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W. H. Carroll (search for this): chapter 23
me a copy of the order issued by Acting Assistant Adjutant-General Groner, directing that no twelve months volunteer company, battalion, or regiment, shall be mustered into the Confederate service, unless armed; and, also, giving notice that General Carroll has been directed to muster out of service Colonel Gillespie's regiment. Believing as I do that the public interest requires that the department over which you preside should fully comprehend the practical operation of this order, I beg tered out of service and disbanded, we would to-day have been without a force to check the advance of the enemy, and our borders would have been open to the invaders. In reference to Colonel Gillespie's regiment, it is proper to state that General Carroll had reported it to me as armed, and I had ordered it to this place; and it is earnestly hoped that neither this nor any other regiment will be disbanded, for the reason that the men have not, at the day of mustering, arms in their hands. Th
William Preston Johnston (search for this): chapter 23
difficulties of the Government. call for militia. General Johnston's urgency. letters to the Southern Executives. appeessary for defense, exhibited by the Gulf States. General Johnston fully foresaw the difficulties and dangers of his poss to the Memphis Historical Society, Colonel Munford, General Johnston's aide-de-camp, states the essential question, and anssemble an army equal to the emergency was not due to General Johnston. While the writer will have occasion frequently to eat in no point of vigilance, decision, or energy, was General Johnston at fault. The narrative of military operations is therefore postponed, and the facts in regard to General Johnston's efforts to obtain men and arms are here grouped together, tchannels of the civil service. Experience had taught General Johnston, what subsequent events of the war proved to other ge troops, it will be proper to show the means used by General Johnston to procure arms. This will be best done, though at t
Thomas K. Jackson (search for this): chapter 23
he same extent still. I beg your influence with the volunteers to induce them to bring into the field every effective arm in their possession. Rifles and shot-guns-double-barreled guns in particular-can be made effective weapons in the hands of your skilled horsemen. These arms will be replaced in the hands of the troops by uniform arms at the shortest practicable period. I have selected the following points in your States for the rendezvous of this force, viz.: Knoxville, Nashville, Jackson, Trenton, and Memphis. At each of these places officers will be in readiness to muster in companies, battalions, and regiments, as soon as organized, for the war, or for twelve months, as they decide to serve. At these designated places provision will be made for supplies, and the instruction of the troops will be prosecuted until they can be armed and prepared to move to the frontier. The proportion of troops to be ordered to these different points, depending upon the districts from
Jefferson Davis (search for this): chapter 23
s, is infallible. Differences of opinion exist among the wisest. In this case, they were inevitable from the different standpoints of the parties. The writer can bear testimony to the zeal, patriotism, and versatile talents, of Mr. Benjamin. Mr. Davis's cordial affection and confidence were too often and too clearly demonstrated for a doubt to rest upon the loyalty of his friendship to General Johnston. Nevertheless, both the importance and the danger of the situation in Tennessee were undeentered on the war under the idea that, as the right of peaceable secession was theirs, no serious attempt at conquest would be made, and its political leaders adhered to this opinion till the vastness of the actual war dispelled the illusion. Mr. Davis, indeed, better foresaw the magnitude of the contest, and had predicted and endeavored to prepare for a long and great war; but at this time he was rather the chairman of a junta modeled for counsel instead of action, than the real ruler of the
C. F. Smith (search for this): chapter 23
t attack, the North embarrassed at home, menaced with war by England, will shrink foiled from the conflict, and the freedom of the South will be forever established. If, however, the battle of independence is to be fought here, the history of Mississippi and the character of her gallant people compel me to believe that they would be among the first and stanchest to stand by their brethren in arms. I have intrusted this letter to the care of the lion. the Chief-Justice of your State, Judge Smith, to deliver, with my request to inform your Excellency of all such details as are of importance, and to urge upon you the necessity of sending forward to this place every armed man that can be spared from Mississippi at the earliest moment. With great respect, your obedient servant, A. S. Johnston, General C. S. A. His Excellency J. J. Pettus, Governor of Mississippi. A letter to the same purport was addressed to Governor Harris, with a full recognition of the energetic and eff
