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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 342 4 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 333 11 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 292 10 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 278 8 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 277 5 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 267 45 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 263 15 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 252 0 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 228 36 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 228 22 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1865., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Joseph E. Johnston or search for Joseph E. Johnston in all documents.

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The restoration of General Johnston to military duty has given great satisfaction to the country. It will impart still greater satisfaction to the army, which has the most complete confidence in his genius for command. The rank and file are, in general, the best judges of the competency of their leaders. The public at lach evidence of ignorance and fickleness. When it once gives a leader its full trust, it does so upon intelligent grounds, and he retains it to the end. General Johnston has always enjoyed, in an eminent degree, the confidence and admiration of military men and of the rank and file — those noble fellows who offer up their li all practice toleration for the errors of each other, and confide in the common sincerity and patriotism. Of one thing we entertain an abiding confidence. General Johnston, if he is able to rally around him an adequate force, will assist General Sherman to discover that a march like his through the interior of a great country i
n as the state of the roads will permit. In their present miry condition, the movement of artillery is out of the question. Grant has enough of the gambler in his character for the disastrous failure of his last advance towards the railroad to make him but the more impatient to renew the attempt. At present, the extreme left, which may properly be considered the advance of the Yankee army, occupies a position on the left or north side of Hatcher's run, between nine and ten miles southwest of Petersburg, and about five miles in a direct line from the Southside railroad. From the South. The usual number of Sunday rumors were in circulation yesterday, the most agreeable of which, though we regret to say not the most authentic, was that Sherman had been killed and his army routed and driven into the jungles of South Carolina. General Joseph E. Johnston, on Thursday evening last, assumed command of the army in Sherman's front, lately commanded by General Beauregard.