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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Joseph E. Johnston. (search)
gave the lofty answer, he scorned to make in words, to all who dared taunt him with want of daring. It should be some one, not less seamed over with honorable scars, who makes that charge. The battle furrowed chieftain might have said: Put your fingers in my wounds, all ye who doubt. But the heroic answer ever is in deeds. So answered the captain, who careless of his own blood was careful of that of his men, who knew how to take them under fire and how to bring them out. Report of L. P. Wigfall in the Senate of the Confederate States, March 1865. From first manoeuvre to final onset nothing can surpass the magnificent strategy he now displayed. It will have to blush before no other of the war, or of the world. With decisiveness of command, which was met by celerity of execution, he at once ordered the movements which snatched, from the very jaws of death, the last Confederate victory. In the thrilling game of chess, which he now played, no pawn was taken without his leave, wh