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J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 22 (search)
ers to destroy, the popular leaders. That way lies his own destruction. December 3 One of the President's Aids, Mr. Johnston, has asked the Secretary's permission for Mrs. E. B. Hoge, Mrs. M. Anderson, Miss Judith Venable, and Mrs. R. J. Brecling it a government of chief clerks and subordinate clerks. He hopes Mr. Seddon will not be merely a clerk. Gen. Jos. E. Johnston has written from the West a gloomy letter to Mr. Wigfall, Texan Senator. He says he is ordered to reinforce Lieu (as if he could do it! to concentrate all the armies of the West, and beat the enemy out of the Mississippi Valley. Gen. Johnston says Lieut.-Gen. Holmes has been ordered to reinforce Pemberton. Why, this is the very thing Mr. Randolph did, and lithout consulting him, by carpet knights and civilian lawyers. He says 8000 are now absent from his command-and that Gen. Johnston's army, last spring, was reduced from the same cause to 40,000 men, where he had to oppose 138,000 of the rascally Ya
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, XXII. January, 1863 (search)
g he had the whole field, and would follow the enemy, with this last one announcing his withdrawal and retirement from the field. Eight thousand men were taken from Bragg a few days before the battle. It was not done at the suggestion of Gen. Johnston; for I have seen an extract of a letter from Gen. J. to a Senator (Wigfall), deprecating the detachment of troops from Bragg, and expressing grave apprehensions of the probable consequences. A letter was received from R. R. Collier, Peteran at the battle of the Seven Pines, where his brigade retrieved the fortunes of the day; for at one time it was lost. He was also at Yorktown and Williamsburg; and he cannot yet cease condemning the giving up of the Peninsula, Norfolk, etc. Gen. Johnston did that, backed by Randolph and Mallory. We have all been mistaken in the number of troops sent to the rescue of North Carolina; but four or five regiments, perhaps 3000 men, have gone thither from Virginia. A letter from Gen. Lee, date
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, XXIII. February, 1863 (search)
hing. some fears for Vicksburg. Pemberton commands. Wise dashes into Williamsburg. rats take food from my daughter's hand. Lee wants the meat sent from Georgia to Virginia, where the fighting will be. Gen. Winder uneasy about my Diary. Gen. Johnston asks to be relieved in the West. February 1 The Virginia Legislature, now in session, has a bill under discussion for the suppression of extortion. One of the members, Mr. Anderson, read the following table of the prices of Agricult gunboat, attacked the Indianola, the iron-clad Federal gun-boat which got past our batteries the other day, and, after an engagement, sunk her. We captured all the officers and men. February 27 No news from any quarter to-day. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is discontented with his command in the West. The armies are too far asunder for co-operative action; and, when separated, too weak for decisive operations. There is no field there for him, and he desires to be relieved, and assigned t
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, Xxiv. March, 1863 (search)
It is estimated that we lost 250 men, killed, wounded, and taken, in the fight on the Rappahannock; the enemy's loss is not known, but certainly was heavy, since they were defeated, and fled back, hotly pursued. Confederate money still depreciates, in spite of the funding act. Some of the brokers are demanding ten dollars Confederate notes for one in gold! That is bad, and it may be worse. The enemy are advancing from Corinth, and there are not sufficient troops to resist them. Gen. Johnston says if men are taken from Bragg, his army may be destroyed; and none can be ordered from Mobile, where there are only 2500 for land defense. March 20 The snow is eight inches deep this morning, and it is still falling fast. Not a beggar is yet to be seen in this city of 100,000 inhabitants! Hood's division, mostly Texans, whose march to the Rappahannock was countermanded when it was ascertained that the enemy had been beaten back across the river, were all the morning defi
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, XXV. April, 1863 (search)
. Longstreet at Suffolk. the President's well eye said to be failing. a reconnoissance! we are planting much grain. picking up pins. beautiful season. Gen. Johnston in Tennessee. Longstreet's successes in that State. Lee complains that his army is not fed. we fear for Vicksburg now. enemy giving up plunder in Mississiphes to the effect that important movements are going on, not very distant from Charleston, the precise nature of which is not yet permitted to transpire. Generals Johnston and Bragg write that Gen. Pillow has secured ten times as many conscripts, under their orders, as the bureau in Richmond would have done. Judge Campbell, asmine. But we shall also have the horrid sounds of devastating war; and many a cheerful dame and damsel to-day, must soon put on the weeds of mourning. Gen. Jos. E. Johnston has assumed the command of the army of Tennessee. Gen. Howell Cobb is preparing for the defense of Florida. We do not hear a word from Lee or Jackson — bu
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 27 (search)
M. Lewis cuts his wheat to morrow, may 28th. Johnston says our troops are in fine spirits around Vid again. A letter was received from Gen. J. E. Johnston to-day. He is too unwell to take the ftively forbid the others. The letter from Gen. Johnston the other day said this traffic was subjug was a rumor on the street last ntght that Gen. Johnston had telegraphed the President that it woulns, which he abandoned in his retreat. Where Johnston is, is not stated. But, it is said, Vicksbur assault have been repulsed with heavy loss. Johnston is on the enemy's flank and rear, engenderingought since! We have a letter from Gen. Jos. E. Johnston, dated at Calhoun, Miss., 16th inst. Hrched to Edward's Station with 17,000 men. Gen. Johnston himself had 7500, and some 15,000 more wery be elected governor. A dispatch from Gen. Johnston, dated yesterday, says in every fight, so to capture Vicksburg immediately, and before Johnston collects an army in his rear. A few days may[2 more...]
