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General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 35: cut off from East and West. (search)
ck, when General Bragg ordered me to ask for a board of officers to examine into the merits of the case. The board was ordered, and General Robertson was relieved from duty by orders from General Bragg's headquarters, while the proceedings and actions of the examining board in his case were pending. On the 8th, without notice to my Headquarters, General Bragg ordered, Brigadier-General Robertson will rejoin his command until the board can renew its session. Rebellion Record. On the 18th of December the division commander preferred charges and specifications against Brigadier-General Robertson, in which he accused him of calling the commanders of his Texas regiments to him and saying there were but Three days rations on hand, and God knows where more are to come from; that he had no confidence in the campaign; that whether we whipped the enemy in the immediate battle or not, we would be compelled to retreat, the enemy being believed by citizens and others to be moving around us, an