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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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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 20: (search)
ce has been made to the anticipation of the commanding general, J. E. Johnston, that the enemy would soon advance to attack that position. Siand when the greater part of our army, under the command of General J. E. Johnston, was directed to move for the purpose of counteracting thiseneral McClellan, with his main army, was on the Peninsula, General J. E. Johnston was assigned to the command of the Department of the Peninsuder to resist the enemy's forces on the Peninsula. Though General J. E. Johnston did not agree with this decision, he did not ask to be relif Gloucester, but the idea was abandoned. On April 28th General J. E. Johnston wrote to Flag Officer Tatnall, commanding the naval forces he War, p. 324. By the following telegram sent by me to General J. E. Johnston, commanding at Yorktown, the contents of that which I had re readily inferred: Richmond, Virginia, May 1, 1862. General J. E. Johnston, Yorktown, Virginia. Accepting your conclusion that you
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 21: (search)
es the aggregate present for duty as 112,392; Report on the Conduct of the War, Part I, p. 322. that of June 20th —omitting the army corps of General Dix, then, as previously, stationed at Fortress Monroe, and including General McCall's division, which had recently joined, the strength of which was reported to be 9,514— gives the aggregate present for duty as 105,825, and the total, present and absent, as 156,838. Ibid., p. 337. Two statements of the strength of our army under General J. E. Johnston during the month of May—in which General McClellan testified that he was greatly in need of McDowell's corps—give the following results: first, the official return, May 21, 1862, total effective of all arms, 53,688; subsequently, five brigades were added, and the effective strength of the army under General Johnston on May 31, 1862, was 62,696. Four Years with General Lee, by Walter H. Taylor, p. 50. I now proceed to inquire what caused the panic at Washington. On May 23d, G
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 22: (search)
: Condition of affairs plan of General Johnston the battle at Seven Pines General JohnsGeneral Johnston wounded advance of General Sumner conflict on the right delay of General Huger reports of therate States, and remembering a remark of General Johnston, that the Spaniards were the only people ld about the time we had together visited General Johnston, I answered that McClellan should be atta had been his own opinion. He then said: General Johnston should of course advise you of what he exr here to say that I had not doubted that General Johnston was fully in accord with me as to the purshed in 1880, the evidence was found that General Johnston, when manner. Before I spoke to him, head in front of me; at the same time I saw General Johnston ride across the field from a house befored been under that impression himself, but General Johnston had assured him that it could be nothing ery in position. Soon after our arrival, General Johnston, who had gone farther to the right, where[1 more...]
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 23: (search)
the enemy forced back South of the Chickahominy abandonment of the Railroad. When riding from the field of battle with General Robert E. Lee on the previous day, I informed him that he would be assigned to the command of the army, vice General Johnston, wounded, and that he could make his preparations as soon as he reached his quarters, as I should send the order to him as soon as I arrived at mine. On the next morning, as above stated, he proceeded to the field and took command of the tred into conversation as to what, under the circumstances, I thought it most advisable to do. I then said to him, substantially, that I knew of nothing better than the plan he had previously explained to me, which was to have been executed by General Johnston, but which was not carried out; that the change of circumstances would make one modification necessary—that, instead, as then proposed, of bringing General A. P. Hill, with his division, on the rear flank of the enemy, it would, because of t
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 24: (search)
s Marshall, secretary and aidede-camp to General R. E. Lee, before the Virginia Division of the Army of Northern Virginia. In it Colonel Marshall quotes General J. E. Johnston as saying: General Lee did not attack the enemy until the 26th of June, because he was employed from the 1st until then in forming a great army by brito join General Lee. The brigade of General Branch had been detached at an earlier period; it was on duty near Hanover Junction, and under the command of General J. E. Johnston before the battle of Seven Pines. These facts are mentioned to account for the small size of General Holmes's division, which had been reduced to two briackson brought, they should be elsewhere subtracted. General J. A. Early, in the same number of the Historical Society Papers, in a letter addressed to General J. E. Johnston, February 4, 1875, makes an exhaustive examination from official reports, and applies various methods of computation to the question at issue. Among othe
