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cuperation. (Signed) R. L. Brodie, P. A.F. S. Sam. Choppin. These facts were telegraphed to the President at once by General Bragg. Soon after Mr. Davis sent him another telegram, renewing the order, and expressing his surprise that he should have hesitated to obey, when the original order stated the necessity is urgent and abso/ue. Before this second telegram was received by General Bragg, General Beauregard had transferred the command of the army to him, and had departed for Bladen Springs. General Bragg thus describes the subsequent proceedings: Prepared to move, I telegraphed back to the President that the altered conditions induced me to await orders. In reply to this I was immediately notified by telegraph of my assignment to permanent command of the army. The telegram read as follows: Richmond, June 20, 1862. General Braxton Bragg, Tupelo, Miss. Your despatch informing me that General Beauregard had turned over the command to you and left for Mobile on s
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 11: operations in Southern Tennessee and Northern Mississippi and Alabama. (search)
captured and paroled 2,000 sick and convalescent soldiers, whom he found in a very suffering condition. The siege of Corinth. Beauregard collected his scattered troops at Tupelo, on a tributary of the Tombig-bee, in a strong position, and on the 13th of June reported to Headquarters at Richmond that he was doing all practicable to organize for defensive operations. He soon afterward turned over his army temporarily to General Bragg, and sought repose and health for a few days at Bladen Springs, in Alabama. Jefferson Davis, whose will was law in the Confederacy, on hearing of this, directed Bragg, his favorite, to take permanent command of that army, and he passionately declared that Beauregard should not be reinstated, though all the world should urge him to the measure. Notes of an interview of a Congressional Committee with Davis, who requested the restoration of Beauregard, cited by General Jordan, in Harper's Magazine, XXXI., 616. While Beauregard was at Bladen, he wr
d expect much from you. Jefferson Davis. On the 22d of June General Bragg ordered to Vicksburg the first reinforcements, six thousand of Breckinridge's corps. On the 26th Van Dorn, who was left in command of Beauregard's army, removed his headquarters to Vicksburg, only to be immediately superseded by Bragg, who was in command of the department. On the 1st of June, Beauregard with all his army was in full retreat from Corinth. On the 17th, he abandoned his command and went to Bladen Springs, near Mobile, sick. Davis seems to have found some fault with Beauregard for retreating, but Beauregard says, it was a brilliant and successful retreat, which is about as good as a retreat can be. Halleck had an army before Corinth, on June 1, of ninety-five thousand men for duty. On the same day, Beauregard's command, covering the Army of the Mississippi, and the Army of the Department of the West, and some troops staying at Columbus, Mississippi, amounted in all to fifty-four thou
General Beauregard and the black Flag.--It was stated by Governor Letcher, in a speech at Danville, that Stonewall Jackson was in favor of the black fla g. It appears, from the following private letter written by General Beauregard while recruiting his health at Bladen Springs, Alabama, after the retreat from Corinth, that he coincided in opinion with General Jackson. We find the letter in The Columbia Guardian, which obtained the writer's permission to publish it: Bladen, Ala., Aug. 8, 1862. my dear General: I regret much to hear of----being wounded. I hope he will soon be able to face the Abolitionists. In this contest we must triumph or perish; and the sooner we make up our minds to it, the better. We now understand the hypocritical cry of Union and the Constitution, which means, and always did mean, spoliation and murder. We will yet have to come to proclaiming this war a war to the knife, when no quarter will be asked or granted. I believe it is the only thing w
rest and recreation. R. L. Brodie, Surgeon, P. A. C. S. Sam Choppin, Surgeon, P. A. C. S. These facts were telegraphed to me at once by General Bragg. Soon after, I sent a second dispatch to him, renewing the order and expressing my surprise that he should have hesitated to obey, when the original order stated the necessity is urgent and absolute. Before this second dispatch was received by General Bragg, General Beauregard had transferred the command to him, and had departed for Bladen Springs. General Bragg thus describes the subsequent proceedings: Prepared to move, I telegraphed back to the President that the altered conditions induced me to await his further orders. In reply to this, I was immediately notified by telegraph of my assignment to the permanent command of the army, and was directed to send General Van Dorn to execute my first instructions. From this statement it appears—1. That General Beauregard was not, as has been alleged, harshly deprived of his c
e colonel of the regiment, with R. D. Dwyer lieutenant-colonel and P. S. Senteney major. At Tupelo General Price's division was reviewed by Generals Hardee and Bragg, and the men complimented on their soldierly bearing and the record they had made on the field. When General Beauregard evacuated Corinth General Halleck did not follow him, and gradually the different commands that had constituted his army were sent to other fields of operation. In August General Beauregard was sick at Bladen Springs, Generals Polk and Hardee were operating under General Bragg from Chattanooga as a center, General Van Dorn had been given a department embracing Vicksburg and Baton Rouge, General Breckinridge had been sent to reinforce him, and General Price was left in command in northern Mississippi. His orders were to watch the Federal army at Corinth under Grant, to oppose him in any movement he might make down the Mississippi, and if he attempted to join Buell in Tennessee to hinder him and move
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.24 (search)
satisfied that you are the officer who rode the gray horse. Such a testimonial from an enemy must be very gratifying to you and your friends, and I trust you will be spared to impress many more such Yankee colonels with the prowess of the gray horse's rider. Fully concurring, on this one point concerning the battle of Drainesville, with Colonel Kane, I am, Most respectfully and truly yours, J. E. B. Stuart, Brigadier-General. Major Jackson lost his life in an engagement at Bladen Springs, Ala., and in 1863 his obituary, written by General Dabney H. Maury, tells his heroic deeds. The original autograph copy is pasted side by side with these noble testimonials in Mrs. Ogden's scrapbook. Like him, the other actors in this pretty side drama of the Confederacy, have joined the hosts in the eternal camping grounds, but these letters remain as a refreshing insight into the private camp life of the great Civil War, and an evidence of the individual generosity which actuated a
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the naval war. (search)
id nothing but leisurely reap the advantages which the sanguinary encounters of the 7th and 8th of April had secured to the Federals through Grant's tenacity and the opportune arrival of Buell. This was the only time that he commanded in person; a month later he was called to Washington to assume the chief direction of the war. His opponent, Beauregard, also left the army he had commanded; but it was in disgrace. His army being once established at Tupelo, he had gone to rest himself at Bladen Springs, leaving Bragg temporarily in command, when Jefferson Davis availed himself of his absence to depose him. The actions of this general did not certainly correspond with the arrogant assumptions contained in his proclamations. The premature reputation which, in a moment of enthusiasm, had been attributed to the conqueror of Fort Sumter, had ruined him, as is generally the case with men whose genius has been vaunted before being tried; he had, however, exhibited some sterling and solid qu
Murder. --A letter from White's Creek, Bladen county, N. C., on the 25thinst., says that a child was murdered at Bladen Springs, in that county, on Sunday last, 24thinst. The child was the daughter of Mr. A. Colum, aged about 9 years. The deed was committed about 200 yards from its father's house. The murderer is believed to be a negro girl.