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General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 24: preparing for the spring of 1863. (search)
cross the Blackwater to close lines about the forts around Suffolk, and ordered the troops along our line in North Carolina tthe time of my recall by General Lee. While lying near Suffolk a couple of young men dressed as citizens entered my tent in case we should wish to make a detour for the capture of Suffolk. One of them, Harrison, proved to be an active, intelligein service. The accounts that we gained indicated that Suffolk could be turned and captured with little loss, but as we occurrence of serious moment while we had our forces about Suffolk was the loss of Captain Stribling's battery, which had beerepeated calls came to me over the wires to pull away from Suffolk and return to General Lee with all speed. These came fromur intrenched lines and await the return of my troops from Suffolk. Under that plan General Lee would have had time to stat the same time he should send my divisions, just up from Suffolk, to join Johnston's reinforcements to Bragg's army; that t
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 32: failure to follow success. (search)
n in Virginia had been settled, for the time, by the battle of Chancellorsville. Our railways were open and free from Virginia through East Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, to Central Mississippi. The armies of Rosecrans and Bragg were standing near Murfreesboroa and Shelbyville, Tennessee. The Richmond authorities were trying to collect a force at Jackson, Mississippi, to drive Grant's army from the siege. Two divisions of the First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia were marching from Suffolk to join General Lee at Fredericksburg. Under these circumstances, positions, and conditions, I proposed to Secretary Seddon, and afterwards to General Lee, as the only means of relief for Vicksburg, that Johnston should be ordered with his troops to join Bragg's army; that the divisions marching for Fredericksburg should be ordered to meet Johnston's, the transit over converging lines would give speedy combination, and Johnston should be ordered to strike Rosecrans in overwhelming numbers
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 35: cut off from East and West. (search)
request, but the favor he was doing the service gave him some claim to unusual consideration, and his request was granted. The Law disaffection was having effect, or seemed to be, among some of the officers, but most of them and all of the soldiers were true and brave, even through all of the hardships of the severest winter of the four years of war. Marching and fighting had been almost daily occupation from the middle of January, 1863, when we left Fredericksburg to move down to Suffolk, Virginia, until the 16th of December, when we found bleak winter again breaking upon us, away from our friends, and dependent upon our own efforts for food and clothing. It is difficult for a soldier to find words that can express his high appreciation of conduct in officers and men who endured so bravely the severe trials they were called to encounter. Orders were given to cross the Holston River and march for the railroad, only a few miles away. Before quitting the fields of our arduous