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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 128 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 116 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 104 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 102 0 Browse Search
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 98 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 94 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 92 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 90 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 90 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 86 0 Browse Search
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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Letters. (search)
itious march of General Bragg's troops into Mississippi. He may, besides, be compelled to take a che need help, and there appear no danger in Mississippi except by the river, could E. K. Smith's meDorn will be to interrupt any movement into Mississippi or Middle Tennessee. J. E. Johnston, Genebruary 12, 1863. Mr. President: . .. In Mississippi every thing depends upon the result of the ton; if troops can be spared from Mobile or Mississippi, or from Middle Tennessee, for the purpose thousand additional troops were required in Mississippi. Since then, Grant's army has been heavilyof troops, in any considerable number, from Mississippi to Tennessee. Those two departments are morders transferring troops from Tennessee to Mississippi. And, whether commanding there or not, thason is necessary to a connection with trans-Mississippi. You may expect whatever it is in my powerds on this side of the river, the safety of Mississippi depends on beating it. For that object you [15 more...]
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Telegrams. (search)
of the general and staff officers who have come out on parole from Vicksburg, so that they may be exchanged immediately. As soon as practicable, let the lists of regiments and other organizations be forwarded for same purpose. General Rains should now apply his invention. Jefferson Davis. Jackson, July 9, 1863. To his Excellency the President: The enemy is advancing in two columns on Jackson, now about four miles distant. I shall endeavor to hold the place, as the possession of Mississippi depends on it. His force is about double ours. J. E. Johnston. Jackson, July 10, 1863. To his Excellency the President: Your dispatch of yesterday received. No report of General Taylor's junction with Gardner has reached me, as it must have done, if true, for we have twelve hundred cavalry in that vicinity. I have nothing official from Vicksburg. (A list of paroled Vicksburg officers follows.) J. E. Johnston. Jackson, July 11, 1863. To his Excellency the President: Un
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Memorandum for Colonel Browne, Aide-de-camp. (search)
re unfit for service, so that the term effective, applied to them as cavalry, is incorrect.5,442 At the end of January, the total present and absent12,152 Respectfully submitted: (Signed) J. E. Johnston, General. Telegrams. Near Marietta, June 12, 1864. General Bragg, Richmond: I have urged General S. D. Lee to send his cavalry at once to break the railroad between Dalton and the Etowah. If you agree with me in the opinion that it can at this time render no service in Mississippi to be compared with this, I suggest that you give him orders. J. E. Johnston, General. Near Marietta, June 12, 1864. His Excellency the President, Richmond: Fearing that a previous telegram may not have reached you, I respectfully recommend the promotion of Brigadier-General Walthall to command the division of Lieutenant-General Polk's troops now under Brigadier-General Canty. General Polk regards this promotion as important as I do. J. E. Johnston, General. Note.-Bad
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Consolidated Summaries in the armies of Tennessee and Mississippi during the campaign commencing May 7, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, and ending after the engagement with the enemy at Jonesboroa and the evacuation at Atlanta, furnished for the information of General Joseph E. Johnston (search)
Consolidated Summaries in the armies of Tennessee and Mississippi during the campaign commencing May 7, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, and endionsolidated Summary of Casualties of the Armies of Tennessee and Mississippi in the Series of Engagements around and from Dalton, Georgia, tounded.Total Hardee's119859978 Hood's2831,5641,847 Polks army, Mississippi42405447 4442,8283,272 Consolidated Summary of Casualties of the Armies of Tennessee and Mississippi in the Series of Engagements around New Hope Church, near Marietta, Georgia: Corps.Killed.Wounded.Total Hardee's1731,0481,221 Hood's103679732 Polk's army, Mississippi33194227 3091,9212,230 Consolidated Summary of Casualties of the Armies of Tennessee and Mississippi in the Series of Engagements around Marietta, Georgia, from June 4 to July 4, 1864: Corps.Killed.Wo.Total Hardee's2001,4331,633 Hood's1401,1211,261 Polk's army, Mississippi1289261,054 4683,4803,948 Consolidation of the above three
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)
Soult's plan of the campaign of Talavcea, to which the Duke of Dalmatia replied: Under present circumstances, we cannot avoid the sacrifices of some territory. . . . This will not be distressing as it may appear, because the moment we have beaten and dispersed the enemy's masses we shall recover all our ground. .. . . I conceive it impossible to finish this war by detachments. It is large masses only, the strongest that you can form, that will succeed. Had all the scattered forces in Mississippi and Alabama been concentrated upon Sherman's rear when he was one hundred and forty miles in the interior, and his communications been thoroughly cut, what to-day would have been our condition? All our ground recovered, Sherman's army destroyed, and Johnston's ready to raise the siege of Richmond or cross the Ohio. Again, it is alleged that the mountainous country of Northern Georgia offered great advantages, which were abandoned. Napier says: Here it may be well to notice an error
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