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Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 14
have grievances. Indiscreet persons at Richmond, claiming the privilege and discharging the duty of friendship, gave tongue to loud and frequent plaints, and increased the confusion of the hour. In a letter to Honorable James Lyons, of Richmond, Va., dated August 30, 1878, Mr. Davis says: In relation to the complaint of my giving General Lee the higher rank, I have only to say that it seems to me quite absurd. Of the two, General Lee had the higher rank as a cadet; came out of Mexico with a higher brevet; had the higher rank in the cavalry of the United States; had the higher rank in the Army of Virginia, from which they both came to join the Confederate Army, and was named first when both were nominated to the Congress for commissions as Brigadier-Generals of the Confederacy. It is true General Johnston, as Quartermaster-General of the United States, had the staff commission as Brigadier-General. It is equally true that he was prohibited by virtue of that commission
Manassas, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
ilitary place to yourself, it did not occur to me that anyone else could be supposed to be thought of. In offering this suggestion, I was prompted by the idea that such a course on your part would prevent any political agitation in the country. Most respectfully, Your obedient servant, J. E. Johnston, General. I could not doubt from your letters to me that you considered me as commanding this army. J. E. Johnston. Richmond, Va., September 13, 1861. General J. E. Johnston, Manassas, Va. My dear General: Yours of the 10th instant is before me, and I can only suppose that you have been deceived by someone of that class in whose absence the strife ceaseth. While you were in the Valley of Virginia, your army and that of General Beauregard were independent commands; when you marched to Manassas, the forces joined and did duty together. I trust the two officers highest in military rank in Richmond were too well informed to have doubted in either case as to your power an
Centreville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
ston at Manassas as follows: We are anxiously looking for official reports of the battle of Manassas, and have present need to know what supplies and wagons were captured. I wish you would have prepared a statement of your wants in transportation and supplies of all kinds, to put your army on a proper footing for active operations . I am as ever your friend, (Signed) Jefferson Davis. General Johnston apparently becoming more and more impatient and irritated at affairs at Centreville and at Richmond, wrote to the President under date of September 10th, as follows: Manassas, September 10, 1861. his Excellency, the President. Sir: It was said that during the past summer I have been censured by the two persons in Richmond highest in military rank, for not having assumed command of this army, and that they complain of the inconvenience to the service which had been produced thereby. Permit me to say that this accusation is untrue. I am, and have been, in comman
Washington, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
virtue of that commission from assuming command of troops. I suppose he knew that when he was nominated to be Quartermaster-General. I was chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the nomination with the recommendation that he be confirmed; that it met serious opposition, and that all my power and influence were required to prevent its rejection. In that contest I had no aid from the Senators of Virginia, perhaps because of their want of confidence in Mr. Floyd. If Mason were living, he could tell more of this than I am disposed to say. An officer of the War Department at Washington, when sending Mr. Davis, in September, 1880, copies of General Johnston's letters of March, 1862, said: The official records when published will not add to, but greatly detract from, General Johnston's reputation. He adds: I can hardly conceive how you (Mr. Davis) could so long have borne with the snarly tone of his letters, which he wrote at all times and on all pretexts.
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
bedient servant, J. E. Johnston, General. I could not doubt from your letters to me that you considered me as commanding this army. J. E. Johnston. Richmond, Va., September 13, 1861. General J. E. Johnston, Manassas, Va. My dear General: Yours of the 10th instant is before me, and I can only suppose that you have beeth. I have the honor to be, most respectfully, Your obedient servant, J. E. Johnston, General. To which letter Mr. Davis briefly replied as follows: Richmond, Va., September 14, 1861. General J. E. Johnston: Sir: I have just received and read your letter of the 12th instant. Its language is, as you say, unusual; itsharging the duty of friendship, gave tongue to loud and frequent plaints, and increased the confusion of the hour. In a letter to Honorable James Lyons, of Richmond, Va., dated August 30, 1878, Mr. Davis says: In relation to the complaint of my giving General Lee the higher rank, I have only to say that it seems to me qu
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 14
ominations made by the President of the Confederate States of five Generals of the Confederate Armyto original vacancies in the army of the Confederate States, the commissions issued shall have been my held anterior to the secession of the Confederate States from the United States. Under these lUnited States. Under these laws, on May 13, 1861, R. E. Lee and myself were nominated as Brigadier-Generals in the Confederate ia joined the Confederacy he came to the Confederate States ; also that in the Virginia Army he was of the constitutional Government of the Confederate States to sustain me. Heretofore those who dispeen done heretofore in the regular service in America but by the sentence of a court-martial as a p service of the United States and of the Confederate States shall be above me. But it must not be da had the higher rank in the cavalry of the United States; had the higher rank in the Army of VirginJohnston, as Quartermaster-General of the United States, had the staff commission as Brigadier-Gen[10 more...]