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 27: (search)
Buchanan Resolves to attack the enemy Sinks the Cumberland Burns the Congress Executive officer Jones takes command appearance of the Monitor the Virginia attacks her cheers of English man-of-war importance of the Navy yard order of General Johnston to evacuate stores saved the Virginia burned harbor defenses at Wilmington harbor defenses at Charleston Fights in the harbor defenses of Savannah Mobile harbor and capture of its defenses sub-terra shells placed in James River; usedd the command of the channel between them essential to both. As long as the Virginia closed the entrance to the James River, and the entrenchment on the Peninsula was held, it was deemed possible to keep possession of Norfolk. On May 1st General Johnston, commanding on the Peninsula, having decided to retreat, sent an order to General Huger to evacuate Norfolk. The Secretary of War, General Randolph, having arrived just at that time in Norfolk, assumed the authority of postponing the execut
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 39: (search)
t Vicksburg the Canal concentration raid of Grierson attack near Port Gibson orders of General Johnston reply of General Pemberton Baker's Creek Big Black Bridge retreat to Vicksburg siege all the troops he could spare to strengthen General Bowen. A dispatch was also sent to General J. E. Johnston at Tullahoma, saying that the Army of Tennessee must be relied on to guard the approacheed reports show what early and consistent efforts he made to avoid that result. After General J. E. Johnston had recovered from the wound received at Seven Pines, he was on November 24, 1862, by spstake is a great one; I can see nothing so important. On May 12th he sent a telegram to General J. E. Johnston, and a duplicate to the President, announcing his purpose to meet the enemy then moving n the 4th. General Grant, in expectation that an attack in his rear would be made by General J. E. Johnston, formed a provisional corps by taking brigades from several corps, and assigned General
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 44: (search)
e my conviction on a trial, sought to find ample material to supply this deficiency, in the great mortality of the soldiers we had captured during the war and imprisoned at Andersonville. See chapter on exchange of prisoners. Orders were therefore issued by the authorities of the United States government to arrest a subaltern officer, Captain Henry Wirz, a foreigner by birth, poor, friendless, and wounded, and held as a prisoner of war. He had been included in the surrender of General J. E. Johnston. On May 7th he was placed in the Old Capitol prison at Washington. The poor man was doomed before he was heard, and the permission to be heard according to law was denied him. Captain Wirz had been in command at the Confederate prison at Andersonville. The first charge alleged against him was that of conspiring with myself, Secretary Seddon, General Howell Cobb, General Winder, and others, to cause the death of thousands of the prisoners through cruelty, etc. The second charge was
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 48: (search)
Chapter 48: Assignment of General J. E. Johnston to the command of the army of Tennessee condition of his army an offensive campaign suggested proposed objects to be accomplished advance of Sherman strength of the Confederate position General Johnston Expects General Sherman to give battle at Dalton the enemy's General Hardee's command the defenses of the city assault and capture of Fort McAlister Hardee Evacuates Savannah. On December 16, 1863, I directed General J. E. Johnston to transfer the command of the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana to Lieutenant General Polk, and repair to Dalton, Georgia, to assume command oed. General Johnston's belief that General Grant would be ready to assume the offensive before he could be prepared to do so, proved too well founded, General J. E. Johnston Map: operations in Georgia and South Carolina. while his purpose, if the Federal army did not attack, that we should prepare and take the initiative
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 51: (search)
ccord between General Lee and myself, but the Congress about this time thought his power would be increased by giving him the nominal dignity of general-in-chief, under which he resumed, as far as he could, the general charge of armies from which, at his urgent solicitation, I had relieved him after he took command, in the field, of the Army of Northern Virginia. A few days subsequent to the events in North Carolina to which reference has been made, General Lee proposed to me that General J. E. Johnston be put in command of the troops in North Carolina. He still had the confidence in that officer which I had once felt, but which his campaigns in Mississippi and Georgia had impaired. With the understanding that General Lee was himself to supervise and control the operations, I assented to the assignment. General Johnston, on February 23d at Charlotte, North Carolina, relieved General Beauregard and assumed command. General Lee's first instructions to General Johnston were to conc
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