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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 1 (search)
. In a few days the army was strengthened by the accession of Brigadier-General Bee, Colonel Elzey, and the Ninth Georgia regiment. It was then reorganized. Jackson's brigade was formed of the Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Twenty-seventh Virginia regiments, and Pendleton's battery; Bee's of the Second and Eleventh Mississippi, Frigades were engaged with this little rear-guard. General Patterson's report. On this intelligence, received at sunset, the army was ordered forward, and met Jackson's brigade retiring, at Darksville, six or seven miles from Martinsburg, soon after daybreak. We bivouacked there in order of battle, as the Federal army was supplight intrenchments. Since the return of the army from Parksville, the Thirty-third Virginia regiment, organized by Colonel A. C. Cummings, had been added to Jackson's brigade; the Sixth North Carolina to Bee's; the Eleventh Georgia to Bartow's; The Ninth Georgia had joined it soon after the troops reached Winchester. and a f
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 2 (search)
e. The troops left their camps about noon, Jackson's brigade leading. After the march was fairlaccomplished easily in twenty-four hours. Jackson's brigade, his leading men, that is to say, rhe Shenandoah, having marched thirteen miles; Jackson's brigade marched the six miles from Paris to thousand yards still farther up the stream. Jackson's and Bee's brigades, as they arrived, had begades of our centre and right, while Cocke's, Jackson's, and Bee's brigades, and Hampton's legion, e in sight of Bee's troops were lying down by Jackson's order, to avoid the enemy's artillery. stoowas a great fault on my part. When Bee's and Jackson's brigades were ordered to the vicinity of thirected this movement. The troops Except Jackson's. had been nine or ten hours in marching froistance. On the 29th of July the surgeons of Jackson's brigade reported that the number of its sicigade. The positions described above, except Jackson's, were occupied by the troops on the 23d or [1 more...]
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter3 (search)
J. Jackson, were appointed majors-general to command them. Bonham's, Early's, and Rodes's brigades, formed Van Dorn's division; D. R. Jones's, Ewell's, and Cocke's, joined Longstreet's; those of S. Jones, Toombs, and Wilcox, G. W. Smith's; and Jackson's was composed of his former brigade, Elzey's, Crittenden's, and Walker's. No army composed of new troops ever had general officers of more merit than those just enumerated. This fact, and the admirable character of the troops themselves, jnd Longstreet's divisions occupied the ground between Union Mills and the village of Centreville — the former on the right; G. W. Smith's formed on the left, thrown back on the heights nearly parallel to and north of the Warrenton Turnpike; and Jackson's, constituting the reserve, was posted in rear of Centreville. The engineers were directed to fortify the summit of the hill near this village — that, by holding it, the strongest and salient point of the position, with two or three thousand m
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 4 (search)
proved, too, that the President was reminded of these difficulties when we were discussing the measure in his office, with his cabinet. After it had become evident that the Valley was to be invaded by an army too strong to be encountered by Jackson's division, that officer was instructed to endeavor to employ the invaders in the Valley, but without exposing himself to the danger of defeat, by keeping so near the enemy as to prevent him from making any considerable detachment to reenforce Mat the Federal army was marching from Fort Monroe toward Yorktown, D. H. Hill's, D. R. Jones's, and Early's divisions, were transferred from the Army of Northern Virginia to that of the Peninsula. The former was thus reduced to four divisions: Jackson's at Mount Jackson, Ewell's on the Rappahannock, Longstreet's at Orange Court-House, and G. W. Smith's at Fredericksburg. Before the 10th, the President was convinced, by Major-General Magruder's reports, that the entire army just brought do
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 6 (search)
ers had been given, he set off for Mississippi, desiring me to accompany him. He arrived in Jackson in the morning of the 19th. Governor Pettus had just convened the Legislature, in order that thhe mode of warfare best adapted to our circumstances. On the 25th the President returned to Jackson, accompanied b1y Lieutenant-General Pemberton as well as myself. On the 27th Major-General neral Grant's forces were being withdrawn to Memphis; and said that he was assembling troops at Jackson; and was then ready to send four thousand to Tennessee. This dispatch was received on the 13that Newton on the 24th, where he destroyed some cars and engines, and small bridges. Crossing Pearl River at Georgetown, he struck the New Orleans and Jackson Railroad at Hazelhurst, where cars were y, to cross the Big Black there. General Loring, coming to his assistance with a division from Jackson, by Edwards's Depot, sent a detachment to hold Grindstone Ford, and turned to join him at the f
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
dispatch from General Pemberton. arrival at Jackson. movements of the enemy. orders to General s action, was much regretted. He fell back to Jackson, in conformity to General Pemberton's instrucith Maxey's brigade, would raise the force at Jackson to eleven or twelve thousand men. Under ticer by Captain Yerger, who happened to be in Jackson and volunteered to bear it, informing him of chief quartermaster of the department, was in Jackson; and, foreseeing, from the intelligence receiso, that prisoners reported that the force in Jackson constituted half of Grant's army, and that it that object, McPherson with two divisions at Jackson, McClernand with three at Raymond, Hovey with near the railroad, and Sherman's, which left Jackson on the 16th, on a pontoon-bridge laid at Bridbe speedily reenforced. This was received in Jackson on the 15th. In my reply, he was informed thin consequence of which the army fell back to Jackson, which it reached on the afternoon of the 7th[12 more...]
