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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: (search)
having been made general-in-chief, called General Johnston to the command of the army of Tennessee a cars, orders were received to unite with General Johnston. At noon of the 21st the troops joined hHardee, numbering 15,000 men of all arms, General Johnston fought the battle of Bentonville. CheathGeneral Grant, said: Yesterday we pushed him (Johnston) hard and came very near crushing him. But G000 men. In the early morning of the 22d, General Johnston retired across Mill creek and formed line specimen of the man, officer and soldier. Johnston's army changed position on the 24th to a poin General Lee had surrendered, and on the 17th Johnston's army was confronted by overwhelming numberseen agreed upon by which the troops under General Johnston would be surrendered. This announcemen-nine thousand and twelve officers and men of Johnston's army were paroled at Greensboro, N. C., andg farewell to the troops was published by General Johnston, and the Tennessee brigade marched to Gre[8 more...]
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter XI (search)
spiration, excited the admiration of the division general. Three fresh brigades were ready to move forward into close action, and there is no reason to doubt that with one short hour of daylight the enemy would have been driven into the swamps of the Chickahominy. As it was, darkness compelled the abandonment of an unfinished task, and the troops were withdrawn from the swamp and bivouacked within musket range of the enemy. When General Smith withdrew his troops, he was informed that General Johnston had been severely wounded and disabled, which misfortune devolved on him the temporary command of the army. On the following day at 2 o'clock p. m. Gen. Robert E. Lee was assigned to the command of the army. Seven Pines would have been a fatal day for Tennessee if no other casualty had befallen Hatton's brigade than the fall of its commander. The personal bearing and conduct of the lamented General Hatton upon the field were gallant, and true to his high social and official charact
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
mber, 1856. May 27, 1861, on the secession of his State, he resigned his commission in the United States army and tendered his services to the Southern Confederacy. He was first made captain of cavalry and placed in command of the post at Memphis, whence he was ordered to western Kentucky and thence to Jackson, Miss. In 1862 he was commissioned colonel, and on December 29th was promoted to brigadier-general. On the death of Brig.-Gen. Lloyd Tilghman, May 16, 1863, Adams was placed by General Johnston in command of that officer's brigade, comprising the Sixth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-third and Forty-third Mississippi regiments of infantry. He was in Gen. J. E. Johnston's campaign for the relief of Vicksburg, in the fighting around Jackson, Miss., and afterward served under Polk in that State and marched with that general from Meridian, Miss., to Demopolis, Ala., thence to Rome, Ga., and forward to Resaca, where he joined the army of Tennessee. He served with disti