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T. H. Holmes (search for this): chapter 14
the Chesapeake, and the Rappahannock, including the counties along the southern bank of the latter river from its mouth to Fredericksburg, was assigned to Major-General Holmes. On its left, the Valley District, between the Blue Ridge and the Alleghanies, was assigned to Major-General Jackson. All were brought into one departmens recited in the report were entertained, they rested on the accomplishment of one great condition, namely, that a junction of the forces of Generals Johnston and Holmes should be made with the army of General Beauregard, and should gain a victory. The junction was made, the victory was won, but the consequences that were predictan the date at which it was effected, and Bull Run would have been fought with the combined forces of both Generals Johnston and Beauregard, to say nothing of General Holmes, who naturally would have followed and joined in the movement, and McDowell's army would have been annihilated, or turned and cut off from Washington. Mr.
Samuel Jones (search for this): chapter 14
el James Chestnut of South Carolina, one of General Beauregard's aids. This officer carried with him a written memorandum dictated by General Beauregard to Colonel Sam. Jones, on the evening of the 13th of July, containing all the main features of the military operations, acknowledged to be brilliant and comprehensive, but, unfortunately, opposed at Richmond, and no less unfortunately rejected. See, in Appendix to Chapter VIII., letter of General (then Colonel) Sam. Jones, about written memorandum given to Colonel Chestnut by General Beauregard. Mr. Davis, after showing great incredulity as to having ever entertained such a plan—one of the most impe more strange, inasmuch as he was then in possession, not only of Colonel Chestnut's report, sent him by General Beauregard at his own request, but also of General Sam. Jones's letter, which bore witness that the plan referred to in the report of the battle of Manassas was substantially the same as the one proposed by him through
Roger A. Pryor (search for this): chapter 14
eve Burnside's expedition is intended for Wilmington, to cut off railroad to Charleston. Let government look to it. G. T. Beauregard. Hon. James L. Kemper, Speaker House of Delegates, Richmond, Va. Referring to this despatch, Colonel R. A. Pryor, then a Member of Congress, wrote as follows: I took the liberty of reading your telegram. The effect of its patriotic sentiment on Congress would have been most grateful to your feelings had you witnessed it. An effort was made to supve months volunteers, the army would consist mostly of raw recruits, in opposition to a force comparatively veteran, and superior both in numbers and in all the appointments of war. Accordingly, on the 20th of January, he communicated to the Hon. Roger A. Pryor, of the Confederate House of Representatives, a plan with the following main features: The governors of the States, upon an immediate call by the Confederate government, to fill the regiments in the field to their legal standard, by a dr
Thomas Jordan (search for this): chapter 14
ances for merely local services. Meanwhile, a widespread spirit of discontent arose, from withholding the publication of the orders of the department respecting furloughs; and General Beauregard again found himself in the embarrassing position of being addressed and looked to by the War Department as the commander of the army, while in reality he had not been invested with such command by the commander of the military department. To put an end to this embarrassing state of affairs, Colonel Jordan, his Chief of Staff, urged upon General Beauregard the advisability of dropping his practice of dating his orders from Headquarters 1st Corps Army of the Potomac, and of informing General Johnston of the change, in order to avoid clashing with the War Department. General Beauregard acknowledged the soundness of the advice, which had already presented itself to his mind, but, through a feeling of delicacy towards General Johnston, and being reluctant to appear, in any way, to encroach upo
G. T. Beauregard (search for this): chapter 14
m which had been urgently recommended by General Beauregard in the early part of June. The Potomae would probably have prevailed, had not General Beauregard, in the same spirit which had prompted hgent one, General Johnston, no less than General Beauregard, incurred the displeasure of the Presiidared notes, taken under the dictation of General Beauregard himself. It is, therefore, superfluous shows that the first and main feature of General Beauregard's plan, to which the others were mere cos it appear that they (Generals Johnston and Beauregard) have since believed themselves in a conditi the different parts of his criticism of General Beauregard's report of the battle of Manassas. We . I remain, Sir, respectfully, etc., G. T. Beauregard, General. After using his best en term of two or three years, or the war, General Beauregard revoked, but with great reluctance, the the department respecting furloughs; and General Beauregard again found himself in the embarrassing [75 more...]
