Browsing named entities in J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary. You can also browse the collection for December 6th, 1864 AD or search for December 6th, 1864 AD in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 47 (search)
inia from his fruitless North Carolina expedition. It is supposed we shall have active operations again before this city as soon as the weather and roads will permit. But it really does seem that the States respectively mean to take control of all their men not now in the Confederate States armies, and I apprehend we shall soon have confusion worse confounded. The President sends, for his information, to the Secretary of War, a letter from Gen. Beauregard, dated at Augusta, Ga., Dec. 6th, 1864, in relation to Gen. Sherman's movement eastward, and Gen. Hood's Middle Tennessee campaign. It appears from Gen. B.'s letter to the President that he (Gen. B.) had control of everything. He says he did not countermand Gen. Hood's campaign, because Sherman had 275 miles the start, and the roads were impracticable in Northern Georgia and Alabama. But he telegraphed the Governors of Alabama, Georgia, etc., to concentrate troops rapidly in Sherman's front, ordered a brigade of cavalry fr