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, XXVII. June, 1863 (search)
s say that Grant has lost 40,000 men so far. Where Johnston is, we have no knowledge; but in one of his recent the point of intensest interest and anxieties. Gen. Johnston writes from Canton, Mississippi, on the 5th inst Grant is receiving reinforcements dailywhile he (Johnston) is not to have more troops. He does not state thcult with an army twice as numerous as the one he (Johnston) commands. He will try to do something in aid of eve the government is acting on my suggestion to Col. Johnston, A. D. C., in regard to searching blockade-runneraddock also informs me that my communication to Col. Johnston was laid before the President, who called in the The President received a dispatch to-day from Gen. Johnston, stating that Lt.-Gen. Kirby Smith had taken Mily of War to send him all the correspondence with Gen. Johnston, as he intends to write him a confidential lette, Mr. H. is opposed to. Mr. H. is willing to trust Johnston, has not lost confidence in him, etc. And he tells
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 29 (search)
. President is sick. Grant marching against Johnston at Jackson. fighting at that place. Yankeesalas I we have sad tidings from the West. Gen. Johnston telegraphs from Jackson, Miss., that Vicksend him copies of all the correspondence with Johnston and Bragg, etc., on the subject of the reliefn (supposed), is marching on Jackson, to give Johnston battle. But Johnston will retire-he has not Johnston will retire-he has not men enough to withstand him, until he leads him farther into the interior. If beaten, Mobile might here can be no doubt. The following is Gen. Johnston's dispatch announcing the fall of Vicksburited States. Another dispatch, from Gen. J. E. Johnston, dated yesterday, at Jackson, Miss., staper treasury will be established. Gen. Jos. E. Johnston has recently drawn for $20,000 in goldhere a day, but will proceed up the river. Gen. Johnston asks if this eccentric movement does not in are to come from is not stated-perhaps from Johnston. July 29 Still raining The great fear i[1 more...]
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, XXIX. August, 1863 (search)
ncurrence of the President and the Secretary of War, to Gen. Johnston and Gov. Pettus. What can this mean? Perhaps he is buore; and then it may be possible a portion of Bragg's and Johnston's armies may be ordered hither. If this should be done, to besiege Richmond. Well, we shall, in that event, have Johnston and Bragg-altogether 200,000 men around the city, which to Mississippi, stopped and stampeded Grant's army, after Johnston retreated from Jackson, with his subterra batteries. It ng that he advance into Middle Tennessee, reinforced by Gen. Johnston, and attack Rosecrans; Gen. Bragg replied (8th inst.) that with all the reinforcements he could get from Johnston, he would not have more than 40,000 effective men, while Rosecran. What for? To-day I saw a copy of a dispatch from Gen. Johnston to the President, dated at Morton, Miss., 22d August, sia, Alabama, and Tennessee unite in the request; also Generals Johnston and Bragg. Gen. Pillow already has Mississippi, Tenne
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, XXX. September, 1863 (search)
hirty days leave, in large numbers, and that the men never can be reorganized to serve again under Pemberton. Gen. Jos. E. Johnston writes from Morton, Miss., that he is disposing his force to oppose any raids of the enemy, and that he shall keehe western route, as the enemy possesses the Knoxville Road. The weather is excessively dry and dusty again. Gen. Jos. E. Johnston, Morton, Miss., writes that such is the facility of giving information to the enemy, that it is impossible to kee it, as he alleged, from falling into the hands of the enemy. During the siege, he got 250,000 percussion caps from Gen. Johnston's scouts, and 150,000 from the enemy's pickets, for a consideration. There was abundance of powder. The ammunition a Richmond again. Yet I am told the very name of RichmonA is a terror to the foe. September 13 A letter from Gen. J. E. Johnston, Atlantawhither he had repaired to attend a Court of Inquiry relating to Pemberton's operations, but which has be
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