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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 865 67 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 231 31 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 175 45 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 153 9 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 139 19 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 122 6 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 91 7 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 89 3 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 88 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 55 5 Browse Search
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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 12: (search)
Chapter 12: General character of the military events of the year 1862. the Confederate situation in Kentucky. Gen. A. S. Johnston's command and position. battle of Fishing Creek. the Confederate right in Kentucky. Gen. Crittenden's command in extreme straits. difficulty in subsisting it. the decision to give battle to the enemy. Zollicoffer's brigade. the contested hill. death of Zollicoffer. defeat of the Confederates. Crittenden crosses the Cumberland. his losses.Impms which you propose. The fall of Fort Donelson was the heaviest blow that had yet fallen on the Confederacy. It opened the whole of West Tennessee to Federal occupation, and it developed the crisis which had long existed in the West. Gen. A. S. Johnston had previously ordered the evacuation of Bowling Green; and the movement was executed while the battle was being fought at Donelson. Gen. Johnston awaited the result of the battle opposite Nashville. At dawn of the 16th of February he re
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 22: (search)
ally were, and a pleasant delusion was maintained, until some occasion would bring out official figures, and shock the public with surprise Who would have supposed, until Beauregard's official figures were published, that the army of the First Manassas numbered less than thirty thousand men, and that five Confederate regiments on that field held in check, for two hours, a column of fifteen thousand Federal infantry? Who would have imagined, looking at the newspapers of the day, that Albert Sidney Johnston, who was popularly expected, in the first year of the war, to take Cincinnati, and to march to the Northern Lakes, never had more than twenty-odd thousand men to meet all the emergencies of the early campaign in Kentucky and Tennessee? Who would have believed, unless on the official authority of the great Confederate Chieftain himself, that Gen. Lee whipped the finest army on the planet, under Hooker, with less than one-third his force? These are matters of official history, and st
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 23: (search)
Confederate forces. evacuation of Jackson. Johnston offers a second opportunity of attack to Pemb to secure the safety of the place. Before Johnston's arrival at Jackson, Grant, as we have seen,icksburg Railroad. On reaching Jackson, Gen. Johnston found there the brigades of Gregg and Walkn, between Edwards's Depot and ourselves. Gen. Johnston was aware that reinforcements were on theielf further from Vicksburg. When he received Johnston's order to march on Sherman's rear at Clintonmond, a courier handed him a despatch from Gen. Johnston, stating that, as the attack on Sherman hat and effect a junction with the forces of Gen. Johnston in the neighbourhood of Jackson. He succend the lines of the enemy drawn around it. Gen. Johnston so regarded it. When he learned of the dis a despatch was received from Pemberton by Gen. Johnston, suggesting that the latter should make tode to enable him to cut his way out, and that Johnston hoped to attack the enemy about the 7th. O[32 more...]