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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 1 (search)
y the messenger in bringing me Colonel Jackson's note, and by Major Whiting in going to that officer's quarters from mine. This little affair is mentioned, only because what seems to me a very exaggerated account of it has been published. In Dabney's Life of Jackson. Governor Letcher had taken possession of Harper's Ferry as soon as possible, and had it occupied by a body of troops commanded by Colonel Kenton Harper--not soon enough, however, to prevent the destruction of the small-arms s, or as much of it as practicable. It was to be transported to the railroad at Strasburg, on the turnpike through Winchester. The orders of the Government required the destruction of all that could not be brought away. It has been said In Dabney's Life of Jackson. somewhat hastily, and I think harshlly, that those who had the power to seize and remove this property committed a gross blunder by failing to send it to Winchester by railroad from Harper's Ferry before the evacuation of tha
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 2 (search)
ates vessels-of-war, the heavy guns of which commanded the wooden bridges and southern shore. The Confederate army would have been two days in marching from Bull Run to the Federal intrenchments, with less than two days rations, or not more. Dabney's Life of Jackson. It is asserted that the country, teeming with grain and cattle, could have furnished food and forage in abundance. Those who make the assertion forget that a large Federal army had passed twice over the route in question. M, until we found it necessary to inter them. After the troops had been somewhat reorganized, new positions were assigned to them. Among the charges against me, is that of exposing the army at the same time to the stench of the battle-field, Dabney's Life of Jackson, p. 234. and the miasma of the August heat, and thus producing camp-fevers tenfold more fatal than the bullets of the enemy. Those who have seen large bodies of new troops know that they are sickly in all climates. Our South