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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 7: (search)
I was about to ascend to your quarters over my office, Captain E. P. Alexander, of your staff, informed me that Captain —, attached to General Johnston's Army of the Shenandoah, reported that he had been as far forward as Centreville, where he had seen the Federal army completely routed and in full flight toward Washington. This statement I at once repeated to Mr. Davis, General Johnston, and yourself, whom I found seated around your table—Mr. Davis at the moment writing a dispatch to General Cooper. As soon as I had made my report, Mr. Davis with much animation asserted the necessity for an urgent pursuit that night by Bonham, who, with his own brigade and that of Longstreet, was in close proximity to Centreville at the moment. So I took my seat at the same table with you, and wrote the order for pursuit, substantially at the dictation of Mr. Davis. But, while writing, either I happened to remember, or Captain Alexander himself—as I am inclined to believe—called me aside to r
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 11: (search)
ive thousand, but as yet I have no reliable information of their strength beyond the Potomac. Your most obedient servant, T. J. Jackson, Major-General, P. A. C. S. headquarters, Centreville, November 21, 1861. Respectfully forwarded. I submit that the troops under General Loring might render valuable services by taking the field with General Jackson, instead of going into winter-quarters, as now proposed. J. E. Johnston, General. headquarters, Centreville, November 22, 1861. General Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector-General. sir: I have received Major-General Jackson's plan of operations in his district, for which he asks for reenforcements. It seems to me that he proposes more than can well be accomplished in that high, mountainous country at this season. If the means of driving the enemy from Romney (preventing the reconstruction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and incursions by marauders into the counties of Jefferson, Berkeley, and Morgan) can be supplied to Gen