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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 6 (search)
ved at Tupelo-outnumbered greatly, however, by the Federal forces in and near Nashville, commanded by Major-General Rosecrans. Lieutenant-General Pemberton, recentlye prepared to take advantage of it, and on the 26th1 of December marched from Nashville toward Murfreesboroa. On his approach this movement was promptly reported toes in line of battle within sight. These lines were at right angles to the Nashville road. The Federal left rested on Stone's River. The Confederate right, Breco drive the Federal right and centre behind their left and to the east of the Nashville road, and seize that line of retreat; and that of Major-General Rosecrans, toications. After burning the railroad-bridge over Mill Creek, nine miles from Nashville, he went on to the Cumberland and captured there four loaded transports, threstroyed a great quantity of provisions in wagons, ready for transportation to Nashville. While inspecting the defenses of Mobile on the 22d of January, I receive
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
agg, in that connection, the expediency of adding General Roddy's brigade, belonging to his department, and then near Tuscumbia, to Major-General Lee's detachment. That officer was instructed to make the expedition as soon as possible, and to select from it about twenty-five hundred of the best cavalry in Northern Mississippi, and his most effective battery, to march by the route on which he would be most likely to escape the observation of the enemy, to the points on the railroad from Nashville to Chattanooga, where most injury could be done to it with least exposure of his troops; and to order Chalmers's brigade to attack the Federal troops stationed along the Mississippi & Charleston Railroad a day or two before his movement began. Captain Henderson, who directed the service of our scouts, reported that a part of Sherman's (Fifteenth) corps was at Memphis at this time, on its way to join the United States army at Chattanooga. On the 10th of October, Brigadier-General Ch
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 10 (search)
attanooga for support, and both are entirely dependent on regular and rapid communication with Nashville. To separate these two by interposing our main force, and then strike and destroy the railroad from Nashville to Chattanooga, fulfills both conditions. To accomplish this, it is proposed that you move as soon as your means and force can be collected, so as to reach the Tennessee River nIf by a rapid movement, after crossing the mountains, you can precipitate your main force upon Nashville, and capture that place before the enemy can fall back for its defense, you place him in a most precarious position. But in any event, by a movement in rear of Nashville while the Cumberland is low, similar to the one in passing Chattanooga, you isolate that position and compel a retrograde in these words, addressed to General Bragg: Your letter by Colonel Sale received. Grant is at Nashville; Sherman, by last accounts, at Memphis; where Grant is, we must expect the great Federal effor
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 11 (search)
r attention to the fact that this place is to the Confederacy almost as important as the heart is to the human body. We must hold it. I have done all in my power to reinforce and strengthen General Johnston's army. As you know, further reinforcements are greatly needed on account of the superior numbers of the enemy. Is it not in your power to send more troops Could not Forrest or Morgan, or both, do more now for our cause in Sherman's rear than anywhere else He brings his supplies from Nashville, over nearly three hundred miles of railroad, through a rough country, over a great number of bridges. If these are destroyed, it is impossible for him to subsist his large army, and he must fall back through a broad scope of country destitute of provisions, which he could not do without great loss, if not annihilation. I do not wish to volunteer advice, but so great is our anxiety for the success of our arms, and the defense of the State, that I trust you will excuse what may seem to be
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 12 (search)
atawba; consequently, it was near the northern edge of the triangle formed by the points at which the three bodies of Confederate troops assigned to me then were; and, by keeping on its way without losing time, it could prevent their concentration in its front. But, even if united before the powerful Federal army, the Confederate forces were utterly inadequate to the exploit of driving it back, being less than a fourth of its number. In returning from its disastrous expedition against Nashville, the Army of Tennessee had halted in Northeastern Mississippi. A large proportion of these troops were then furloughed by General Hood, and went to their homes. When General Sherman's army invaded South Carolina, General Beauregard ordered those remaining on duty to repair to that State. The first detachment, under Major-General Stevenson, arrived soon enough to oppose the Federal army in its passage of the Edisto, and at Columbia; and had been directed by General Beauregard to march th
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Letters. (search)
Beauregard in the above order is approved, and will be executed accordingly. (Signed) J. E. Johnston, General C. S. A. Edgefield, January 14, 1874. My Dear General: Your letter of the 15th of April, 1870, as to first Manassas, has been too long General Rosecrans has an army of about sixty-five thousand men These were General Bragg's figures. in and around Nashville, and some thirty-five thousand distributed along the railroad to Louisville and in Kentucky. General Bragg has about fuary 25, 1863. Hon. J. A. Seddon, Secretary of War, Richmond: General Bragg reports reinforcements continue to reach Nashville. Major-General Cox arrived last week with a division from West Virginia, and Major-General Sigel is just in with more Jones reported some time ago that the enemy was sending troops from the Kanawah Valley. Soon after, our friends about Nashville informed General Bragg that Major-General Cox had arrived with his division from Western Virginia, and a little later t
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Report of Hon. L. T. Wigfall in the Senate of the Confederate States, march 18, 1865. (search)
by constant falling back. I do not recollect any general officer, except General Polk, who was killed while Johnston was in command; there may have been others, but certainly not many. What were his losses in general officers from Atlanta to Nashville? His march from Jonesboro to the Tennessee line was a retreat, and from Nashville to Tupelo; yet he lost by desertion but three hundred, and left the army in fine spirits. The demoralization of Johnston's army cannot be accounted for on thisNashville to Tupelo; yet he lost by desertion but three hundred, and left the army in fine spirits. The demoralization of Johnston's army cannot be accounted for on this theory. But was it demoralized? It fought well when he first took command. His disasters around Atlanta are not attributed by him to a want of spirit in the men, but to incompetency in the officers. He could not have his orders executed. I incline to the opinion that he is mistaken as much as to his facts as he is in his theory. General Hood insinuates that General Johnston attempts to dodge an acknowledgment of his full losses by excluding the idea of prisoners, and charges that his