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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 21: General Polk and Columbus, Kentucky. (search)
o Richmond. appointed Brigadier-General. the Bishop-soldier. appearance. anecdotes. command in West Tennessee. services. force. occupation of Columbus. River-defenses. Polk's subsequent career. Governor Reynolds's recollections of General Johnston at Columbus. his plans. anecdotes. habits. As General Polk felt unwilling to leave his post at Columbus, just at this juncture, and as General Johnston wished to obtain as full a knowledge as possible. of his line of defense, he went General Johnston wished to obtain as full a knowledge as possible. of his line of defense, he went thither on the 18th of September. It was a great pleasure to him to meet again, after the lapse of many years, his old comrade. It was no small consideration to feel that he had in so responsible a position a friend to whose loyalty of heart and native chivalry he could trust entirely, and one who, if long unused to arms, was yet, by virtue of early training, and a bold, aggressive spirit, every inch a soldier. General Polk's great services, his close public and private relations with the
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 22: efforts to get arms and troops. (search)
ptember 19th, from Columbus, Kentucky, by General Johnston, giving reports received from his agents umber or quality of fire-arms remedied in General Johnston's lifetime. It was a constant obstacle tts. In a letter of the same date with General Johnston's assignment to command, September 10th, produced by it. It not only extinguished General Johnston's hopes of being able to assume the offenors that he will receive no more men. General Johnston, as an old soldier, as a regular officer,on of an army adequate to the emergency. General Johnston's hope lay in the rapid assemblage of a lest upon the loyalty of his friendship to General Johnston. Nevertheless, both the importance and tember 15th, in allusion to these matters, General Johnston says: Sir: I have the honor to acknd from him. The following extract is from General Johnston's letter of January 5, 1862, to the secre, from the foregoing correspondence, that General Johnston had lost no opportunity to press upon the[32 more...]
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 23: Bowling Green. (search)
e. General Carroll in East Tennessee. General Johnston's command in Kentucky consisted of three sas politicians a vigorous remonstrance. General Johnston was not indifferent to the military situaerty are not yet extinct in Kentucky. General Johnston now addressed himself to the reorganizatirevented any valuable achievement. Under General Johnston, however, Hardee was with a superior offiuring small bodies of Union recruits. General Johnston was anxious to fortify rapidly and formidr to the Secretary of War, November 15th, General Johnston thus explains his situation: I there by a force inferior to the invader. General Johnston, desiring to improve the organization of t projected against him at this time. General Johnston's policy from the beginning had been to kconclusively that he thought exactly what General Johnston wished him to think in regard to the Confappily, he recovered from his wounds. General Johnston ordered General Carroll from Memphis with[27 more...]
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Appendix B. (search)
ed, some of which were then doing service, such as those commanded by Garrard, Pope, Ward, Hobson, Grider, McHenry, Jackson, Burbridge, Bruce, and others. By reference to Van Horne's work, it will be found that a number of these were brigaded December 3d. Nor is any account taken of the numerous organizations of Home Guards. General Sherman estimated the Confederate force from Bowling Green to Clarksville at from 25,000 to 30,000 men-double their real numbers. Appendix B (2). General Johnston estimated the Federal force in his front at 15,000 to 20,000; in the Lower Green River country at 3,000; near Camp Dick Robinson, at 10,000; and elsewhere in Northern Kentucky, at 10,000. These figures were substantially correct. Sherman's command, from his own account, may be tabulated thus: Fourteen regiments at Nolin (his figures)13,000 Twenty-eight regiments mentioned (estimated)26,000 Nelson's command4,000 Ten regiments not mentioned,000 Total48,000 This does not inc
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Appendix B (2). (search)
Appendix B (2). General Johnston estimated the Federal force in his front at 15,000 to 20,000; in the Lower Green River country at 3,000; near Camp Dick Robinson, at 10,000; and elsewhere in Northern Kentucky, at 10,000. These figures were substantially correct. Sherman's command, from his own account, may be tabulated thus: Fourteen regiments at Nolin (his figures)13,000 Twenty-eight regiments mentioned (estimated)26,000 Nelson's command4,000 Ten regiments not mentioned,000 Total48,000 This does not include Home Guards.
