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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Hardee and the Military operations around Atlanta. (search)
was known so fully to possess. The assignment of General Hardee to an independent and important command, which was simultaneous with his being relieved from duty with the Army of Tennessee, sufficiently evinces that my confidence in him had not been impaired; and his conduct in that separate command fully justified the opinion I continued to entertain. In this connection, it may be appropriate to furnish you with an extract from a letter written by me to General Beauregard on the 4th February, 1865--a period late in the course of the campaign through Eastern Georgia and South Carolina, and long after the events to which you refer: You will assume command of all the forces in the district as defined before your departure to the west; and should you deem it advisable, will direct General Hardee to assume the command of his old corps when it arrives, and add to it any other forces which may be advantageously associated with it. Thus it appears that in the hour of our direst need, I