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Wheeler (search for this): chapter 7.65
ng upon the details of the battle of the 6th and 7th of April, I will state that a reconnoissance in force, conducted on the 4th of April under the command of Colonel Wheeler, was made by that officer with such vigor, audacity and confidence that it ought to have been made plain to the Federal commander that it was the precursor ofents. I cannot now say whether or not this reconnoissance and the manner of it were due to your orders, but it is my recollection that the troops, as well as Colonel Wheeler, belonged to Bragg's corps and acted immediately under General Bragg's orders. Having at last reached a point known not to be more than four miles from Piturself with the corps commanders, you urged that such had been the tardiness in quitting Corinth, such the delay on the march and so plain the notice given by Colonel Wheeler's conflict with the enemy's outposts of our close proximity for the purpose of an offensive operation, the whole plan of operation had in effect been foiled,
Thomas Jordan (search for this): chapter 7.65
ecollections of General Beauregard's service in West Tennessee in the Spring of 1862. By General Thomas Jordan. New York, October 8th, 1874. General G. T. Beauregard, New Orleans, La.: My Deay the evacuation of Bowling Green, but that also of Columbus. Very sincerely your friend, Thomas Jordan. New York, November 2d, 1874. General G. T. Beauregard, New Orleans, La.: My Dear Gener and strike the enemy at Pittsburg landing. Written below were substantially these words: Colonel Jordan had better take this communication to General Johnston in person.--G. T. B. Having immedised in the summer of 1862 to the editor of the Savannah Republican. Very sincerely yours, Thomas Jordan. To the Editor of the Savannah Republican: My attention has been recently attracted to spirit without a parallel in war, and without abatement of the honor they had won for our arms, leaving the enemy stunned and unable to follow. Thomas Jordan. Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 8, 1862.
J. M. Otey (search for this): chapter 7.65
ted adversely to Monterey, you settled upon Corinth as your base of operations. Meanwhile, in several dispatches, you urged General Sidney Johnston, who had fallen back from Nashville in the direction of Stevenson, to join his forces to your own at the same point, and with the army thus assembled to fall upon and crush the Federal army at Pittsburg landing before it had been fully concentrated for offensive operations. One or more of your communications to this effect you sent by Captain J. M. Otey, of the Adjutant-General's staff, and by an Aid-de-Camp, Captain Ferguson, I believe. General Johnston, however, did not seem to see the necessity of the proposed concentration, but turning from the direction of Stevenson, preferred for the time to occupy Huntsville and the line of the Memphis and Charleston railroad for a short distance westward and separated about one hundred miles from your army. Your own forces you had organized into two nearly equal corps, the one under Major-
Samuel McDowell (search for this): chapter 7.65
s pertinent to say that it was some time after dark before many of the brigades were organized and in the positions assigned them. It is not becoming in me to speak of the capacity of General Beauregard, but I may be permitted to say that he is certainly the last officer against whom the charge of want of military enterprise can be established; for he is the commander who, before the metal of our troops had been tested, arranged his command of 18,500 men to accept battle with the army of McDowell, 50,000 strong, whose forces he actually engaged the 18th of July at Bull Run. Animated by the plain dictates of prudence and foresight, he sought to be ready for the coming storm, which he had anticipated and predicted as early as the afternoon of the 5th. To have continued the conflict another hour — that is, until darkness on the 6th instant--would not have resulted in the capture of Grant's army, wrecked even as it was and cowering under the high river banks, yet sheltered by his gu
G. T. Beauregard (search for this): chapter 7.65
Recollections of General Beauregard's service in West Tennessee in the Spring of 1862. By Generalan. New York, October 8th, 1874. General G. T. Beauregard, New Orleans, La.: My Dear Generalordan. New York, November 2d, 1874. General G. T. Beauregard, New Orleans, La.: My Dear Generall of the Abolitionists at the expense of General Beauregard. I know your correspondent well enough t Shiloh. Having been on the staff of General Beauregard during the battle of Shiloh, I happen toof extensive works at Pittsburg landing. General Beauregard had the concurrent evidence of prisonershad anticipated. It was, however, after General Beauregard had given his orders and made his arrangds of General Prentiss could bave shaken General Beauregard's convictions, even had he asked him anyonversation, which I know he did not. General Beauregard did know, however, that the enemy had guferent corps, divisions and brigades. General Beauregard had observed this, as well as the great [1 more...]
