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neral Pope gives no satisfactory answer. General Van Dorn's forces reach Memphis on the 11th. despr General Halleck. With a view to this, Generals Van Dorn and Price were invited to a conference aentucky. On the arrival of the rest of General Van Dorn's forces at Corinth they were located—incphis and Charleston Railroad, in front of General Van Dorn's position, to the left, where it rested troops were to be held ready for battle. General Van Dorn, on the right, was to move before dayligh, and, by a front attack, co-operate with General Van Dorn, but only after the latter should have tawas to guard the partly vacated lines of Generals Van Dorn and Bragg, by extending his command to ts back to their former positions. From General Van Dorn's statement to him after the failure of tgned movement, which was to commence with General Van Dorn, on the right, and end with General Polk, practicable in a military point of view; General Van Dorn's army corps occupied the hills three or [9 more...]
ganized, subdivided, and located, amounted, as we have already stated, to about one hundred and twenty-five thousand men, with General Halleck, as first, and General Grant, as second, in command. See History of the Army of the Cumberland, by Van Horne, vol. i. pp. 126-130. The Confederate army, under General Beauregard, with the reinforcement of Van Dorn's seventeen thousand men, numbered about fifty thousand, but was daily decreasing on account of sickness. General Pope's recent success the direction of Corinth, and heard the report of an exploding magazine. Corinth was evacuated, and Beauregard had achieved another triumph. I do not know how the matter strikes abler military men, but I think we have been fooled, etc. Van Horne, in his History of the Army of the Cumberland, Vol. i. pp. 128, 129. speaks of General Halleck's superior numbers at Corinth, and of his gradual approaches, step by step, to his objective. He also describes several heavy skirmishes and othe
Braxton Bragg (search for this): chapter 25
rear guard. General Beauregard recommends General Bragg for promotion. preliminary report sent byf General Van Dorn's forces at Corinth; of Generals Bragg's, Polk's, and Breckinridge's. bad water.the same despatch, urgently recommended Major-General Bragg for promotion. His gallant behavior on, 1862, he frequently called on Generals Polk, Bragg, Hardee, and Breckinridge, for their reports osapproval. And we will further state that General Bragg's report, though transmitted, as were the lness was afterwards greatly impaired when General Bragg attempted to make of him and his renowned at swampy sides. They had been located by General Bragg and his engineers, before General Beaurega the left, where it rested on the right of General Bragg, whose left in turn rested on the right ofis subordinate commanders together—namely, Generals Bragg, Van Dorn, Polk, Hardee, Breckinridge, andver addressed to Generals A. S. Johnston, Lee, Bragg, Hood, Pemberton, and other Confederate genera[4 more...]
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ent. Inaccuracies resulting therefrom. General Beauregard proposes an exchange of prisoners. Gene (April 8th) a telegram was forwarded by General Beauregard to the Adjutant-General's office at Richm the date of the battle of Shiloh until General Beauregard was relieved of the command of the army , to propose an exchange of prisoners in General Beauregard's name. Most of those we had taken immeablished. These considerations impelled General Beauregard to hold on to his position at Corinth unciety Papers, vol. VII. pp. 330-33. General Beauregard was disappointed in the result of the exr any emergency. The result showed that General Beauregard had not taken this trouble in vain. No deceive the enemy as to our intentions, General Beauregard ordered that an empty train should be ruwas a most brilliant and successful one. G. T. Beauregard. It is proper here to state that thehered telegram is not in our possession. G. T. Beauregard. These telegrams, together with Gene[76 more...]
