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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 1 (search)
in letters dated May 26th and 28th, and June 6th, and replied to by General Lee After Richmond became the seat of the Confederate Government, General Lee performed a part of the duties of the Secretary of War, and of the Adjutant-General. on the 1st and 7th of June. These letters of his express the dissent of the authorities from my views, and their opinion that the maintenance of the existing arrangement was necessary to enable us to retain the command of the Valley of Virginia, and our communications with Maryland, held to be very important. General Lee wrote in his letter of June 1st: I received, on my return from Manassas Junction, your communications of the 25th and 28th ult., in reference to your position at Harper's Ferry. The difficulties which surround it have been felt from the beginning of its occupation, and I am aware of the obstacles to its maintenance with your present force. Every effort has been made to remove them, and will be continued. But, with similar
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
d, by say seven thousand, the estimate of your dispatch of the 27th instant. We withheld nothing which it is practicable to give. ... And on the 30th : .... . Added to the forces you have from Pemberton's army, he (the Secretary of War) states your whole force to be thirty-four thousand exclusive of militia. I had no militia, and supposed that the State had none; for the Confederate military laws put the whole population fit to bear arms under the President's control. I replied on the 1st of June: The Secretary of War is greatly mistaken in his numbers. By their own returns, the troops at my disposal available against Grant are: of Pemberton's, nine thousand seven hundred; of Bragg's, eight thousand four hundred; of Beauregard's, six thousand; not including irregular cavalry, nor Jackson's command About two thousand, by General Bragg's report. (cavalry), the strength of which I do not know.... In a telegram to Mr. Seddon (Secretary of War), dated June 2d, I said: Your letter of
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 11 (search)
trenched line was extended daily toward the railroad, in the direction of Alatoona. We endeavored to keep pace with this extension, to prevent being cut off from the railroad and Marietta. But, from the great inequality of force, two or three miles of the right of ours was occupied by dismounted cavalry in skirmishing order. The enemy's demonstrations against this part of our front led to skirmishing with Wheeler's troops, in which the latter captured above a hundred prisoners between the 1st and 4th of June. The infantry skirmishers of the two armies were incessantly engaged at the same time, from right to left, when there was light enough to distinguish and aim at a man. At the end of that time it was evident that the great body of the Federal army was moving to its left rear, toward the railroad, the movement being covered by its long line of intrenchment. The Confederate army then marched to a position selected beforehand, and carefully marked out by Colonel Prestman, th
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 14 (search)
ter assuming command, you reported to General Lee against the occupation of Harper's Ferry, and that authority for its evacuation was received about the time the position was abandoned. It is evident from General Lee's letters, Page 20. of June 1st and 7th, that mine of May 26th and 28th, and June 6th, expressed opinions decidedly unfavorable to Harper's Ferry as a military position, and proposed its evacuation. General Smith's testimony is direct and positive to the same effect; and the ity of numbers, it was a hundred and thirty-three thousand Report of Adjutant-General of the United States Army to committee on conduct of the war. to fifty thousand; far greater than existed when General Lee took command of that army on the first of June, or than that against us in Mississippi in December, 1862, or in Middle Tennessee in 1863. Yet General Lee was justly sustained by the Administration and people for postponing his attack upon McClellan four weeks, that he might make it with