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McDowell (search for this): chapter 4.44
In answer to your note, I hasten to say that properly Mr. Davis is not to be held accountable for our failure to pursue McDowell from the field of Manassas the night of the 21st of July, 1861. As to the order, to which I presume Mr. Davis refers Creek. These junctions having been effected at Manassas, an immediate, impetuous attack of our combined armies upon General McDowell was to follow, as soon as he approached my advanced position, at and around Fairfax Court-House, with the inevitable had been withdrawn. The War Department having been informed by me, by telegraph on July 17th, of the movement of General McDowell, General Johnston was immediately ordered to form a junction of his army corps with mine, should the movement in hismies was: Confederate, 30,167 men of all arms, with 29 guns; General Beauregard's report. Federal, 35,732 men, General McDowell's return, July 16, 17, 1861. with a body of cavalry, of which only one company is reported, and a large artillery fo
Ricketts (search for this): chapter 4.44
e enemy were not entirely broken, and very few of our troops in front of the Run, and advised him to retire; that I was then about to charge. . . . We made the charge; a small body of the enemy broke before we reached them, and scattered, and the larger body of troops beyond proved to be of our own troops rapidly advancing upon our left. . . . After parting from the President, I pushed on to Sudley Church, and far beyond. Sent my surgeon, Dr. Randolph Barksdale, to Captains Tillinghast, Ricketts, and other badly wounded United States officers, and was going on until a superior force should stop me, but was recalled by an order and returned over the field to my quarters at Manassas a little before daylight—I and my little gallant squadron—having been actively in the saddle, I think, more than twenty hours. . . . (Signed) John F. Lay. Late Colonel of Cavalry, C. S. A. N. B.—It may be well to add that General R. Lindsey Walker (then Captain Walker, of the battery referred to) is<
Thomas Jordan (search for this): chapter 4.44
in chief command. He was decidedly averse to an immediate offensive, and emphatically discountenanced it as impracticable. Very truly your friend, (Signed) Thomas Jordan. General P. G. T. Beauregard, New Orleans, Louisiana. General Beauregard, in his letter forwarding the above, wrote, The account given herewith by General General Jordan of what occurred there respecting further pursuit that night agrees with my own recollection. It was a matter of importance, as I regarded it, to follow closely on the retreating enemy, but it was of no consequence then or now as to who issued the order for pursuit, and unless requested, I should not have dictated one, p of infantry and one of cavalry on the road by which the enemy retreated toward and via Sudley's Mills. By command of Brigadier-General Beauregard: (Signed) Thomas Jordan, A. A. Adjutant-General. To Brigadier-General Bonham. Impressed with the belief that the enemy was very superior to us, both in numbers and appointments,
Randolph Barksdale (search for this): chapter 4.44
d than he should be; that the forces of the enemy were not entirely broken, and very few of our troops in front of the Run, and advised him to retire; that I was then about to charge. . . . We made the charge; a small body of the enemy broke before we reached them, and scattered, and the larger body of troops beyond proved to be of our own troops rapidly advancing upon our left. . . . After parting from the President, I pushed on to Sudley Church, and far beyond. Sent my surgeon, Dr. Randolph Barksdale, to Captains Tillinghast, Ricketts, and other badly wounded United States officers, and was going on until a superior force should stop me, but was recalled by an order and returned over the field to my quarters at Manassas a little before daylight—I and my little gallant squadron—having been actively in the saddle, I think, more than twenty hours. . . . (Signed) John F. Lay. Late Colonel of Cavalry, C. S. A. N. B.—It may be well to add that General R. Lindsey Walker (then Capt<
Upton (search for this): chapter 4.44
Alexandria; the certainty, too, that General Patterson, if needed, would reach Washington with his army of more than thirty thousand sooner than we could; and the condition and inadequate means of the army in ammunition, provisions, and transportation, prevented any serious thoughts of advancing against the capital. To the second question I reply that it has never been feasible for the army to advance farther than it has done—to the line of Fairfax Court-House, with its advanced posts at Upton's, Munson's, and Mason's Hills. After a conference at Fairfax Court-House with the three senior general officers, you announced it to be impracticable to give this army the strength which those officers considered necessary to enable it to assume the offensive. Upon which I drew it back to its present position. Most respectfully, your obedient servant, (Signed) J. E. Johnston. This answer to my inquiry was conclusive as to the charge which had been industriously circulated that I h
W. A. Harris (search for this): chapter 4.44