Centreville (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
Chapter 14: General Johnston's correspondence. After the battle of Manassas the Confederate army settled down in camp at and around Centreville. Although after combining the armies of Generals Johnston and Beauregard at Manassas the command of the whole would unquestionably devolve upon General Johnston, matters did not apparently run smoothly between the two generals, and conflicts of authority occurred, as will appear by the following letters and telegrams. Published for the first time. In fact, General Johnston brooked no interference with his command, even by his superiors in the government at Richmond. On July 24, 1861, General J. E. Johnston wrote to General Cooper, the Adjutant-General, as follows: General: Lieutenant-Colonel Maury reported to me this morning as A. A. G., being assigned to that place by General Lee. I had already selected Major Rhett for the position in question, who had entered upon its duties, and can admit the power of no officer
Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
, else why were not nominations made then? It was a time of flagrant war. Either we were Generals, or the army and country were left without such officers. Our former grade had been abolished. We were not Brigadier-Generals, we were nothing, and could perform no military duty, exercise no command. I think it clear that I was a General by the plain terms of the law. It is plain from the action of the President and Congress that such was their construction, as I was at once ordered to Harper's Ferry to take command in the valley of Virginia, and the President soon after placed three Brigadier--Generals under my orders. In hurrying to assume the command in the valley of Virginia, I did not wait for my commission to be sent to me. I did not doubt that it would be made out, for I was persuaded that it was my right, and had no idea that there was any purpose of withholding it. I remained two months in the valley, too earnestly engaged in the public service to busy myself particularly i
Richard Taylor (search for this): chapter 14
1861-62. They were as follows: Samuel Cooper, to rank May 16, 1861. Albert Sidney Johnston, to rank May 30, 1861. Robert E. Lee, to rank June 14, 1861. J. E. Johnston, to rank July 4, 1861. G. T. Beauregard, to rank July 2r, 1861. Braxton Bragg, to rank April 12, 1862. To explain even more fully the position taken by Mr. Davis in assigning the abovenamed officers to their relative rank, the following extract is taken from Destruction and reconstruction by General Richard Taylor. He writes: Near the close of President Buchanan's administration, in 1860, died General Jessup, Quartermaster-General of the United States Army; and J. E. Johnston, then Lieutenant-Colonel of Cavalry, was appointed to the vacancy. Now the Quartermaster-General had the rank, pay, and emoluments of a Brigadier-General; but the rank was staff, and by law this officer could not exercise command over the troops unless by special assignment. When, in the spring of 1861, the of
J. E. Johnston (search for this): chapter 14
Chapter 14: General Johnston's correspondence. After the battle of Manassas the Confederate ar Although after combining the armies of Generals Johnston and Beauregard at Manassas the command oe whole would unquestionably devolve upon General Johnston, matters did not apparently run smoothly August 1, 1861, President Davis wrote to General Johnston at Manassas as follows: We are anxioof the foregoing letter of the President, General Johnston addressed him as follows: headquarters, body returning the thanks of Congress to General Johnston, to General Beauregard, and to the officeced the irritation (if nothing more) that General Johnston mentions. That it did not interfere, howserved in their later correspondence. General Johnston's remark that the President's irritation r heard him utter a word in derogation of General Johnston, though he often differed from him in hisn connection with the foregoing letter of General Johnston, it may be as well to give here the roste[7 more...]
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