Albert Sidney Johnston (search for this): chapter 23
sabres to Tennessee, which I have contracted for in Georgia. Very respectfully, General A. S. Johnston, General C. S. A., Nashville. Governor Brown made the following reply, from Atlanta,sible task before you, I am, most respectfully, your obedient servant, Braxton Bragg. General A. S. Johnston, Nashville, Tennessee. But, that no stone might be left unturned to effect his object,will be allowed. Your obedient servant, J. P. Benjamin, Acting Secretary of War. General A. S. Johnston, Columbus, Kentucky. Thus, it will be seen, the only immediate result of this appeal iisposable moans. Your obedient servant, J. P. Benjamin, Acting Secretary of War. General A. S. Johnston, bowling Green, Kentucky. General Johnston's reply was as follows: In making tularity in all our movements. I am, with great regard, yours truly, J. P. Benjamin. General A. S. Johnston, Bowling Green, Kentucky. The circular accompanying this letter states: 1. No unarmed
M. H. Wright (search for this): chapter 23
riotic citizen, and had done good work. Ordnance-shops and workshops had been established at Nashville and Memphis, which were transferred to the Confederate Government, and proved of the greatest service. Under the efficient command of Captains M. H. Wright and W. R. Hunt, everything possible, with the means at command, was accomplished. Twelve or fourteen batteries were fitted out at Memphis by the 1st of October. At the same date, the powder-mills at Nashville were making 400 pounds of pforts were employed to collect these rude and imperfect weapons, and to adapt them to military uses. Though far below the necessities of the occasion, the success of these efforts, under all the circumstances, was admirable. The reports of Captain Wright, under whose direction the arms were altered and repaired, show the almost insuperable difficulties of equipping an improvised army. He says: About one-fourth of the arms brought in were without lock or stock, much worn, and utterly wo
January 8th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 23
ughly and confidentially informed on the condition of things at headquarters. Colonel Liddell's mission was conducted with energy and tact, and was beneficial. But it was too late; one blow after another was struck with intelligence and vigor by the Northern commanders, and a series of misfortunes followed that will be narrated in their place. These two letters were evidently written as the last resort against the impending disasters: headquarters, Western Department, Bowling Green, January 8, 1862. Sir: The calls made upon the Government from every assailable point on our frontier for additional force would make me hesitate to add to your embarrassment by asking for reinforcements, were the gravity of the occasion less which urges me to press upon your attention the effort about to be made by the Federal Government with a large army (estimated on reliable data at not less than 80,000) to invade the Confederacy through Central Kentucky toward Tennessee. They have justly compre
September 10th (search for this): chapter 23
ed consternation within the Federal lines. But, under existing arrangements, the main reliance for recruiting an army was the machinery of the State governments. In a letter of the same date with General Johnston's assignment to command, September 10th, the adjutant-general says to him: You have authority to call for troops from Arkansas, Tennessee, and such portion of Mississippi as may be within the limits of your command. You have also authority to receive into the service such trd by the following correspondence. On the 16th of October the Secretary of War wrote the following letter to General Johnston, disapproving of his requisition on Mississippi, though it had been made in accordance with the instructions given September 10th, and heretofore quoted: Your call for troops on Mississippi and other States will, I am informed, produce embarrassment. When General Polk was sent to take command of the department now under your orders, he was instructed that he might
January 12th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 23
l be made against this place; we ought not, surely, to put in jeopardy the result, by failing to meet it with a force sufficient to place success beyond hazard. With great respect, your obedient servant, (Signed) A. S. Johnston, General C. S. A. Hon. J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of War. The stringency with which the Secretary of War enforced his order against twelve months volunteers may be inferred from the following correspondence: headquarters, Western Department, Bowling Green, January 12, 1862. Sir: Adjutant-General Whitthorne, of Tennessee, has inclosed me a copy of the order issued by Acting Assistant Adjutant-General Groner, directing that no twelve months volunteer company, battalion, or regiment, shall be mustered into the Confederate service, unless armed; and, also, giving notice that General Carroll has been directed to muster out of service Colonel Gillespie's regiment. Believing as I do that the public interest requires that the department over which you pres
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