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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Recollections of the Elkhorn campaign. (search)
e great territorial command of your father, General Sydney Johnston. I was ordered from the Potomac to go withee and of joining our forces to those under General Sydney Johnston at Corinth, instead of lying idle all sprinnvasion of Arkansas. He therefore proposed to General Johnston to let him march across Arkansas (over 200 miled. Before Van Dorn's proposition had reached General Johnston, he had written for Van Dorn to join him, if pest route, went to Corinth for conference with Generals Johnston and Beauregard. We found Grant lying in force on the Tennessee river, while Johnston's army — over 30,000 strong — occupied entrenched lines about Corinth.he conference between these three remarkable men — Johnston, Beauregard and Van Dorn. I was much impressed by the dignity and earnestness of General Johnston. He expressed with clearness and decision his views and purnest desire to come to his help. I never saw General Johnston again, but shall aways remember that last inte<
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Defence of Charleston from July 1st to July 10th, 1864. (search)
ble man along the line of the Savannah Railroad had been ordered to John's island. As soon as this movement of the enemy was known--2d July--I telegraphed General Johnston (repeating the telegram on the 4th), the War Department, and General Whiting, at Wilmington, asking for reinforcements. I also telegraphed General Chestnut to send me State reserves. General Johnston sent me two small regiments, the Fifth and Forty-seventh Georgia (the same that he had been directed some weeks before by the War Department to send to me in exchange for a brigade that I had sent to him), and General Whiting sent me two companies of artillery. I could obtain no State reserves. When the troops sent by Generals Johnston and Whiting arrived, I directed Colonel George P. Harrison to carry the Thirty-second (his own) and Forty-seventh Georgia regiments and Bonand's Georgia battalion to John's island, and report to General Robertson, commanding that distrtct. With the force thus collected, though n
Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war., Part I. (search)
tle if any shirking. As soon as—almost before—they were recovered they cheerfully reported for duty. The expediency of Johnston's retreat was freely discussed. All seemed to feel that the enemy was being drawn away from his base of supplies into ang dauntlessly onward to meet overwhelming numbers and certain death. On the 18th of July, the news reached us that General Johnston had been relieved from command, and that General Hood had succeeded him. I knew nothing of the relative merits of thed and strongly nourished. This was my blessed privilege; and, thanks to the humane and excellent policy adopted by General Johnston, and continued by General Hood,—both of whom looked well to the ways of quartermasters and commissaries,—the means tommittee when Louisiana seceded, also Secretary of the Legislature. He was killed at Shiloh at the same hour as General Sydney Johnston, and is buried in Nashville. We are hoping to have the dear brother's monument in Hollywood, Richmond, where b
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 3 (search)
est of ambition's crime; Our greatest, yet with least pretence. Great in council and great in war; Rich in saving common sense; And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. The cause we celebrate to-night! Not the cause of sedition or treason, not that of vaulting ambition, nor yet of secession or disunion, but the cause of the statehood of the States, of the Constitution and union of the fathers; the cause that Lee battled for with a giant's might; the cause for which Sydney Johnston and Stonewall Jackson gave their glorious lives, and for which their hero soldiers were content to bleed and die and sleep in unmarked graves on an hundred fields; the cause of constitutional limitations and constitutional law. That is the cause we commemorate to-night. The cause will live. It did not perish utterly at Appomattox. It did not die with Lee. It will survive the passions of the hour and live when sneering hypocrites and brazen demagogues with their force bills and th
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.11 (search)
nsas to aid in the descent on Mississippi. The Confederacy was to be cut in twain, and its capital and chief cities wrestled from it, by a simultaneous concentration of numbers and blows from every quarter. The giant Goliath not more despised the shepherd boy David, with his sling and stone from the brook, than did the North the meagre forces which the South could gather to oppose it. Early in the spring, the clouds burst Donelson was stormed, Nashville and Columbus were evacuated, Sydney Johnston was driven from Kentucky, and Tennessee Island No.10 was surrendered, Roanoke and Newberne were captured, New Orleans was lost. An army had started for the heart of Mississippi, Vicksburg was attacked, Charleston and Savannah were threatened. The great army of the Potomac forced its way in sight of the spires of Richmond. When the year ended, three invading armies had been routed in the Valley. The splendid army which essayed to capture Richmond, beaten in a week of battles before
