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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,300 0 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 830 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 638 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 502 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 378 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 I. 340 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 274 0 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 244 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 234 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 218 0 Browse Search
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the means of moving these troops. They are too weak to accomplish much. The reinforcements you mention have joined Grant. J. E. Johnston. At this point in the correspondence, the President wrote a letter to Gen. Johnston in which he reviewed at length all the points at issue between them. He alludes to the latter's assignment to a defined geographical command, by Special Order No. 275, which order described the command as including a portion of Western North Carolina and Northern Georgia, the States of Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi, and that portion of the State of Louisiana east of the Mississippi. We make the following extract from this letter: When I learned that prejudice and malignity had so undermined the confidence of the troops at Vicksburg in their commander as to threaten disaster, I deemed the circumstances such as to present the case foreseen in Special Order No. 275, that you should repair, in person, to any part of said command whenever your pr
f this movement: One of three objects is contemplated by this movement, which is doubtless the same that has been preparing at Hilton Head for some time past, though it is somewhat strange that none of our coast pickets should have discovered and reported their sailing southward. The enemy may design scouring the State of Florida, if the force, of whose exact number we have no information, should warrant it, and then, by a union with troops from Pensacola, proceed to Mobile and co-operate in the attack on that city. Another hypothesis is that they contemplate a raid into Southern Georgia, with the belief that it affords a fine field for operations in the destruction of stores, &c. A third, and most probable conjecture is, that the whole affair is designed as a diversion to draw attention from a more important movement elsewhere. It will be seen by an official dispatch elsewhere that, whatever may have been the purpose of the enemy they have been defeated by Gen. Finnegan.