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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
f Department of Tennessee. General Bragg's telegram; suggestion too late. review of the Mississippi campaign. visit Mobile to examine its defenses. letter from the President, commenting harshly on my military conduct. my reply to it. Congress calls for the correspondence. my letter not furnished. both letters. events during the fall. ordered to take command of the army at Dalton. arrive on 26th and assume command on 27th of December. About seven o'clock in the morning of the 9th of July General Sherman, with three corps of the Federal army, appeared before the slight line of fieldworks thrown up for the defense of Jackson by General Pemberton's orders. These works, consisting of a very light line of rifle-pits, with low embankments at intervals to cover field-pieces, extended from a point north of the town, and a little east of the Canton road, to one south of it within a short distance of Pearl River, and covered the approaches to the place west of the river. These in
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 14 (search)
s A. G. Brown, D. F. Kenner, E. Barksdale, and W. P. Harris, See their dispatch, pages 212, 213. thought thirty thousand more troops necessary, they being on the spot. For the causes of Confederate disasters in Mississippi, the reader is referred to pages 204-211. The assertions concerning the little siege of Jackson are contradicted by the very correspondence See it as published by Confederate Congress, and in Appendix, pages referred to, and in pages 207 and 208. On the first day, July 9th, I telegraphed to Mr. Davis that I should endeavor to hold the place. On the 11th: It (the intrenched line) is very defective; cannot stand a siege, but improves a bad position against assault. On the 13th: The enemy's rifles (cannon) reached all parts of the town, showing the weakness of the position, and its untenableness against a powerful artillery. . . . If the position and works were not bad, want of stores, which could not be collected, would make it impossible to stand a siege. T