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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
y General Bragg's report. (cavalry), the strength of which I do not know.... In a telegram to Mr. Seddon (Secretary of War), dated June 2d, I said: Your letter of the 25th, and a telegram from the Prsent force we cannot succeed, without great blunders by the enemy. In a telegram of the 3d, Mr. Seddon explained his estimate of my force; asked what his mistake was; expressed great anxiety concersion of the Mississippi. Can you collect here a force sufficient to defeat this object? In Mr. Seddon's next dispatch, dated June 5th, he said: .... I regret my inability to promise more troops, aare much greater than those you express (two to one). I consider saving Vicksburg hopeless. Mr. Seddon replied on the 16th: Your telegram grieves and alarms me. Vicksburg must not be lost without arant. I will do all I can, without hope of doing more than aid to extricate the garrison. Mr. Seddon rejoined on the 21st: Consequences are realized and difficulties recognized as being very grea
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
strengthen its weak points, which were indicated. This was made, dated November 10th; and, after General Pemberton had read my report in the war office, he asked and obtained permission to offer a second supplemental one. This is explained by Mr. Seddon, in a letter published with the reports, thus:. After seeing the report of General Johnston, General Pemberton considered his reply to that letter (Mr. Seddon's of October 1st) as not so fully elucidating the points of inquiry as the additionalMr. Seddon's of October 1st) as not so fully elucidating the points of inquiry as the additional details presented by General Johnston rendered appropriate and necessary. He therefore asked the privilege of making a further reply, which, in justice to himself (the honorable Secretary naively adds), was accorded. The additional comments upon my conduct thus published, with no opportunity on my part for defense, are almost as long as my whole report. The facts that the Administration, after reading General Pemberton's report, desired him to strengthen his case in a manner which it pointe
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 9 (search)
condition of the army. General Hardee ordered to Mississippi to repel General Sherman's advance. movements of the enemy in our front. dispositions to meet them. General Hardee and his troops return to Dalton. correspondence with General Bragg. effective strength of the army of Tennessee. advance of General Sherman. I found in Dalton a part of the instructions promised me by the President in his telegram of the 18th of December, in the following letter from the Secretary of War, Mr. Seddon, dated the 20th: General: You have been instructed by the President to proceed to Dalton and take command of the army now under the charge of Lieutenant-General Hardee. You were also informed that you would there receive fuller instructions. Such I now aim, in behalf of this department, to communicate. It is apprehended the army may have been, by recent events, somewhat disheartened, and deprived of ordnance and material. Your presence, it is hoped, will do much to reestablish h
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 10 (search)
seless in Mississippi, but a valuable addition to the Army of Tennessee. But of these matters you are much better informed than I. General Bragg replied on the 4th of March: General: In reply to yours of the 27th ult., just received, I hasten to inform you that your inference from the letters of the President and Secretary of War is correct and you are desired to have all things in readiness at the earliest practicable moment for the movement indicated. Under rules established by Mr. Seddon, I had no authority to do so. It is hoped but little time will be required to prepare the force now under your command, as the season is at hand, and the time seems propitious. Such additional forces will be ordered to you as the exigencies of the service elsewhere will permit, and it is hoped your own efforts will secure many absentees and extra-duty men to the ranks. The deficiency you report in artillery-horses seems very large, and so different from the account given by Genera
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Letters. (search)
on, had Stevenson's division been promptly sustained, his troops would have deported themselves gallantly and creditably. I have received no explanation of the extraordinary failure of General Loring to comply with my reiterated orders to attack, and I do feel assured that my orders were received by him. Hoping, sir, that these explanations may be satisfactory, I am, with respect, your obedient servant, J. C. Pemberton, Lieutenant-General commanding. Richmond, December 14, 1863. Hon. James A. Seddon, Secretary of War. Sir: Having been allowed the opportunity of reading General J. E. Johnston's report of the military operations in the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana during the months of May, June, and July last, in justice to myself I request to be permitted to make the following additional report: The first order from General Johnston, dated at Jackson, the 13th of May, was received by me near Bovina, on the morning of the 14th, I think, between nine and ten o'clo