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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., McDowell's advance to Bull Run. (search)
e there and future operations. Please inform Johnston of this via Staunton, and also Holmes. Send roops, and is next to fatal with raw levies. Johnston chose the wiser course of moving by rail to Mishes of the General-in-Chief, in keeping General Johnston's force at Winchester. At the very hour that Patterson was writing this dispatch Johnston's advance was leaving Winchester. On the 18th Johot relieve the authorities from the fear that Johnston might rush down and seize Washington. Generak, difficult if not impossible, of preventing Johnston from moving on the capital and from joining Be of battle with his and Bartow's brigades of Johnston's army on the Henry house plateau, a strongerunder cover of Stonewall Jackson's brigade of Johnston's army. The Sudley Springs road, looking ut the heavy firing on the left soon diverted Johnston and Beauregard from all thought of an offensi as Beauregard put into action reserves which Johnston sent from the right and reenforcements which [21 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Incidents of the first Bull Run. (search)
his arrival at Winchester [see page 124], General Johnston was ceaseless in his labors to improve th commanders were assembled in a room with General Johnston, and a conference of one or two hours wasneral Beauregard. He repeated a telegram General Johnston had received from Adjutant-General Cooperformed me of the disposition of our troops of Johnston's army so far as they had arrived at Manassasde, marching by the flank at a double-quick. Johnston and Beauregard had arrived upon the field, an made a colonel and chief of artillery to General Johnston, which separated him from the Rockbridge battery. Nearing the Lewis house, we saw General Johnston and his staff coming toward us slowly, pruregard did not follow on to Washington. General Johnston, in his Narrative, has clearly and concluTo ascertain the exact facts of the case, General Johnston organized a board of officers to investigplies for such an emergency as arose when General Johnston brought his army from the valley, but tha[7 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Responsibilities of the first Bull Run. (search)
of Major Whiting to General Johnston, and General Johnston's letter (probably referred to as the indich army, whether Beauregard's at Manassas or Johnston's in the Valley, should be reinforced by the rly the enemy's purpose, that you ordered General Johnston, with his effective force, to march at one of these events, says: During the 20th, General Johnston arrived at Manassas Junction by the railrthe 22d, I held a second conference with Generals Johnston and Beauregard. I was in no conference e in a publication made by me in 1874, See Johnston's narrative (New York: D. Appleton & Co.), pp W. Smith's memorandum of the discussion: General Johnston said that he did not feel at liberty to e In The Century magazine for May, 1885, General Johnston, to support his assertion, quoted statemeeturned to that of the whole field. And in Johnston's narrative, published in 1874, it is expressort states the circumstance thus: I urged General Johnston to leave the immediate conduct of the fie[14 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The first year of the War in Missouri. (search)
ct, if it was a defect, was converted into a charm by the martial aspect of his mustache and imperial, and by an exuberant growth of brownish hair. Quitting the United States army when Mississippi seceded, he first entered her service, and was afterward appointed to that of the Confederacy and placed in command of Texas. Transferred thence to Virginia in September, 1861, he was commissioned major-general and ordered to report to General J. E. Johnston, commanding the Army of the Potomac. Johnston ordered him to Beauregard, and Beauregard assigned him to the command of a division, October 4th, 1861. He was assigned to the command of the Trans-Mississippi District, January 10th, 1862. We Missourians were delighted; for he was known to be a fighting man, and we felt sure he would help us to regain our State. I explained to him the condition of affairs in Missouri, and General Price's views. Van Dorn had already decided upon a plan of campaign, and in execution of it ordered Gene