said that the enemy offered no serious inteted at 62,000 of all arms. Four Years with General Lee. The report of the Army of the Potomac undeVirginia. Map: battle of Gettysburg. General Lee, in his report, noticing the large loss of s could be repaired, ours could not. Had General Lee been able to compel the enemy to attack himat all inclined to make the experiment. If General Lee, by moving to the right, would only have le impossibility under such circumstances for General Lee to supply his army for any length of time s to a victory is refuted by the fact that, when Lee halted on the banks of the Potomac, Meade, instbe generally described. Early in October General Lee, with two corps (Ewell's and Hill's), the Flted in an entire failure. General Meade found Lee's army posted behind Mine Run, and ready to recf abatis. As General Meade did not attack, General Lee, on the night of December 1st, determined t[8 more...]
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 49: (search)
men, when invading our country, was killed by some unknown person while defending his home. General Lee was further directed by me to say that if a reply was not received in fifteen days, it would will be immediately taken to ascertain the facts of the alleged execution, and promised that General Lee should be duly informed thereof. Subsequently, on November 25, 1862, our agent for the exchad of by its captor. On October 1st, when the number of prisoners was large on either side, General Lee addressed a note to General Grant, saying: With a view of alleviating the sufferings of owould ask if you propose delivering these men the same as white soldiers. On the next day General Lee said, in rejoinder: In my proposition of the 1st inst., to exchange the prisoners of war sufferings; finally, confiding in the chivalry characteristic of soldiers, it sought, through General Lee, to make an arrangement with General Grant for the exchange of all the prisoners held in thei
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 50: (search)
eneficial could be effected, it must be done without the intervention of the politicians. He therefore suggested that Generals Lee and Grant might enter into an arrangement by which hostilities would be suspended, and a way paved for the restoration of peace. I responded that I would willingly entrust to General Lee such negotiation as was indicated. The conference then ended, and to report to Lincoln the result of his visit, Blair returned to Washington. He subsequently informed me thatrms of capitulation, he replied: No terms, except unconditional and immediate surrender, can be accepted. When General Lee asked the same question, on April 9, 1865, General Grant replied: The terms upon which peace can be had are well us, and Sherman therefore wrote to Johnston: I demand the surrender of your army on the same terms as were given to General Lee at Appomattox, on April 9th, purely and simply. It remains to be stated that the government which spurned all thes
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 51: (search)
arolina. The two forces, if united with Hardee's command, then moving in the same direction, would, it was hoped, be able to make effective resistance to Sherman's advance. In any event it was needful that they should be kept in such relation to Lee's army as to make a junction with it practicable. In this state of affairs I was informed that General Beauregard, after his troops had entered North Carolina, had decided to march to the eastern part of that state. This would leave the road to Beauregard, enable him to destroy our force in detail by the joint action of his own army and that of Schofield, commanding the district of Wilmington. The anxiety created by this condition of affairs caused me, after full correspondence with General Lee, to suggest to him to give his views to General Beauregard, and I sent to General Beauregard's headquarters the chief engineer, General J. F. Gilmer, he being possessed fully of my opinions and wishes. General Beauregard modified his proposed
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 52: (search)
black troops had followed—was poured a hurricane of shot, shell, canister, musketry, which made the hideous crater a slaughter-pen, horrible and frightful, beyond the power of words. All order was lost; all idea of charging the crest abandoned. Lee's infantry was seen concentrating for the carnival of death; his artillery was massing to destroy the remnants of the charging divisions; those who deserted the crater, to scramble over the debris and run back, were shot down; then all that was leit was to shrink lower, evade the horrible mitraille, and wait for a charge of their friends to rescue them or surrender. The forces of the enemy finally succeeded in making their way back, with a loss of about four thousand prisoners, and General Lee, whose casualties were small, reestablished his line without interruption. This affair was subsequently investigated by a committee of the Congress of the United States, and their report declared that the first and great cause of the disaster
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 53: (search)
rce the conflagration in Richmond telegram of Lee to the President the evacuation complete the charge of the removal of supplies intended for Lee's army the facts arrangements with General LeeGeneral Lee proclamation reports of scouts. When, on the morning of April 2d, the main line of the defenst no orders were received to place supplies for Lee's army at Amelia Court House; that sufficient ster the evacuation, I recollect you said to General Lee in my presence that you had a large number g of April 2, 1865, the chief commissary of General Lee's army was asked by telegram what should bel evacuated the defenses of the capital and General Lee withdrew from Petersburg, I left Richmond ause or any other station on the route. Had General Lee's letter to me, written on the afternoon of The design, as previously arranged with General Lee, was that, if he should be compelled to eva General Johnston from Danville the report that Lee had surrendered; on arriving at Greensboro, I c[12 more...]
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