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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 10: (search)
s failure further operations winter quarters Lee sent to South Carolina. In June, 1861, Brigaory to be gained or the ease to be enjoyed, but Lee made no question as to personal preference, andnce, and a full conference with General Loring, Lee decided to attack the main encampment of the enassault, and he was assigned to that duty. General Lee ordered other portions of his force to taker a toilsome night march, the force led by General Lee, wet, weary, hungry, and cold, gained their firing a musket. The height occupied by General Lee was shrouded in fog, and as morning had dawColonel John A. Washington, aide-de-camp of General Lee, was killed while making a reconnaissance, were advancing upon Wise and Floyd caused General Lee to move at once to their support. He found who advanced and took position in sight of General Lee's entrenched camp, and, having remained theand. With the close of active operations General Lee returned to Richmond, and though subjected [3 more...]
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 11: (search)
ble machine, a disciplined army, must be made of men who had surrendered their freedom of will. The most distinguished of our citizens were not the slowest to learn the lessons, and perhaps no army ever more thoroughly knew it than did that which Lee led into Pennsylvania, and none ever had a leader who in his own conduct better illustrated the lesson. Our largest army in 1861 was that of the Potomac. It had been formed by the junction of the forces under General J. E. Johnston with those and that these and other like things were not done, was surely due to other causes than the policy of the Administration, as will appear by the letters hereto annexed: Richmond, Virginia, August 1, 1861. General J. E. Johnston: . . . General Lee has gone to western Virginia, and I hope may be able to strike a decisive blow in that quarter, or, failing in that, will be able to organize and post our troops so as to check the enemy, after which he will return to this place. The movem