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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 3 (search)
were with victory, that old war-horse, General Joe Johnston, had relieved Beauregard at Charlotte, dsboro, his next plan was not to follow after Johnston, but open communication with Grant, so that that Lee would succeed in making junction with Johnston, with a fraction of his army, at least, somewlace he reached on April 13th, and found that Johnston had moved further on. Let us now leave Sheby Captain Webb, who was in command, from General Johnston, ordering that all trains north of the Rothe objective being, if possible, to join General Johnston at or near Raleigh. We marched about sixherman was in possession of Raleigh, and that Johnston was retiring before him towards Greensboro. ne, and armed as best we could, try to get to Johnston by passing around Sherman's rear. This chang informed us he had reliable information that Johnston had surrendered, and he had determined to senal Sherman to General Baker, stating that General Johnston had not surrendered, but that terms had b[4 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 9 (search)
mer of 1861 the company was ordered to Smithfield, Va., where the fall and winter months were spent without graver duties than occasional reconnoissances to and from Norfolk. McClellan's army was now near Washington, confronted by that of General Joe Johnston, while the public mind of the North was becoming very impatient at its inaction, and began to renew the cry of On to Richmond! which had been so popular before the inglorious defeat of the Federal army at Manassas. McClellan, unable to rs transferred his army to the Peninsular and sat down before Yorktown. It is estimated that McClellan at this time had an army of not less than one hundred and twenty thousand men fit for duty. This force was to be confronted and delayed until Johnston could arrive by thirteen thousand Confederates under General J. B. Magruder, who, in order to accomplish this purpose, was compelled to cover a front of thirteen miles with his small force. The work was done, and with consummate ability, and it
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), United Confederate Veterans. (search)
ty to, and sympathy for, the memory of the cause which we have organized to commemorate, and in which he bore a conspicuous part: 1. As an officer under Generals Joe Johnston and Lee in Virginia, and later under Generals Joe Johnston and Hood in the West, the United Confederate Veterans, in reunion assembled, do hereby express tGenerals Joe Johnston and Hood in the West, the United Confederate Veterans, in reunion assembled, do hereby express their deep sorrow at his death, acknowledge their irreparable loss in being denied his continued valuable service in a cause so near his and the hearts of us all, and their irrepressible regrets that the inscrutable decrees of an all-wise Providence have deprived them of the fond privilege of his courtly presence and wise counsels a Texas, for Lieutenant-General of the Trans-Mississippi Department, or Western Division, and he was elected. The Committee on Resolutions to the Memory of General Johnston, reported as follows: Resolved, That in commemoration of the decease of General Joseph E. Johnston this convention desires to place on record an expressio