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Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, Chapter 45: (search)
fore Richmond or Petersburg, either to screen the withdrawal of the rebel army, or to distract attention from operations elsewhere. Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, vol. III., p. 394. And General Grant is reported to have said, on the 25th of February: Deserters from the rebel lines, north of the James, say it is reported among them that Hill's corps has left, or is leaving, to join Beauregard. Ibid., vol. III., p. 395. That, late as it was, the course proposed by General Beauregard wn which naturally arises now is, how did General Johnston carry out these instructions? We know that when the troops under him were assembled, in obedience to orders already issued by General Beauregard, he officially assumed command on the 25th of February, and published on that occasion an able and soldierly address to his troops. But what were his expectations, and what course was it then his intention to pursue? He thought the Southern cause, at that time, irretrievably lost, and so, evid