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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 2 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Joseph E. Johnston. (search)
less than by seeking battle; that a march or manoeuvre at the right time, is more potent than a battle at the wrong time; that to seize a position which will threaten the adverse army the instant it does move, may far exceed the value of an attack upon it, if it does not; that the circuit of a large and politic strategy is wider and higher, and makes its demands upon an intellectual grasp more subtle and more vivid, than the mere rapture of pitched battle. This was the instruction of which Fabius and Marcellus were the apt pupils, and Hannibal the school-master. It is idle now to speculate as to what might have happened, had Johnston been allowed to be the real main spring of movements he was so fitted to direct; if the substance of his important command had been delivered to him. Fortune opposed him with an iron heart, which no excellence could touch. He opposed fortune with an iron will, which, unconquered and undismayed, has outlived fortune's worst and triumphed over it. His
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson. (search)
est, greatest, there was none like him, none! Whatever record leaps to light, his never shall be shamed! Truth walked beside him always, From his childhood's early years, Honor followed as his shadow, Valor lightened all his cares; And he rode—that grand Virginian— Last of all the Cavaliers! To resume for a moment the parallel previously drawn, I think that in the qualities of their military genius, Washington and Lee —I name them in the order of time—had many points in common. Fabius was not more adroit in defense than either, nor more dexterous in the husbanding of a small force against preponderent numbers. But the characteristic of both was pugnacity, and the campaigns of Lee in Virginia, as those of Washington in the Jerseys, were superb examples of what is technically known as the offensive-defensive. The vigilance of both was sleepless; both were acute in penetrating the designs and anticipating the movements of the enemy; neither ever willingly neglected an opp
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The life and character of Robert Edward Lee. (search)
est, greatest, there was none like him, none! Whatever record leaps to light, his never shall be shamed! Truth walked beside him always, From his childhood's early years, Honor followed as his shadow, Valor lightened all his cares; And he rode—that grand Virginian— Last of all the Cavaliers! To resume for a moment the parallel previously drawn, I think that in the qualities of their military genius, Washington and Lee —I name them in the order of time—had many points in common. Fabius was not more adroit in defense than either, nor more dexterous in the husbanding of a small force against preponderent numbers. But the characteristic of both was pugnacity, and the campaigns of Lee in Virginia, as those of Washington in the Jerseys, were superb examples of what is technically known as the offensive-defensive. The vigilance of both was sleepless; both were acute in penetrating the designs and anticipating the movements of the enemy; neither ever willingly neglected an opp
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Why we failed to win. (search)
etreated, never to revisit the positions which they had abandoned, and the people came to understand that this abandonment was final. This constant retreating was not always necessitated by attacks and defeat at the hands of a superior force of the enemy, but was in obedience to a fixed plan of strategy named from the Roman general, Fabius Maximus, who in his campaigns against Hannibal made it a rule to avoid battle and always to retreat. Hannibal defeated all the troops he ever met, but Fabius, by eluding battle with the great Carthaginian, succeeded in a campaign that lasted thirteen years in wearing out his enemy, which could get no recruits or reinforcements from Carthage across the Mediterranean. Whether the great Federal armies could have been worn out and eventually ruined by a systematic course of retreat and evasion on the part of the Confederate forces does not appear, as it was not carried out to a conclusion. They saw their homes given up to the possession of the e
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
n at his post, and not relax a fibre until the great work is completed, the great battle fought and the glorious victory achieved. The delay of the Convention for a single week to pass the Ordinance of Secession, will have a blighting and chilling influence upon the action of the other Southern States. The opponents of the movement everywhere will be encouraged to make another effort to rally their now disorganized and scattered forces to defeat our action and stay our on ward march. Fabius conquered by delay, and there are those of his school, though with a more unworthy purpose, who, shrinking from open and manly attack, use this veil to hide their deformity, and from a masked battery to discharge their missiles. But I trust they will strike the armor of truth and fall harmless at our feet, and that by the 28th of December no flag but the Palmetto will float over any part of South Carolina. It only remains for me to request the appointment of a Committee to examine the acco
