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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 21: (search)
nt Royal in charge of some prisoners and captured stores—the latter, however, the garrison before retreating had destroyed. Strasburg being General Jaskson's objective point, he had farther to march to reach that position than either of the columns operating against him. The rapidity of movement which marked General Jackson's operations had given to his command the appellation of foot cavalry; never had they more need to show themselves entitled to the name of Stonewall. On the night of May 31st, by a forced march, General Jackson arrived with the head of his column at Strasburg, and learned that General Fremont's advance was in the immediate vicinity. To gain time for the rest of his army to arrive, General Jackson decided to check Fremont's march by an attack in the morning. This movement was assigned to General Ewell, General Jackson personally giving his attention to preserving his immense trains filled with captured stores. The repulse of Fremont's advance was so easy that
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 22: (search)
nt over another corps, and commenced fortifying a line near to Seven Pines. In the forenoon of May 31st, riding out on the New Bridge road, I heard firing in the direction of Seven Pines. As I drew us may be approximated by taking his returns for June 20th and adding thereto his casualties on May 31st and June 1st, because between the last-named date and June 20th no action had occurred to creatlman's corps, 18,810, and of Keyes's corps, 14,610, on June 20th, by adding their casualties of May 31st and June 1st—4,516—we deduce the strength of these two corps on May 31st to have been 37,936 asMay 31st to have been 37,936 as the aggregate present for duty. It thus appears that, at the commencement of the action on May 31st, we had a numerical superiority of about 2,500. Adopting the same method to calculate the strenMay 31st, we had a numerical superiority of about 2,500. Adopting the same method to calculate the strength of Sumner's corps, we find it to have been 18,724, which would give the enemy in round numbers a force of 16,000 in excess of ours after General Sumner crossed the Chickahominy. Both combatants
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 24: (search)
-six (62,696) as the effective strength of the army under General Johnston on May 31, 1862. Deduct the losses sustained in the battle of Seven Pines as shown by the official reports of casualties, say 6,084, and we have 56,612 as the effective strength of the army when General Lee assumed command. There have been various attempts made to point out the advantage which might have been obtained if General Lee, in succeeding to the command, had renewd on June 1st the unfinished battle of May 31st; the representation that he commenced his campaign known as the Seven Day's Battles only after he had collected a great army, instead of moving with a force not greatly superior to that which his predecessor had, has led to the full exposition of all the facts bearing upon the case. In the Southern Historical Society Papers, June, 1876, is published an extract from an address of Colonel Charles Marshall, secretary and aidede-camp to General R. E. Lee, before the Virginia Division of the Ar