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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 11 (search)
mise gave me great satisfaction, for such a force might be made very valuable in operations about Atlanta. On the 17th, At night. Major-General Wheeler reported that the whole Federal army had crossed the Chattahoochee, and was near it, between Roswell and Powers's Ferry. At ten o'clock p. M., while Colonel Prestman was with me receiving instructions in relation to his work of the next day on the intrenchments of Atlanta, the following telegram was received from General Cooper, dated July 17th: Lieutenant- General J. B. Hood has been commissioned to the temporary rank of general, under the late law of Congress. I am directed by the Secretary of War to inform you that, as you have failed to arrest the advance of the enemy to the vicinity of Atlanta, far in the interior of Georgia, and express no confidence that you can defeat or repel him, you are hereby relieved from the command of the Army and Department of Tennessee, which you will immediately turn over to General Hood. Or
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 14 (search)
e, nor would the President have explained See his letters on pages 29 and 31. so earnestly why he did not send more. This when Beauregard needed them greatly. Not even a suggestion to move to Manassas was sent to me before the telegram of July 17th, received on the 18th. On the contrary, the President's instructions to me in General Cooper's letters of June 13th, 18th, and 19th, and in his own of June 22d, and July 10th and 13th, prove that he had no such thought. And these letters provne that made it exceedingly improbable that any orders could have been received at headquarters without my cognizance. No order in my recollection was received, either authorizing or directing you to join General Beauregard, other than that of July 17th, which was promptly complied with. No imperative and repeated order to reinforce General Beauregard was given to me; no dispatch on the subject came to me but that given on page 33, which is not imperative. General E. K. Smith testifies th