The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Defensive campaigns. (search)
h thing as a campaign purely defensive, but that in every campaign the party defending sometimes takes the initiative. We begin with Fabius Maximus, who gave name to what is called the Fabian system — a system, by the by, greatly misunderstood. Fabius was appointed Pro-Dictator immediately after the bloody defeat of the Roman army at Thrasymene. The system which he adopted was probably the only one that could have saved the republic; but it was not a purely defensive system — that is, he did was pursuing his quasi defensive system in Italy, the Romans were pursuing a prodigiously active system of offence abroad. Marcellus took Syracuse, and Scipio invaded and conquered Spain, and finally carried the war into Hannibal's own country. Fabius opposed this last enterprise, maintaining that Hannibal should be driven from Italy before the war should be carried abroad. Neverthless, notwithstanding his high authority, it seems to us very doubtful whether the Romans would ever have gotten
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], (search)
t posts it is necessary for us to what time, and by what , we ought enter where it is proper to have magazines; from whence, either by sea or land, we are to bring provisions; when we are to fight the enemy, and when lie, . They not only prescribe what is best to do, but for little from their plans, they make it a crime in their counsel, and him before their tribunal. But know, Romans, the effect of this is very prejudicial to your Generals. All have not the resolution and constancy of Fabius, to despise impertinent reports. He could choose rather to suffer the people, upon such unhappy rumor, to invade his authority, than to ruin affairs, in order to preserve their opinion, and an empty same. I am far from believing that Generals stand in no need of advice; I think, on the contrary, that whoever would conduct everything alone, upon his own opinion, and without counsel, shown more presumption than prudence. But some may ask, how then shall we act reasonably? In not suffering
The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], A Lesson from history. (search)
nvading the countries of others, to draw back and defend his own. To this end he made use of all the credit and favor he had with the people, and assiduously courting them, left no popular act united that he might gain them to second his design. Fabius, on the other side, opposed with all his might this undertaking of Scipio telling the people that nothing but the temerity of a hot young man could inspire them will such dangerous counsels, which, by drawing away their forces to parts so remote,wholly devoted to him. On the other side, Crassus would not stir against him, nor remove out of Italy, as being in his own nature an enemy to striate and contention, and also as having the care of religion by his office of high priest. Wherefore Fabius tried other wave to break the design; he declaimed both in the Senate and to the people that Scipio did not only himself fly from Hannibal, but did also endeavor to drain Italy of all their forces, and to spirit away the youth of the country to a
The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], An Ancient speech. (search)
ines should be formed; how provisions should be conveyed by land and sea; and when it is proper to engage the enemy; when to lie quiet. And they not only determine what is best to be done, but if anything is done is any other manner than what they have pointed out, they arraign the consul as if he was on trial before them. These are great impediments to those who have the management of affairs; for every one cannot encounter injurious reports with the same constancy and firmness of mind as Fabius did who chose to let his own authority be diminished through the folly of the people rather than to mismanage the public business with a high reputation. "I am not one of those who think that commanders ought not to receive advice; on the contrary, I should deem that man more proud than wise who regulated every proceeding by the standard of his own single judgment. What, then, is my opinion? That commanders ought to be advised chiefly by persons of knowledge; by those who have made th
The Daily Dispatch: August 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Fourth of July celebration by the Miscegenations on President Davis's plantation. (search)
Reinstated. --Watchman B. H. Franklin, who was suspended from duty by the Mayor a few days since on account of certain charges which were alleged against him, underwent an examination before His Honor at the lower station-house yesterday morning, and the evidence failing to convict him of any offence he was reinstated in his old position.--At the same time the charges pending against Fabius and Marcellus Hicks, also members of the night police, were taken up and witnesses examined; but, for reasons which were not made known, the Mayor reserved his decision till this morning, and in the meantime the parties remain suspended.
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