ee what care was being taken of the wounded. I found a hospital on the Sudley road, back of the field of battle, at which Colonel Jones, of the Fourth Alabama, had been, which was in charge of a surgeon of a Rhode Island regiment, whose name was Harris, I think. I asked him if he had what he wanted for the men under his care, and he told me he would like to have some morphine, of which his supply was short. I directed a young surgeon of our cavalry, who rode up at the time, to furnish the morphine, which he did, from a pair of medical saddle-pockets which he had. Dr. Harris told me that he knew that their troops had had a great deal of coffee and sugar mixed, ready for boiling, of which a good deal had been left at different points near the field, and asked if there would be any objection to his sending out and gathering some of it for the use of the wounded under his charge, as it would be of much service to them. I gave him the permission to get not only that, but anything else t
William Patterson (search for this): chapter 4.44
equired for such operations would have more than sufficed for General Patterson's army and other forces to have been brought to that localityorgetown, Arlington, and Alexandria; the certainty, too, that General Patterson, if needed, would reach Washington with his army of more thanpresenting the relative strength and positions of the enemy under Patterson and of his own forces to be such as to make it doubtful whether G guard the five defensive passes of the Blue Ridge, and thus hold Patterson in check. At the same time Brigadier-General Holmes was to marchs, was to march back rapidly into the Valley, fall upon and crush Patterson with a superior force, wheresoever he might be found. This, I cogain for a time within the lines of Bull Run with my main force. Patterson having been virtually destroyed, then General Johnston would reenke the movement, in view of the relative strength and position of Patterson's forces as compared with his own. The plan of campaign report
Robert Garnett (search for this): chapter 4.44
es of Bull Run with my main force. Patterson having been virtually destroyed, then General Johnston would reenforce General Garnett sufficiently to make him superior to his opponent (General McClellan) and able to defeat that officer. This done, GGeneral Garnett was to form an immediate junction with General Johnston, who was forthwith to cross the Potomac into Maryland with his whole force, arouse the people as he advanced to the recovery of their political rights, and the defense of their h 2. It proposed to continue operations by effecting a junction of a part of the victorious forces with the army of General Garnett in Western Virginia. General Garnett's forces amounted only to three or four thousand men, then known to be in rapidGeneral Garnett's forces amounted only to three or four thousand men, then known to be in rapid retreat before vastly superior forces under McClellan, and the news that he was himself killed and his army scattered arrived within forty-eight hours of Colonel Chesnut's arrival in Richmond. 3. The plan was based on the improbable and inadmiss
S. Cooper (search for this): chapter 4.44
I was about to ascend to your quarters over my office, Captain E. P. Alexander, of your staff, informed me that Captain —, attached to General Johnston's Army of the Shenandoah, reported that he had been as far forward as Centreville, where he had seen the Federal army completely routed and in full flight toward Washington. This statement I at once repeated to Mr. Davis, General Johnston, and yourself, whom I found seated around your table—Mr. Davis at the moment writing a dispatch to General Cooper. As soon as I had made my report, Mr. Davis with much animation asserted the necessity for an urgent pursuit that night by Bonham, who, with his own brigade and that of Longstreet, was in close proximity to Centreville at the moment. So I took my seat at the same table with you, and wrote the order for pursuit, substantially at the dictation of Mr. Davis. But, while writing, either I happened to remember, or Captain Alexander himself—as I am inclined to believe—called me aside to r
Captain W. N. Pendleton (search for this): chapter 4.44
killed in the use of small arms, which, with their high pride and courage, might compensate for the want of training while in position, these inadequately substituted military instruction when manoeuvres had to be performed under fire, and could not make the old-fashioned musket equal to the long-range, new-model muskets with which the enemy was supplied. The disparity in artillery was still greater, both in the number and kind of guns; thanks to the skill and cool courage of the Reverend Captain W. N. Pendleton, his battery of light, smooth-bore guns, manned principally by the youths whose rector he had been, proved more effective in battle than the long-range rifle-guns of the enemy. The character of the ground brought the forces into close contact, and the ricochet of the round balls carried havoc into the columns of the enemy, while the bolts of their rifle-guns, if they missed their object, penetrated harmlessly into the ground. The field was very extensive, broken, and woode
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