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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 342 4 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 333 11 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 292 10 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. 278 8 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 277 5 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 267 45 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 263 15 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 252 0 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 228 36 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 228 22 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.3 (search)
gnificent destiny placed before us and our children as one people, with one country and one flag, we accept the verdict of Fate and say: It is well R. E. Colston. The accomplished gentleman and soldier, the author of this address, is to-day stretched upon a bed of pain, where he faces the inroads of disease, and the approach of the last enemy, with a gentle chivalry and heroic firmness, which might put to the blush many a famous victory. In the service of Longstreet and Jackson, of Joseph E. Johnston and Robert E. Lee, he shared all that the New World can teach of battle and danger. In the service of the Khedive and in the deserts of Africa, he shared the suffering of the Old World, and now bears it as his cross. The injuries of earth have only taught forgiveness to his lips. From a crucified body comes only the message of good will to man; and the sermon of peace on earth is the legacy of his life of war. On no day more appropriately than Christmas day could this latest missive re
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Last days of the army of Northern Virginia. (search)
rkeville Junction. One of these things he was sure to do. Johnston's small army could do no more than impede Sherman's marche only hope was to leave the Petersburg lines, unite with Johnston, and strike a decisive blow at Sherman before Grant couldassage of the Confederate column South on its way to join Johnston's army near Greensboro. He resolved to attack Grant's liive him back. Pickett's division was about 3,600 strong; Johnston's, 3,000; the cavalry of the two Lee's, about 4,000—makinachievement. They did not doubt that he would unite with Johnston and destroy Sherman and then turn on Grant; or else take bly not have been altered if Lee had made a junction with Johnston, it is certain if there had been food to sustain the bodirendered arms, etc., were received, except in the case of Johnston's army to General Sherman. Ordnance Office, War Departmenss, and his ability to either capture the city or destroy Johnston's army was doubted, while few thought he could long maint
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The first Virginia infantry in the Peninsula campaign. (search)
la a few preliminary remarks may not be amiss. After the battle of Bull Run Johnston's army remained inactive in front of Washington. Instead of gaining in number details and discharges for the War Department. It cannot be denied that both Johnston and Beauregard urged the Confederate authorities to concentrate the whole Confte Government. In March, 1862, the Northern army was in readiness to move. Johnston, unable to oppose the overwhelming numbers, did the best he could under the ciy on the morning of the 17th. During our halt near the wharf I saw General Joseph E. Johnston. He was talking to a wounded soldier lying on a stretcher. The remae fortunes, or rather the misfortunes, of the Confederacy. The fears of General Johnston that this line could not be held now became more and more apparent. The end, so, after everything had been carefully prepared by General McClellan, General Johnston concluded it best and safest to retire to the capital of the South, then c
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memorial address (search)
f the late war a Federal soldier wrote to General Joseph E. Johnston asking the name of a Confederate officer e only mark of distinction which he could give General Johnston was that he thought the officer rode a white horse. General Johnston replied that he supposed the officer referred to must have been General D. H. Hill. In writing to General Hill about the matter, General Johnston said: I drew my conclusion that your horse might d would be ordered to report forthwith to General Joseph E. Johnston, near Vicksburg, Mississippi. Orders havas Lieutenant-General, and the repeated efforts of Johnston, backed by many of his subordinates, to have Hill f a corps, were refused up to the last campaign of Johnston in North Carolina. In response to repeated demandnor of Mississippi.) Long after the war General J. E. Johnston addressed the following letter to General Hsignment to a vacancy. * * Yours very truly, J. E. Johnston. It is but just to President Davis, as well
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.12 (search)
on of Confederate troops near Bayou Pierre under General Bowan, and marched a compact army of 50,000 men to Jackson, fifty miles east of Vicksburg, defeated and drove off about 6,000 men collected there to reinforce General Pemberton, under General Johnston, destroyed the railrords, and then turned and marched directly towards Vicksburg. General Pemberton only had the garrison of Vicksburg to operate against Grant after he crossed. He could only take 20,000 effectives out of the city to fightding the city with a sheet of bayonets and fire. In the doomed city were 17,000 effective Confederate—troops, every man being in the trenches and at the guns, with one small reserve brigade to move from one endangered point to the other. General Johnston was at Jackson, fifty miles off, slowly collecting a small army of 25,000 men from Confederate armies pressed elsewhere, with which he hoped to relieve Pemberton, but which he knew he could not do. His force and Pemberton's, could they have
