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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Last letters and telegrams of the Confederacy—Correspondence of General John C. Breckinridge. (search)
ney all in Confed paper, and very limited. B. B. Chester, 27 April. Gen. York,—Forward following dispatch by courier to Gen'l Breckinridge. （Sig.) Wm. Preston Johnston. Hon. J. C. Breckinridge, Company Shops,—Some time ago I notified Gen'l Johnston not to include me in any surrender. You gave me orders to move on (2Gen'l Johnston not to include me in any surrender. You gave me orders to move on (25th). In return I find army surrendered. Think I am free. What is your decision? Answer here and Greensboro. Wade Hampton, Lt. General This is in my father's hand-writing: C. R. B. Love's Ford, Broad River, April 28th, 1865. Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton, Greensboro, Lexington, Salisbury, or any other point on line,—Your dispatches of 27th rec'd. The verbal directions to you contemplated your meeting Gen. Johnston, and his action before any convention with enemy. If my letter to him of 25th, which you carried, was not rec'd before completion of terms, the Gov't, with its imperfect knowledge of the facts, cannot interfere as to the body of the troops; bu
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of General John Bankhead Magruder. (search)
ire with loss. His force being evidently inadequate for the permanent maintenance of his position, strong reenforcements were ordered to his assistance, and General Johnston was directed to assume command of the Peninsula. Magruder, in his report, says that with twenty-five thousand men he could have held his position. Judging uder's name is a matter of surprise, when reference is made to the Peninsula campaign. After General Magruder had resigned the command of the Peninsula to General Johnston, he exhibited the same patriotic zeal as division commander that had characterized him while exercising an independent command. His division, which was traie had just assumed the command of the Army of Northern Virginia, and was occupied in the selection of a defensive line. The position that had been chosen by General Johnston with but slight alteration was adopted, and Magruder retained that position that had been previously occupied by his division, that being the one of greatest
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The battle of Chickamauga. (search)
l Sherman's charges, and utterly at variance with some of Mr. Stephens's published opinions concerning Mr. Davis. General Sherman has not yet produced the letter which he claims to have seen, and he cannot produce any evidence to substantiate his slander. Another of General Sherman's recent slanders is his charging General Albert Sidney Johnston with a conspiracy to turn over to the Confederacy the troops he commanded on the Pacific Coast at the breaking out of the war. Colonel William Preston Johnston (the gallant and accomplished son of the great soldier and stainless gentleman) promptly branded this statement as false, and its author as a slanderer. General Sherman's own witness failed him, and, indeed, gave strong testimony against him, and he was forced to admit that he was, in this case, mistaken. But we need go into no further details. If our readers will recall what we have published concerning General Sherman's connection with the burning of Columbia, and the con
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Editorial paragraph. (search)
fame of his distinguished father and grandfather, he brings out clearly the times in which they lived, pictures the men with whom they came in contact, and describes the great measures of State and Federal policy with which they were connected. We cordially commend the book as one which should be in every library. Fifty years observations of men and events—civil and military. by General E. D. Keys. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884. The publishers have sent us (through West & Johnston, Richmond) this exceedingly entertaining narrative of a gallant and distinguished soldier who has shown that he can wield the pen with as much facility as the sword. It is a gossipy, interesting book about men and things, and while we cannot, of course, accept all of the author's opinions, yet we are pleased with the kindly tone in which he speaks of many of our Confederate leaders. E. g., he says of Stonewall Jackson: The conduct of Jackson's campaign, in 1862, between Harpers Ferry