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General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 24: preparing for the spring of 1863. (search)
tion in Tennessee, thus to compel Grant to abandon Vicksburg the skilful use of interior lines the only way ofe time General Grant crossed the Mississippi below Vicksburg, marched against General Pemberton's army in Missi was driving it back upon its fortifications about Vicksburg. When General Hooker's movements were so develt to push Grant away from his circling lines about Vicksburg. He spoke of the difficulty of feeding as well as and suggested that the only prospect of relieving Vicksburg that occurred to me was to send General Johnston as move, and that the move must, therefore, relieve Vicksburg. It was manifest before the war was accepted tinate fellow that he could only be induced to quit Vicksburg by terribly hard knocks. On the contrary, I clon, and that advantage might have drawn Grant from Vicksburg; whereas General Lee was actually so crippled by hthe means that should be adopted for the relief of Vicksburg. I thought that honor, interest, duty, and humani
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 27: Gettysburg-Second day. (search)
nd difficult grounds without his assistance. If he had been with us, General Hood's messengers could have been referred to general Headquarters, but to delay and send messengers five miles in favor of a move that he had rejected would have been contumacious. The opportunity was with the Confederates from the assembling on Cemetery Hill. It was inviting of their preconceived plans. It was the object of and excuse for the invasion as a substitute for more direct efforts for the relief of Vicksburg. Confederate writers and talkers claim that General Meade could have escaped without making aggressive battle, but that is equivalent to confession of the inertia that failed to grasp the opportunity. Beaten in the battle of the 1st, dislodged of position, and outgeneralled, the Union army would have felt the want of spirit and confidence important to aggressive battle; but the call was in the hands of the Confederates, and these circumstances would have made their work more facile,
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 29: the wave rolls back. (search)
over the boggy fields, our trains had reached the mountain gorge, and the rear-guard was on the march following. Direct pursuit of the solid ranks was changed to march down the east of the mountains, but the firmer broad road gave the Confederates easier march. Kilpatrick got his cavalry in on the wagon-trains and destroyed a number, but did not delay the march of the column. On this retreat the army, already crippled of its pride, was met by the dispiriting news of another defeat at Vicksburg, which meant that the Mississippi was free to the Federals from its source to the Gulf. Diverting incidents occurred, but we were in poor mood for them. As we approached Hagerstown, two grotesque figures stepped into the road about a hundred yards in front of us,--one a negro of six feet and a hundred and eighty pounds, the other a white man of about five feet seven. The negro was dressed in full uniform of the Union infantry, the white man in travel-stained butternut dry-goods. The ne
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 32: failure to follow success. (search)
eneral Longstreet. The President left the army more despondent than he found it. General Pemberton's misfortune at Vicksburg gave rise to severe prejudice of the people and the army, and when the troops heard of the purpose of the President to s of May, when it was first proposed (see strategic map). At that time General Grant was marching to lay siege upon Vicksburg. The campaign in Virginia had been settled, for the time, by the battle of Chancellorsville. Our railways were open asitions, 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 snation would have opened ways for grand results for the South, saved the eight thousand lost in defending the march for Vicksburg, the thirty-one thousand surrendered there, Port Hudson and its garrison of six thousand, and the splendid Army of Nort