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following the battle. error of Mr. Davis as to the order he wrote. on the 22d General Beauregard assigns his troops to new positions. the President confers the rank of General on General Beauregard, subject to the approval of congress. on the 25th, address issued to troops by Generals Johnston and Beauregard. organization of General Beauregard's army into brigades. impossibility of any military movement of importance, and why. army without transportation and without subsistence. Colonelr the battle; and the line of march of our troops, on their way to the new positions assigned them, was rich in abandoned arms and other military property. A great deal was carried off by the people, and was recovered with much trouble. On the 25th, Generals Johnston and Beauregard issued an address to their troops, awarding to them the praises they deserved for their patriotic courage on the battle-fields of the 18th and 21st. The concluding words were as follows: Soldiers, we congratulate
stated that he was not authorized to agree to the last two conditions, but would telegraph the answer of the War Department from Richmond. Accordingly, on the 23d, he telegraphed the following assent: Richmond January 23d, 1862. General Beauregard: Have not seen Toombs. Committee extremely anxious you should go. Judge Harris is sure President consents to all your wishes. I send letter in the morning. Roger A. Pryor. A letter to the same effect came the next day; and, on the 25th, the War Department was officially notified of General Beauregard's final acquiescence in the wishes of Congress and of the Executive. So important to success did he consider it to have experienced officers with him, that he immediately forwarded to the Adjutant-General's Department the names of six infantry colonels whom he had selected for promotion and transfer to the West, and of the engineers and other staff officers of lower grade, who should accompany him, And, in order to prevent
ate war between the States. He was brave and intelligent, but was generally considered too much of a disciplinarian to effect great results with irregular troops. had entered Bowling Green on the 15th of February, the day after it was evacuated by the Confederates, and one day before the surrender of Fort Donelson. He had then advanced leisurely on Nashville, about seventy-five miles distant, arriving opposite that city, on the Cumberland River, on the 23d. It was surrendered to him on the 25th, by the civil authorities, and he occupied it the next day. The rear guard of the Confederate forces, under General Floyd, had left Nashville for Murfreesboroa, thirty-two miles distant in a southerly direction, on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, when the enemy appeared on the south side of the river. General Buell remained at Nashville, a passive spectator of General Johnston's slow and quiet retreat, first to Murfreesboroa, thence to Fayetteville, Huntsville, and Decatur, making
nt, to our regret, is not in our possession. Foreseeing the necessity of withdrawing his forces from Corinth, and having, in fact, resolved to adopt that course within a short time, General Beauregard began to prepare General Villepigue for the event; not that Fort Pillow was then in any immediate danger, for the enemy had no land forces to spare for operations against it, but because a retrograde movement from Corinth necessarily involved the evacuation of the fort. He, therefore, on the 25th, telegraphed to General Villepigue that whenever the place, in his judgment, should become untenable, he must destroy the works and armaments, and evacuate it, as already instructed; repairing to Grenada, by the shortest route, for the protection of the depot; giving timely notice of the same to Fort Randolph and to Memphis. Three days afterwards, and when the precise moment of the retreat from Corinth had been decided upon (as will be, hereafter, more fully developed), General Beauregard
tment. necessity of withdrawing from Corinth. Tupelo selected for next defensive position. General Beauregard resolves to construct defensive works around Vicksburg. General Pope takes Farmington. Confederate attack. Federal retreat. on the 25th General Beauregard calls a council of War. evacuation of Corinth resolved upon. General Beauregard's instructions to his corps commanders. dispositions taken to deceive the enemy. retreat successfully accomplished.—false despatches of the enemest content with holding our lines, while he made arrangements for an orderly retreat. Meantime, General Halleck had not ceased advancing his successive lines, from his left to his right, notwithstanding the opposition we offered him. On the 25th, General Beauregard called his subordinate commanders together—namely, Generals Bragg, Van Dorn, Polk, Hardee, Breckinridge, and, by request, Major-General Price—to discuss the necessity of evacuating Corinth, and determine the time and method of <
ter referred to is in the Appendix to this chapter. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, George W. Randolph, Sec. of War. Not a word of explanation, not an expression of regret at the abrupt change, are to be found in the few lines given above. An act of greater official discourtesy could hardly have been committed. A delinquent second lieutenant could not have been more summarily dealt with. General Beauregard made no direct answer to the Secretary of War; but, on the 25th, from Mobile, where he still was, advising General Forney, as he had said he would do, he wrote this letter to General Cooper: General,—Enclosed please find the certificate It has already been given to the reader. of my physicians, members of my general staff as inspectors, recommending that I should withdraw for a while from the command of Department No. 2. This is the third certificate to the same effect I have received from them since my arrival at Jackson, Tennessee; but find
nd already all needful preparations are being made for a proper and prompt evacuation of this place. G. T. Beauregard, Genl. Comdg. Corinth, Miss., May 26th, 1862. Dear General,—I fully concur in the views contained in your letter of the 25th instant, received last night, and I had already commenced giving orders to my chiefs of staff departments for their execution. But everything that is done must be done under the plea of the intention to take the offensive at the opportune moment. Evr your kind wishes, I remain, yours truly, G. T. Beauregard. Maj.-Genl. W. J. Hardee, near Corinth, Miss. Headquarters Western Department, Corinth, Miss., May 26th, 1862. Maj.-Genl. Mansfield Lovell, Vicksburg, Miss.: General,—Your favors of 25th and 26th instant have just been received. I telegraphed you yesterday relative to General Ruggles's position, which I hope is settled for the present. The great point is to defend the river at Vicksburg. The question of who does it must be of a