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Joseph E. Johnston's campaign in Georgia. (search)
General Joseph E. Johnston's campaign in Georgia. Some letters written by him that have never before been published. Lieutenant-General Leonidas Polk at Cassville. The recent appearance of Hughes' Life of General Joseph E. Johnston, and the announcement of the placing in the hands of the printers of a Life of General Leonidas Polk, by his son, Dr. William Polk, were the subject of aacy. That where he failed, I could not be expected to succeed. Yours truly, [Signed] J. E. Johnston. To Charles G. Johnson, Esq. Savannah, Ga., June 19, 1874. Charles G. Johnson, Esq: l the next morning, when they were entrenched, would have been stupid. Very truly yours, J. E. Johnston. Savannah, Ga., June 30, 1875. To J A. .Chalaron, Esq., Chairman, etc.: my Dear Sir—Y thanking you earnestly for the very agreeable terms of your letter, I am very truly yours, J. E. Johnston. Can you send me a copy of Captain Johnson's account of the capture of the Federal fort
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.27 (search)
ed to serve, or in whose favor he wished to retire from military service, that his alternative was his own supremacy in the department assigned to him. He wanted Albert Sydney Johnston, and Davis sent him Beauregard. He urged the merits of Joseph E. Johnston, and was saddled with Bragg. Beauregard came upon him as a sort of calamity after the battle of Belmont, Missouri, and after he had industriously fortified Columbus, Kentucky. It is easy to read in Polk's letter, as given in these volumetterly useless. The elder Polk himself described Bragg's conduct as weak, and added an epigram—he had a taste for neat phrases—to the effect that there were times when weakness was wickedness. Subsequently, his wish for the appointment of Joseph E. Johnston as commander was gratified. But the possibility of retrieving past errors or misfortunes had gone by, and in the last scene of all, when Polk fell on Kenesaw, the manner of his death was such as he might have deliberately sought. Consciou
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Appomattox Courthouse. (search)
l to which the British commander felt himself unequal. But General Lee was made of different stuff. Trying to reach Johnston. In giving a detailed story of the surrender of Lee and of preceding events, Colonel Marshall said: The ConfederaCourthouse, through Pittsylvania county, toward Danville, with a view of opening communication with the army of General Joseph E. Johnston, then retreating before General Sherman through North Carolina. General Lee's purpose was to unite with GeneralGeneral Johnston to attack Sherman, or call Johnston to his aid in resisting Grant, whichever might be found best. The exhausted troops were halted for rest on the evening of the 8th of April, near Appomattox Courthouse, and the march was ordered to be resJohnston to his aid in resisting Grant, whichever might be found best. The exhausted troops were halted for rest on the evening of the 8th of April, near Appomattox Courthouse, and the march was ordered to be resumed at one o'clock A. M. I can convey a good idea of the condition of affairs by telling my own experience. Sleeping on the ground. When the army halted on the night of the 8th, General Lee and his staff turned out of the road into a dense woo
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Strategic points. (search)
back upon the reserves and precipitated the indecisive battle, 18th of July, 1861. Pausing then, McDowell took advantage of his information to study the situation and plan accordingly. Beauregard, finding his force inadequate, appealed to Johnston, then at Winchester, for assistance. His prompt response is too well known to detail here; how Bee and Bartow died; how Kirby Smith, coming into line almost on the run upon McDowell's flank, and Jackson standing like a stone wall, snatched victthe terrific battle fought on these fields demonstrated their value as strategic points. Less only in the number of troops engaged, Winchester, in the lower Valley, became conspicuous in Confederate annals as a strategic point. Early in 1861 Johnston recognized its value and so held it. Later Jackson made a vigorous attack on Shields at Kernstown for its recovery, but for paucity of numbers and exhaustion of his troops from rapid and severe marching would have wrested it from Federal grasp.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
; his religious traits, 120. Hobart, Pasha, 264. Hoge, D. D., Rev. M. D, 264. Hoke, Last Address of General R. F., 297. Hood's Texas Brigade, 316. Howlett House, Capture of, 177. Hudgin, Captain, 179. Hughes, R M, his Life of J. E. Johnston, 314. Humphreys, cited, General, 61. Indian Poll Bridge, 327 Jackson, Major C. L., 304. Jackson, Gen. T J.; his system of combine, 38, 118; a Ride for him, 206; his widow described, 340. Jackson, Mrs. T. J., 340. Jackson and Lee, Characters of, 23. Jericho Ford, 318. Johnson, Gen., Edward, 239, 372. Johnston, Gen. J. E., 148; his campaign in Georgia, 314, 325, 354. Johnston, Capt. C. S. Navy, J. W., 291. Jones, M. D, Ll. D , Joseph, 1. Jones, Major-Gen., Sam., 303. Jones, Gov. T. G., 57. Jones, Wm. Ellis, wounded, 372. Kane, Dr G A., 214, Kane. Capt. Thos L, 302 Keelin, James, 295. King's Mountain, Battle of, 113. Lamb, Col. Wm., his defence of Fort Fisher, 257; mentioned, 327. Lamb, Mrs