The Daily Dispatch: October 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
ca. Also, Articles of War, for the government of the army of the Confederate States of America."--Richmond, Va.: West & Johnston, 145 Main street, Publishers. A valuable work, which at this time, must command a large circulation. "Chisholm's MJ. Julien Chisholm, M. D., Professor of Surgery in the Medical College of the State of South Carolina." Richmond: West & Johnston, Publishers. This admirable work should be in the hands of every surgeon in the Confederate army. Our physicians, most,) by Capt. Joseph Roberts, 4th Regiment of Artillery, U. S. A.: second edition, revised and enlarged. Richmond: West & Johnston. "Gilham's Manual of Instruction for the Volunteers and Militia; " published by West & Johnston. The author, Col. Johnston. The author, Col. William Gil am, is a distinguished officer, and Professor of the V. M. I., whose works on military subjects have had a prodigious run. The present should be in the hands of every citizen soldier. We point proudly to these works as magnificent sp
The Daily Dispatch: October 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Boy Mortara. (search)
eaving behind some 13 killed, and bringing some 2 wounded away. The General, finding the enemy's breastworks "impregnable," (using his own words,) concluded to fall back some eight miles, fearing the enemy were endeavoring to cut off his supplies. Whilst on this march he received reliable information that the enemy had been largely reinforced, and continued his march to Camp Laurel. This point he reached on Tuesday night. Early Wednesday morning he received a telegram from Gen. Sydney Johnston, notifying him of the advance of some 20,000 upon Cumberland Gap. He immediately took up his march for the Gap, some forty-five or fifty miles. It is proper to state that we lost no commissioned officer. A brother of Col. Newman was killed while bravery charging upon the enemy's breastworks. The enemy's loss was supposed to be some 20 killed and a number wounded. One officer remarked, in the presence of Mr. Comann, that "Beauregard with 50,000 men could not take the place in twent
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Legislature of Virginia. (search)
ugh to afford the chance of a decisive battle, that is all our Generals of their men desire or ask. This granted, they will take care of the feat; and it is much to be hoped that the rampant politicians in Washington will be able by the leverage which this Drainsville business will give them to force McClellan into the field. Trusting to a large superiority of numbers the enemy seem steadily to be pushing forward their troops in Kentucky for an attack in force upon our army under Gen. Sydney Johnston. From all the indications in that quarter, a grand engagement within a few days seems unavoidable. Thus circumstances all combine to bring about two great engagements on either side of the Alleghanies, which, but for the relations of Great Britain to the North, would be decisive of the war. If the South should be beaten on both fields, she could hardly expect for some time to get together two armies of any magnitude; and would have to depend altogether upon the virtues of a Fabian p
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sudden death on
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Corley, wounded severely in the thigh. Alexandria Rifles, Co D, Capt. Woodruff--Privates Jesse Sims, Calvin, Owens, Banister Jennings, and L. Crook, slight flesh wounds; and Lewis Reynolds, slightly, in face. Fort William Rifles, Co K, Capt McKenzie--Privates Bushrod, Moss, and John Callahan, killed; private J. W. Lindsay, severely wounded in the thigh. Yancey Guards, Co I, Capt. Hughes--Corporal C A Webb, privates Herman Herzburg, and William A. Jones, killed; Corporal G. L Johnston, slightly wounded in neck; private M J Hall, severely in the ankle; Abal Christopher, severely wounded in the thigh; Benj. F. Fry, slight in the heel; Lt. L. E. Hamlin, slightly wounded in shoulder and leg; private Thomas R. Ferguson, severely wounded in arm and breast; private Thomas Womack, slightly wounded. Rope Walker Guards, Co. G--Captain Forney, slightly wounded in the leg; private Jesse Harris severely wounded in the neck; private W. W. Maragne, wounded severely in the shoulder
The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Negro Hiring for 1862. (search)
Virginia and Tennessee railroad, not a hundred miles distant. The sequel will soon prove that the val of the army of the Kanawha to Kentucky was entirely unnecessary, and that the panic into which the Government fell for the safety of Gen. Sydney Johnston was wholly without ground. It will prove that much more good could have been effected by menacing Cincinnati from Western Virginia through Eastern Kentucky, than by massing our whole force for mere defence before Bowling Green. True milito go to the dogs. A strong force at Peterstown, sending out detachments into the valleys of the Kanawha, the Guyandotte, and the Sandy, would, in co-operation with the movements of Marshall and Zollicoffer, have given infinitely more aid to Gen. Johnston, while at the same time protecting one-fourth of Virginia now left at the mercy of the enemy, than this reckless and soon to prove disastrous measure of stripping Western Virginia of its own troops. The Government will be surprised some
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