Burnside (search for this): chapter 14
th, 1862. General Beauregard: Hon. Mr. Pryor wishes to know, confidentially, if you wish report of the battle of Manassas to be published, and, if published, must all, or a part, be published, omitting preliminary statement. Congress discusses the matter tomorrow. James L. Kemper. The next day General Beauregard sent this reply: Centreville, Va., January 10th, 1862. Let Congress do for the best. We must think of the country before we think of ourselves. I believe Burnside's expedition is intended for Wilmington, to cut off railroad to Charleston. Let government look to it. G. T. Beauregard. Hon. James L. Kemper, Speaker House of Delegates, Richmond, Va. Referring to this despatch, Colonel R. A. Pryor, then a Member of Congress, wrote as follows: I took the liberty of reading your telegram. The effect of its patriotic sentiment on Congress would have been most grateful to your feelings had you witnessed it. An effort was made to suppress the
McClellan (search for this): chapter 14
December there came occasional warnings and menaces of attack, to which, in fact, the United States authorities and General McClellan were constantly urged by the more impatient part of the Northern people and press; and a watchful state of preparatrces 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 Chestnut's egard's plan—the more necessary in the exigency, as any military man may see. The co-operation with Garnett against McClellan was but a possible incident of the scheme of campaign, and could not properly have weighed in deciding the main questio results, even if not followed by the proposed movement into Maryland, and on the rear of Washington, would have driven McClellan back into Ohio, or, if he had ventured a farther advance into Virginia, would have left him at our mercy. The third
A. C. Myers (search for this): chapter 14
wrote: The want of food and transportation has made us lose all the fruits of our victory. We ought, at this time, the 29th July, to be in or about Washington, and from all accounts Washington could have been taken up to the 24th instant, by twenty thousand men. Every news from there confirms me still more in that opinion. For several days' (about one week) after the battle, I could not put my new regiments in position for want of transportation. I do not say this to injure my friend Colonel Myers, but to benefit the service. We have, no doubt, by our success here, achieved glory for the country, but I am fighting for something more real and tangible, i. e., to save our homes and firesides from our Northern invaders, and to maintain our freedom and independence as a nation. It is not desirable to repeat here the main reasons which prevented the consequences predicted as the result of the victory won, after the long-prayed — for junction of General Johnston's forces with Genera
D. H. Hill (search for this): chapter 14
offered by Colonel Miles to General Beauregard, in substitution for one nearly similar in emblem and pattern, but different in the distribution of colors, suggested to him by General Beauregard when the latter was seeking to procure a change in the Confederate flag. And it was now proposed anew to the General by Colonel Walton, who had Mr. Hancock's design. To render it more portable, it was made square instead of oblong, by order of General Johnston. In the beginning of December, General D. H. Hill was sent to relieve General Evans in the important command at Leesburg, with instructions to fall back to the main army at Centreville in the event of an advance on the latter place, as Colonel Hunton had done before the battle of Manassas. During the remainder of December there came occasional warnings and menaces of attack, to which, in fact, the United States authorities and General McClellan were constantly urged by the more impatient part of the Northern people and press; and a
James Chestnut (search for this): chapter 14
Jones, about written memorandum given to Colonel Chestnut by General Beauregard. Mr. Davis, aft, inquiry having developed the fact, that Colonel Chestnut did, in effect, verbally deliver a messagenemy, ably and exhaustively explained by Colonel Chestnut, in a conference granted him by the Presias he was then in possession, not only of Colonel Chestnut's report, sent him by General Beauregard one proposed by him through the medium of Colonel Chestnut. Early in the month of June, Bonham's d aggression, communicated to him through Colonel Chestnut. We mention it here, that our silence ma. It was based, as related from memory by Colonel Chestnut, on the supposition of drawing a force ofnt could have had. This is established by Colonel Chestnut's official report, already referred to, wstration of the kind. On the other hand, Colonel Chestnut's report shows that General Beauregard hatered arrived within forty-eight hours of Colonel Chestnut's arrival in Richmond. This reference[6 more...]
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