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Peach Tree Creek (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
thout risk from any quarter. General Johnston, however, as he abandoned his intrenched positions, conducted his retreat, in my judgment, in a prudent and consummate manner, both in strategy and tactics. All the positions chosen for making a stand were selected with the utmost sagacity and skill, and his defenses were thrown up and strengthened with the exercise of marvelous ingenuity and judgment. This was the case near Dalton, Resaca, Cassville, New-Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach-Tree Creek, and other points which I do not now remember. Considering that Johnston's army was on the retreat, I think it remarkable that we found no deserters, no stragglers, no muskets or knapsacks, and no material of war. Johnston's troops also covered and protected the citizens living in the vast district in which we were operating, in carrying off all their property from before us. In fact, it was the cleanest and best-conducted retreat, as was remarked by every one, that we had seen or read
Bruinsburg (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
the hesitation of the Government to reinforce the Army of the Mississippi. About eighteen thousand men were sent to it from Beauregard's and Bragg's departments between the 12th and the end of May. This could have been done as easily between the middle of April, when General Grant's plan became distinctly known, and the 1st of May, when he crossed the Mississippi. With such an addition to his strength, General Pemberton would certainly have enabled Bowen to meet McClernand's corps, near Bruinsburg, with a superior force, and probably decide the campaign by defeating it. The only proper measures in my power were taken to rebuild the railroad and bridge at Jackson, after their destruction by the Federal army in July. As many laborers, wagons, and teams, as the engineers of the railroad companies required, were impressed for their use. It was with such assistance that one company repaired its road and the other was repairing its bridge, after.their destruction in May by General Gr
Bull Run, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
commissary stores. The vast quantities (rather more than a sixth of the whole supply) destroyed ought not to have been removed. It would have been too hazardous. The army was not halted by the President's command. It left Centreville and Bull Run to take position on the south bank of the Rappahannock; and had reached that line before the President knew that it had moved. The position had been prepared by field-works near the railroad-bridge, and a depot of provision. The Chief Commissan body moved. The President certainly did not stop it. Colonel A. H. Cole, of the Quartermaster's Department, wrote to me on the 30th of March, 1872: In reply to your questions in relation to the withdrawal of the army from Centreville and Bull Run in March, 1862, I will state that, when you ordered the removal of the military stores from Manassas, February 22d, your principal staff-officers were informed that the position of the army would be on the south side of the Rappahannock, near th
Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
e synopsis and these omissions to be substantially given as stated. Very truly, your sincere friend, (Signed) Benj. G. Humphreys. To General J. E. Johnston, Savannah, Ga. Savannah, Ga., October 8, 1873. Dear General: I have carefully examined the paper which you submitted to me, claiming to be an abstract of a certain manusSavannah, Ga., October 8, 1873. Dear General: I have carefully examined the paper which you submitted to me, claiming to be an abstract of a certain manuscript message purporting to have been prepared by Mr. Davis, during his presidency of the Confederate States, but which was not submitted to the Confederate Congress, in which he gives his reasons for not reinstating you to command after your removal before Atlanta. This latter document was in my possession for a while, and I ridge over Pearl River; and another, your failure to take command of Bragg's army in 1863, as ordered. Yours truly, (Signed) L. Mims. General J. E. Johnston, Savannah, Ga. 1.The numbers are mine, for clearness of reference. It is stated in this paper that, at the beginning of the struggle, he (the President) had entire confid
Seven Pines (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
any further command in the Confederate Army. I find it to agree wonderfully with my recollections of the contents of that paper. The synopsis is somewhat meagre in elaboration and detail, but, with some few omissions, it is substantially correct, I think. First, in the charges stated in regard to your conduct and course in the Valley before the battle of Manassas; then of what is said of your movement from Manassas and preliminary to it; then the accusations against you at Yorktown, at Seven Pines, and at Vicksburg; and the alleged misconduct in Georgia, are all given substantially correct. As to the omissions I allude to, I think it is stated in the original paper that you were ordered to take command of Bragg's army in January, 1863, if it appeared to you to be advisable, but that you sustained Bragg, expressed confidence, etc., in him. Then you are taken to task for remaining in Tennessee instead of going to Mississippi, where you ought to have been, and where you did not go un