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 26: battle of Fishing Creek. (search)
rittenden marched his army through Monticello and Livingston to Gainsboro, and, finally, by General Johnston's orders, took position at Chestnut Mound, where he was in reach of relief from Nashville. an exchange of prisoners was begun by General Buell, during which he accepted a proposal of General Johnston to exempt from captivity surgeons in charge of the wounded. General Buell's conduct and thth most of the Southern troops. Crittenden's attack on Thomas was as much a surprise to General Johnston as the result could have been to the defeated commander. His line was broken; his position, demanded a court of inquiry, which was subsequently ordered by the Secretary of War. But General Johnston's letters make no allusion to the defeat. That was past. His whole attention was turned ts proper location, to its commissariat, transportation, rearmament, and reorganization. General Johnston, in writing to General Crittenden, February 3d, after enumerating the various steps taken f
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 27: Fort Henry. (search)
e efforts of the North. their gunboats. General Johnston's warnings and precautions. origin of Feant-general, wrote to General Polk: General Johnston directs you to send Lieutenant Dixon to Fctober Major Jeremy F. Gilmer reported to General Johnston, as his chief-engineer. Gilmer was a Norn, by his correspondence in January, that General Johnston used every endeavor to animate his subordnently judicious; but Halleck, overrating General Johnston's force and means of resistance, adds, Buth river-obstructions, took up eight. General Johnston's letters had constantly urged upon his sd another to Memphis. On January 27th General Johnston wrote Polk, Tilghman's immediate commandelry and artillery horses moving by land. General Johnston's army at Bowling Green had numbered, Deceks longer. The following letter from General Johnston to the adjutant-general, written January the nearest telegraph-office. On the 5th General Johnston ordered a regiment, just armed, from Nash[44 more...]
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 28: Fort Donelson. (search)
ws of surrender. congressional inquiry. General Johnston's inquiry. Governor Johnson's opinion. Russellville; and, to meet this movement, General Johnston detached Floyd, on January 20th, with hisl these dispositions were made as soon as General Johnston heard of the advance upon Fort Henry, androm Henry, stopped at Donelson; and, with General Johnston's authority, engaged actively in preparatll be thought sufficient. At all events, General Johnston felt that he had done all that he could ddence, telegraphic and by letter, between General Johnston and his subordinates on the Cumberland. tions. At 10.30 P. M., February 12th, General Johnston again telegraphed General Floyd: Myence with Pillow, and was not received by General Johnston until after Floyd's movement, and as he catch or not — it is now impossible to say-General Johnston on the next day sent him the following tesponsible work of high military command. General Johnston's ability to divest himself of this prope[28 more...]
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 29: the retreat from Bowling Green. (search)
map, the general and Colonel Bowen were standing, the former giving evidently an explanation of its military positions. In the course of their conversation, General Johnston directed Colonel Bowen's attention to a position upon this map, which had been marked by the engineers, Shiloh Church, and, concluding his remarks, he laid ed to our memory in the strongest manner when Brigadier-General Bowen and myself were actually engaged in the terrible conflict, which the prophetic words of General Johnston had fully three months previously predicted. Meeting General Bowen upon the battle-field of Shiloh Church, shortly after he (General Bowen) had been woundedese facts simply as they occurred, without any addition whatsoever; but you must permit me here to state my firm conviction that this incident in the life of General Johnston was not a singular chance, as sometimes will happen in the life of man, but gloriously illustrating the strategic genius of the lamented general. With the i
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 30: from Murfreesboro to Corinth. (search)
no attack. The following letters from General Johnston to the Secretary of War give a brief but of General Johnston informed me that he (General Johnston) wished to speak to me. Upon entering histhe Federal generals into the belief that General Johnston intended to retreat on Chattanooga, and m west of the mountains. It was here that General Johnston assumed command of the army on the 23d ofn of them to the mercies of the invader. General Johnston was, of course, the special target of eveosed the young men, already dissatisfied with Johnston, to lay down their arms, and paved the way togoodwill, confidence, and respect, toward General Johnston, but somewhat timidly, as if overawed by egraphed thus: Memphis, March 1, 1862. If Johnston and Hardee are not removed, the army is demoral Preston also states to the writer that General Johnston felt complete confidence in his ability tdence, which has been published in part. General Johnston's letter of March 18th has been much admi[41 more...]
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