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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 5 (search)
im. In fact, he is the one man who seems to have come to his work with a clear and fixed idea of what is needed in every detail of it. Cordial intercourse. Our intercourse, as you know, has been cordial, and even affectionate, ever since we met in Mexico. I was with him for a few days after the first battle of Manassas and accompanied him as he rode over the field and described the course and incidents of the fight. Then, I being ordered to the West, met him no more until about Christmas, 1862. When he came to our army at Grenada with President Davis, who reviewed and inspected it, the army was in position in our entrenchments on the Yallabusha. I commanded the centre and was in my place when General Johnston rode out from the President's cortege, greeted me most cordially, and asked me to ride with him, which we did for several hours. A mistake. He had just returned from an inspection of Vicksburg, and told me he had never seen so much fortification, and thought it a