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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 5 (search)
ssee brigade, of Smith's division, within three miles of Seven Pines, and were driven back by it, after a sharp skirmish. Itncountered Federal outposts more than two miles west of Seven Pines, in such strength as indicated the presence of a corps ack, fighting, upon their second line-Couch's division at Seven Pines. R. II. Anderson's brigade, transferred by Longstreet g was then (near five o'clock) decidedly to the right of Seven Pines. It was probably at Casey's intrenched position. Thock, and the firing on the right seemed then to be about Seven Pines. It was evident, therefore, that the battle would not b induced me to postpone the attack. After this battle of Seven Pines-or Fair Oaks, as the Northern people prefer to call it-Gtion of the war has been so little understood as that of Seven Pines; the Southern people have felt no interest in it, becauselman, before the same committee, claimed the victory at Seven Pines, upon no other ground that I can perceive,than the withd
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 14 (search)
d previous bad impressions, it is impossible that the President could have so forgotten his obligations to the country as to leave me in the most important military command of the Confederacy. Still more so, that he could have greatly enlarged that command by adding two armies to it, and this when General Lee, whom he regarded (though illegally) as my senior, was in a mere staff-office in Richmond. And if in the fall of 1862 he had thought of my conduct at Yorktown, and in the battle of Seven Pines, as he wrote of it in 1865, his oath of office would not have permitted him to place me in command of the most important department of the Confederacy. And, although he terminated this message with an assurance to the Confederate Congress that nothing would induce him to assign me to an adequate command, the paper was not sent to Congress, and I was ordered to report to General Lee (who had just been appointed commander-in-chief), and assigned to the command of the second department of t