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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
sted. The great object of the enemy in this campaign is to acquire possession of the Mississippi. Can you collect here a force sufficient to defeat this object? In Mr. Seddon's next dispatch, dated June 5th, he said: .... I regret my inability to promise more troops, as we have drained resources even to the danger of several points. You know best concerning General Bragg's army, but I fear to withdraw more. We are too far outnumbered in it In Mr. Davis's quotation, in his letter of July 15th, this word is Virginia. In the dispatch to me it is a word of two letters. to spare any. You must rely on what you have, and the irregular forces Mississippi can afford. On the 8th he asked, on the same subject, Do you advise more reenforcements from General Bragg? I replied on the 10th: I have not at my disposal half the number of troops necessary. It is for the Government to determine what department, if any, can furnish the reenforcements required. The Secretary's dispatch, in ciph
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
us, the other See p. 199. to me, that it thought that General Bragg could spare no more men, as I did. The charge in paragraph XVI., that I abandoned my duties as commanding general of a military district, is utterly unfounded, unless the not doing Transferring troops from Bragg's army to Pemberton's in June. what both the President and I thought ought not to be done constituted failure to discharge my duties. Morton, August 8, 1863. Mr. President: I. (Copy.) Your letter of July 15th was handed to me in Mobile on the 28th, by Colonel Shaller. The want of papers to which it was necessary to refer prevented me from replying sooner. II. I respectfully ask your Excellency to reconsider the several allegations of your letter, and especially to consider whether my misapprehension of the order sending me to Mississippi, my having regarded my assignment to the immediate command in that department as having given me a new position and limiting my authority — an opinion wh