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
hapter 7 General Sherman advances on Jackson with large force. dispositions made for its ne of fieldworks thrown up for the defense of Jackson by General Pemberton's orders. These works, one south of it within a short distance of Pearl River, and covered the approaches to the place weter for troops was to be found than that of Pearl River. This led me to believe that the Federal an so extended that both flanks rested upon Pearl River. Colonel C. A. Fuller, of Lieutenant-Genera This made it certain that the abandonment of Jackson could be deferred little longer. General Jacry would commence next day. The evacuation of Jackson that night was decided on and accomplished beederal army remained only five or six days in Jackson, but in that short time it destroyed all of tPherson with his two divisions arrived by the Jackson road. It was at least an hour General Grandetachment, in conjunction with the troops in Jackson, to reopen his communications and enable comi[14 more...]
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 9 (search)
xpedition had been accomplished. On the 11th of February, intelligence was received from Lieutenant-General Polk that General Sherman was leading an army of thirty-five thousand infantry and artillery eastwardly from Vicksburg, had crossed Pearl River at Jackson, and was moving along the railroad toward Meridian. Mobile was assumed to be the object of this expedition. Orders by telegraph were received on the same day from the President, directing me to aid Lieutenant-General Polk, either Jackson, and was moving along the railroad toward Meridian. Mobile was assumed to be the object of this expedition. Orders by telegraph were received on the same day from the President, directing me to aid Lieutenant-General Polk, either by sending him reenforcements or by joining him myself with what force I could. The President urged that the enemy should be met before he had established a new base to which supplies and reinforcements might be sent by sea. I replied on the same day, and suggested that it would be impossible for troops from Dalton to meet this Federal army before it reached the Gulf, and therefore asked instructions in that view of the case. This dispatch did not reach the.President's hands, and on the 13th
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 11 (search)
acing Adairsville; the latter halted on its right. Jackson's division observed the Federal column on the Kingin observation along the stream-Wheeler's above and Jackson's below the infantry. Our loss in killed and woCreek; and Hood's massed on the right of that road; Jackson's division on the left, and Wheeler's in front of te cavalry of the Federal right was held in check by Jackson's division, aided by the line of intrenchments consd approached Hardee's line, opposed in advancing by Jackson's division, as well as twenty-five hundred men can red to bring forward his division to the support of Jackson's troops. It was done; and the State troops under ee's, Wheeler's on the right of Loring's corps, and Jackson's, supported by General Smith, on the left of Hood'ahoochee; Wheeler's to observe the river above, and Jackson's below. The Federal army approached as cautioured from the Etowah into the field on the 9th, and Jackson's three thousand nine hundred met us at Adairsville
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 14 (search)
saved easily by making a temporary bridge at Jackson. I think, if the original paper ever sees daemained in Tullahoma, instead of returning to Jackson, where his presence was required by the immins surrender. This caused him to fall back to Jackson; which place he represented to be of importathe construction of a temporary bridge over Pearl River at Jackson. 6. After this the PresidentJackson. 6. After this the President's confidence in Johnston's ability as a general was so far destroyed, that he determined not to in the power to go without one. On arriving at Jackson, I took the promptest See page 176. measure by disobedience of my orders. The troops in Jackson rendered the only service possible, by delayiThe assertions concerning the little siege of Jackson are contradicted by the very correspondence Stores were not lost, for we had none in Jackson. We were supplied by the railroad from the Ee taken to rebuild the railroad and bridge at Jackson, after their destruction by the Federal army [8 more...]
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