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by the following telegrams: 1. Corinth, April 18th, 1862. Major-General M. Lovell, New Orleans, La.: Have seen Lieutenant Brown. Have ordered a work at Vicksburg. Please hold ready to send there sand-bags, guns, carriages, platforms, etc., when called for by Chief-Engineer, Captain D. B. Harris. Have you constructed traverses and blindages at your forts? G. T. Beauregard. 2. Corinth, April 23d, 1862. General S. Cooper, Adjutant-General, Richmond, Va.: Services of General Sam. Jones are absolutely required here as soon as practicable. Having obtained guns for Vicksburg, am going to fortify it. But require engineers. I recommend John M. Reid, Louisiana, as captain, and J. H. Reid, Louisiana, as lieutenant. Am well acquainted with them, they having worked many years under my orders. G. T. Beauregard. 3. Corinth, April 24th, 1862. Major-General M. Lovell, New Orleans, La.: Two 10-inch and four rifled guns are under orders to you from Mobile. Do you want t
onstruct defensive works around Vicksburg. General Pope takes Farmington. Confederate attack. Fedght they might find better accommodations. General Pope made an evasive answer to General Beauregar. On his arrival near Pittsburg Landing, General Pope established himself behind Seven Miles Creedaily decreasing on account of sickness. General Pope's recent successes on the Mississippi River his front, and, with his right overlapping General Pope's left, take it in rear and cut off the Fedy captured two brigades forming the rear of General Pope's command. The enemy lost quite a number inth would, ere long, become a necessity. General Pope having again, on the 18th, advanced towards. The object was, as previously, to attack General Pope's forces and cut off their line of retreat t when the foregoing despatch was penned by General Pope the Confederate forces were actively evacua fifteen thousand stand of arms captured by General Pope's forty thousand men, he makes the followin[10 more...]
cribing to the government an unfriendly feeling towards General Beauregard, about this matter, a list of interrogatories intrusted by Mr. Davis to Colonel W. P. Johnston, his aide-de-camp, is given, with General Beauregard's answers appended to the several questions. It was dated Richmond, June 14th, and was presented, in the President's name, to General Beauregard, after his departure from Tupelo. We may add that no such inquiries were ever addressed to Generals A. S. Johnston, Lee, Bragg, Hood, Pemberton, and other Confederate generals, even after they had met with serious disasters. Question No. 1.—I desire to know what were the circumstances and purposes of the retreat from the Charleston and Memphis Railroad to the position now occupied? Answer No. 1.—My detailed report of the evacuation of Corinth was sent by special messenger to the War Department on the 13th instant (about one week since). The retreat was not of choice, but of necessity. The position had been held
Beauregard hoped that this expedition under Colonel Morgan, together with the operations in Kentucky suggested by General E. Kirby Smith, and strongly urged by General Beauregard on the War Department, See his telegrams of April 14th, to Generals Cooper and E. K. Smith. would force General Halleck, who was plodding away slowly in his advance on Corinth, to send back a part, if not all, of General Buell's army into Tennessee and Kentucky. A third expedition of two regiments of cavalry, underthe Chief Commissary at Richmond, a fact which General Beauregard had more than once pointed out to the War Department, and which he again brought home to it by the following despatch: See also, in Appendix, letter of General Beauregard to General Cooper, dated April 16th, 1862. Corinth, Miss., April 24th, 1862. General S. Cooper, Adjutant-General, Richmond: The false views of administration—to say the least—of Colonel Northrop will starve out this army unless I make other arrangemen
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from Bowling Green, had highly distinguished himself, during the retreat to Corinth, by his great energy and efficiency. He had kept the commanding general thoroughly advised of the movements of the enemy, and had performed many acts indicating high military ability. Having thus had occasion to judge of his capacity and resources, General Beauregard resolved to send him, with four companies of cavalry, Two of which were his own, and the two others under Captain, afterwards Colonel, Robert T. Wood, of New Orleans, a grandson of General Zachary Taylor. into middle Tennessee and Kentucky; there to cause as much damage as possible to the enemy's railroads, bridges, and telegraph lines. He was authorized to raise his battalion to a regiment and even to a brigade, if he could. General Beauregard supplied him with a sum of fifteen thousand dollars, See, in Appendix, letter of General Beauregard to Major McLean, dated April 24th, 1862. to start with, and carry him into Kentucky, whe
r-General E. K. Smith, then commanding in east Tennessee, received from General Beauregard a despatch, in these terms: Corinth, Miss., April 12th, 1862. Major-General E. K. Smith, Comdg. Knoxville, Tenn.: Six regiments on way from General Pemberton, South Carolina, to join me. Three of yours failed to get by Huntsville. Could you not gather the nine, add artillery, and push on Huntsville, taking enemy in reverse? All quiet in front. G. T. Beauregard. The South Carolina regimentestions. It was dated Richmond, June 14th, and was presented, in the President's name, to General Beauregard, after his departure from Tupelo. We may add that no such inquiries were ever addressed to Generals A. S. Johnston, Lee, Bragg, Hood, Pemberton, and other Confederate generals, even after they had met with serious disasters. Question No. 1.—I desire to know what were the circumstances and purposes of the retreat from the Charleston and Memphis Railroad to the position now occupi
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