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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
tions, and certainly as much so with fairness. Repeated calls for this paper by Congress, to complete the published correspondence, were unnoticed by the Executive. This fact gave me the impression, at the time, that my defense must have been regarded as in some degree effective by those who thus prevented its publication. As the charges so published were extensively circulated, I take this occasion to defend myself, and to present the case fairly by giving both letters. Richmond, July 15, 1863. General: I. Your dispatch of the 5th instant, stating that you considered your assignment to the immediate command in Mississippi as giving you a new position and as limiting your authority, being a repetition of a statement which you were informed was a grave error, and being persisted in after your failure to point out, when requested, the letter or dispatch justifying you in such a conclusion, rendered it necessary, as you were informed in my dispatch of 8th instant, that I sh
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Telegrams. (search)
y risking the army. But it is difficult to yield this vital point without a struggle. In afternoon of 11th the enemy extended his right to Pearl River. J. E. Johnston. Jackson, July 14, 1863. To his Excellency President Davis: We learn from Vicksburg that a large force lately left that place to turn us on the north. This will compel us to abandon Jackson. The troops before us have been intrenching, and erecting batteries ever since their arrival. J. E. Johnston. Jackson, July 15, 1863. To President Davis: The enemy will not attack, but has intrenched. Is evidently making a siege, which we cannot resist. It would be madness to attack him. In the beginning it might have been done. But I thought then that want of water would compel him to attack us. It is reported by some of its officers who were here yesterday, and by some gentlemen of Brandon, that the Vicksburg garrison is diminishing rapidly. Incessant but slight cannonading kept up; our loss, in killed and wo