Virginia (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
ridge. If imperative instructions to halt ever came to me from Richmond, it must have been when the army was established in its new position; so that they had no effect, and therefore made no impression on my memory. The representatives of Northern Virginia, in Congress, were greatly excited by the withdrawal of the army from Centreville, and saw the President on the subject. This may have drawn from him an order to me to halt — after the fact. 3. The allegations of this paragraph are complerevious year. of cavalry, probably not less than twelve thousand men, are not included in his estimate, it is not impossible that some infantry may have been omitted also. The Army of Tennessee was certainly numerically inferior to that of Northern Virginia, and General Bragg asserted See page 364. that Sherman's was superior in fighting force to Grant's. But if the disparity of force was greater in General Lee's case than in mine, I submit to the Southern people that to condemn me alone of a
Fredericksburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
w that it had moved. The position had been prepared by field-works near the railroad-bridge, and a depot of provision. The Chief Commissary was informed early in the winter that, when the army left its present position, its next would be behind the Rappahannock. When the orders to remove public property were given on the 22d of February, the principal staff-officers were informed that the new position of the army would be the south bank of the Rappahannock. The right wing, ordered to Fredericksburg, had taken its position before the main body moved. The President certainly did not stop it. Colonel A. H. Cole, of the Quartermaster's Department, wrote to me on the 30th of March, 1872: In reply to your questions in relation to the withdrawal of the army from Centreville and Bull Run in March, 1862, I will state that, when you ordered the removal of the military stores from Manassas, February 22d, your principal staff-officers were informed that the position of the army would be
Kenesaw Mountain (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
l his positions without risk from any quarter. General Johnston, however, as he abandoned his intrenched positions, conducted his retreat, in my judgment, in a prudent and consummate manner, both in strategy and tactics. All the positions chosen for making a stand were selected with the utmost sagacity and skill, and his defenses were thrown up and strengthened with the exercise of marvelous ingenuity and judgment. This was the case near Dalton, Resaca, Cassville, New-Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach-Tree Creek, and other points which I do not now remember. Considering that Johnston's army was on the retreat, I think it remarkable that we found no deserters, no stragglers, no muskets or knapsacks, and no material of war. Johnston's troops also covered and protected the citizens living in the vast district in which we were operating, in carrying off all their property from before us. In fact, it was the cleanest and best-conducted retreat, as was remarked by every one, that w
Jackson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
saved easily by making a temporary bridge at Jackson. I think, if the original paper ever sees daemained in Tullahoma, instead of returning to Jackson, where his presence was required by the immins surrender. This caused him to fall back to Jackson; which place he represented to be of importathe construction of a temporary bridge over Pearl River at Jackson. 6. After this the PresidentJackson. 6. After this the President's confidence in Johnston's ability as a general was so far destroyed, that he determined not to in the power to go without one. On arriving at Jackson, I took the promptest See page 176. measure by disobedience of my orders. The troops in Jackson rendered the only service possible, by delayiThe assertions concerning the little siege of Jackson are contradicted by the very correspondence Stores were not lost, for we had none in Jackson. We were supplied by the railroad from the Ee taken to rebuild the railroad and bridge at Jackson, after their destruction by the Federal army [8 more...]
Resaca (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
ong, with reasonable chances of success. We were compelled to abandon Dalton, not by the extension of a flank, but by the march of the Federal army itself toward Resaca — that march being completely covered by the mountain, Rocky-Face. And at Resaca, after intrenching his army so strongly as to make it secure from assault, GenerResaca, after intrenching his army so strongly as to make it secure from assault, General Sherman availed himself of the course of the Oostenaula, almost parallel to our railroad, to extend his line, protected by it, to the neighborhood of Calhoun, which compelled us to pass to the rear of that point, to avoid being cut off from Atlanta. At New-Hope Church, where the armies were parallel to each other almost two wutmost sagacity and skill, and his defenses were thrown up and strengthened with the exercise of marvelous ingenuity and judgment. This was the case near Dalton, Resaca, Cassville, New-Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach-Tree Creek, and other points which I do not now remember. Considering that Johnston's army was on the retrea
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