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Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
in force March 30th, and subsistence was ordered to be collected at Jackson, Corinth and Iuka, and Grand Junction, Tenn. General Johnston reorganized at Murfreesboro what was left of the force lately at Bowling Green, with the remnants of Zollicoffer's command and those who had escaped from Fort Donelson, and assumed personal command. On February 23d, this reorganized central army included the Sixth infantry, Colonel Thornton; the Fifteenth, Major Brantley; the Twenty-second, Lieutenant-Colonel Schaller; the Second Confederate (25th Mississippi), Colonel Martin, and Hardcastle's battalion. Johnston moved the military stores saved from Nashville to Stevenson, and marched his men over the mud roads to Corinth. On March 29th he assumed command and immediate direction of the armies of Kentucky and of the Mississippi, now united and to be known as the army of the Mississippi. General Beauregard was appointed second in command; General Bragg was made chief of staff, and the army wa
The Daily Dispatch: June 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], A Review. (search)
was carried on the 5th September two days preceding the battle of Borodino. These are but small blemishes, it is true; but in as much as they indicate baste and carelessness in the translator, they call for the notice, of the press. We do not mean by any means to detract from the value of his original remarks. Some of them — especially those concerning the Confederate cavalry--deserve, and we hope will receive, the serious attention of the proper department.--Upon the whole we like Mr. Schaller much better in his character of author, than in his character of translator. He does ample justice to our Great Generals, Jackson and Johnston. But there is another still alive whose name is scarcely alluded to, and who, it seems to us, can be passed over in a book illustrative of Confederate glory, with fully as much propriety as Washington's name could be omitted in a history of the American Revolution, and not one bit more. We need not name the person to whom we allude. In the
The Daily Dispatch: September 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], Seventy dollars reward. (search)
inflicted in charging them, lied of course. The face of the country was very woody. How could Tariton charge there? We believe the excuse about the nature of the country to be utterly unfounded. An author whom we have quoted before--Colonel Schaller--pronounces it to be so in the following words: "No instances of what cavalry can do are necessary; history furnishes thousands of them; and if one would contend that the nature of the ground with us is such as to forbid anything like a charortion, at least, of these; and they the best riders, on the best horses. Do not make mounted infantry of all the cavalry force. Let every squadron have a certain number of mounted infantry, say forty, as Marmont advises in his book, which Colonel Schaller has translated expressly for the use of our army, and which has the seal of President Davis's approbation, and, we understand, of most other military men. Let the cavalry be made cavalry sure enough. We have very good officers; such as Hamp
The Daily Dispatch: September 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], Mutual Press Association. (search)
A contemporary traces the inefficiency of our cavalry to the degeneracy of the Southern breed of horses. There is much in that suggestion, no doubt, as there is also in that made by us yesterday, on the authority of Colonel Schaller, viz: that our men are not taught the use of the sabre, and are not enabled to take advantage of their superior horsemanship by the character of their drill. We remember the day when horses of high blood were common all over Virginia and the South, and when the horse rate was deemed the noblest of all sports. It is not so now. There are few blooded horses to be seen, and racing has been pronounced an abomination in places where it was wont to stand high in favor. The Yankee vulgarises everything he touches. The horse has become, in their hands, a mere beast of burden, like the donkey or the camel, and trotting races have been substituted for the genuine sports of the turf. We have not been slow to imitate, and the consequence has been that bloo