April 2nd, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 7.65
against the Federal army at Pittsburg landing. General Johnston left to you practically the functions of the immediate commander of the Confederate forces. The corps commanders severally made all their reports to you, either directly or through my office; while I, though issuing all orders which regulated the details of the service and every movement in the name of General Johnston, really received instructions thereupon from you and not from him. Thus it was when on the night of the 2d of April, 1862, General Cheatham, who commanded a division of Polk's corps, posted at Bethel station, on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, some twenty-four miles northward of Corinth, reported to his corps commander that a strong Federal force, believed to be General Lew Wallace's division, was menacing his immediate front. General Polk, having at once transmitted Cheatham's telegraphic dispatch to you, it was immediately sent by you to my office with your endorsement, nearly in these very words: Now is
October 8th, 1874 AD (search for this): chapter 7.65
Recollections of General Beauregard's service in West Tennessee in the Spring of 1862. By General Thomas Jordan. New York, October 8th, 1874. General G. T. Beauregard, New Orleans, La.: My Dear General — In compliance with your request, I make the following statement of my recollections of an important incident of your official visit to the headquarters of General Albert Sidney Johnston, at Bowling Green, Kentucky, early in the month of February, 1862. Upon leaving Centreville, Virginia, at the end of January, 1862, under orders attaching you to the Confederate forces in the West, you proceeded directly to Bowling Green to report to and confer with General Johnston; while, under your instructions, I repaired to Richmond to discuss with the Confederate Secretary of War certain matters, the arrangement of which you regarded as vital to the effective discharge of the duties that were to be devolved upon you. My orders were to meet you subsequently at Columbus, Kentucky, the
November 2nd, 1874 AD (search for this): chapter 7.65
were accumulated so great an amount of rolling stock, that the immediate swift transfer and concentration of the whole force upon Fort Donelson, or any other point on the line, were a certain and easy matter, and hence a vital element in all military plans and calculations at the moment. It remains to be added, that in the fall of Fort Donelson was involved not only the evacuation of Bowling Green, but that also of Columbus. Very sincerely your friend, Thomas Jordan. New York, November 2d, 1874. General G. T. Beauregard, New Orleans, La.: My Dear General — Resuming the series of my recollections of important facts connected with your service in West Tennessee in the spring of 1862, which you have asked me to communicate in this manner, I have now to state the circumstances under which the Confederate army was assembled at Corinth, and the movement undertaken against its adversary which reslulted in the battle of Shiloh. Having determined upon the evacuation of Columbus,
February 15th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 7.65
garrison at Fort Donelson, some 3,500 men — that is to say, in all about 45,000 men, who could, for the most part, be readily concentrated for any decisive operation. Your immediate recommendation, however, was that General Johnston should go with his force from Bowling Green to Fort Donelson, and there fall upon and crush General Grant, whose army was supposed to be not more than 15,000 strong, and which I may add was actually not increased to 25,000 men until the morning of the 15th of February, 1862. At the time of your recommendation it is probable that General Floyd, with the 5,000 men remaining after Zollicoffer's defeat, was already under orders for Fort Donelson; and, apparently as the result of your views, General Buckner was detached from the quarter of Bowling Green with a division of about 5,000 men, for the same destination So, from these two sources, by the time General Grant presented himself before Fort Donelson (February 12th, 1862) the position had been strengt
February 16th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 7.65
er Zollicoffer's defeat, was already under orders for Fort Donelson; and, apparently as the result of your views, General Buckner was detached from the quarter of Bowling Green with a division of about 5,000 men, for the same destination So, from these two sources, by the time General Grant presented himself before Fort Donelson (February 12th, 1862) the position had been strengthened from 3,500 to about 14,500 men — some 9,000 of whom, as will be remembered, were surrendered on the 16th of February, 1862, after having made the brilliant and signally successful sortie of the day before. What was effected in that well-conceived but badly-sustained sortie, in which only some 8,000 of the garrison were employed, must make patent what must have ensued had there been at Fort Donelson, as you recommended (and as there might have been), a Confederate army of about 30,000 men, with General Sidney Johnston in command, instead of the one of about 14,000 men, under an utterly inexperienced, inc
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