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J. E. Johnston (search for this): chapter 42
ennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi, and that portion of the State of Louisiana east of the Mississippi River. The order concluded in the following language: General Johnston will, for the purpose of correspondence and reports, establish his headquarters at Chattanooga, or such other place as in his judgment will best secure commuwere forwarded by him under the following despatch from me of May 22d: The vital issue of holding the Mississippi at Vicksburg is dependent on the success of General Johnston in an attack on the investing force. The intelligence from there is discouraging. Can you aid him? If so, and you are wz/iout orders from General 70hnston by refraining from an answer, to seem to admit the justice of some of the statements. Respectfully, etc., (Signed) Jefferson Davis. Telegrams sent by General Johnston from Jackson, Miss., to Richmond, Va. May 28, 1863. To President Davis: It is reported that the last infantry coming leave Montgomery to-night. When
Joe Johnston (search for this): chapter 42
Chapter 42: President Davis's letter to General Johnston after the fall of Vicksburg. Richmond, July 15, 1863. General J. E. Johnston, Commanding, etc. General: Your despatch of the 5th instant stating that you considered your assignment to the immediate command in Mississippi as giving you a new position and as limiting your authority, being a repetition of a statement which you were informed was a grave error, and being persisted in after your failure to point out, when requested, the letter or despatch justifying you in such a conclusion, rendered it necessary, as you were informed in my despatch of the 8th instant, that I should make a more extended reply than could be given in a telegram. That there may be no possible room for further mistake in this matter, I am compelled to recapitulate the substance of all orders and instructions given to you, so far as they bear on this question. On November 24th last you were assigned, by Special Order No. 275, to a defined
Jefferson Davis (search for this): chapter 42
Chapter 42: President Davis's letter to General Johnston after the fall of Vicksburg. Richmond, July 15, 1863. General J. E. Johnston, Commanding, etc. General: Your despatch of the 5th instant stating that you considered your assignment to the immediate command in Mississippi as giving you a new position and as limiting your authority, being a repetition of a statement which you were informed was a grave error, and being persisted in after your failure to point out, when requested,ht, or, by refraining from an answer, to seem to admit the justice of some of the statements. Respectfully, etc., (Signed) Jefferson Davis. Telegrams sent by General Johnston from Jackson, Miss., to Richmond, Va. May 28, 1863. To President Davis: It is reported that the last infantry coming leave Montgomery to-night. When they arrive I shall have about twenty-three thousand. Pemberton can be saved only by beating Grant. Unless you can promise more troops we must try with tha
James Grant (search for this): chapter 42
ou in which you stated that, on the arrival of certain reinforcements, then on the way, you would have about 23,000; that Penberton could be saved only by beating Grant; and you added, unless you can promise more troops we must try with that number. The odds against us will be very great. Can you add seven thousand? My reply ted that the last infantry coming leave Montgomery to-night. When they arrive I shall have about twenty-three thousand. Pemberton can be saved only by beating Grant. Unless you can promise more troops we must try with that number. The odds against us will be very great. Can you add 7,000? I asked for another Major-Generarom that Department, after having been informed by the Executive that no more could be spared. To take from Bragg a force which would make this army fit to oppose Grant would involve yielding Tennessee. It is for the Government to decide between this State and Tennessee. June 16, 1863. to the President: Your despatch of 15
Cadmus Wilcox (search for this): chapter 42
tc., (Signed) Jefferson Davis. Telegrams sent by General Johnston from Jackson, Miss., to Richmond, Va. May 28, 1863. To President Davis: It is reported that the last infantry coming leave Montgomery to-night. When they arrive I shall have about twenty-three thousand. Pemberton can be saved only by beating Grant. Unless you can promise more troops we must try with that number. The odds against us will be very great. Can you add 7,000? I asked for another Major-General, Wilcox, or whoever you may prefer. We want good General Officers quickly. I have to organize an army and collect ammunition, provisions, and transportation. June 10, 1863. To Secretary of War : Your despatch of June 8th in cipher received. You do not give orders in regard to the recently appointed General Officers. Please do it. I have not at my (disposal? Word not legible in cipher despatch.) half the number of troops necessary. It is for the Government to determine what Department
Braxton Bragg (search for this): chapter 42
ted want of harmony and confidence between General Bragg and his officers and troops. This letter several points. You know best concerning General Bragg's army, but I fear to withdraw more. We aeinforcements, that you could not know how General Bragg's wants compared with yours, and that the his was in deference to your own opinion, that Bragg could not be safely weakened, nay, that he oug. The troops subsequently sent to you from Bragg were forwarded by him under the following despn the spot, and, therefore, simply left to General Bragg the power to aid you, if he could, and zifilar despatch from the Secretary of War to General Bragg, informing him of your earnest appeal for reinforcements required. I cannot know General Bragg's wants, compared with mine. The Governmeve that no more could be spared. To take from Bragg a force which would make this army fit to opporing three separate bodies of troops from General Bragg's army to thistwo of them without my knowl[8 more...]
June 20th (search for this): chapter 42
. I now proceed to your second statement, in your telegram of June 12th, that you should not have felt authorized to take troops from that Department (Tennessee) after having been informed by the Executive that no more could be spared. To my inquiry for the basis of this statement, you answered on the 16th, by what was in substance a reiteration of it. I again requested, on the 17th, that you should refer by date to any such communication as that alleged by you. You answered on June 20th, apologized for carelessness in your first reply, and referred me to a passage from my telegram to you of May 20th, and to one from the Secretary of War of June 5th, and then informed me that you considered Executive as including the Secretary of War. Your telegram of June I 2th was addressed to the Secretary of War in the second person; it begins Your despatch, and then speaks of the Executive in the third person, and on reading it, it was not supposed that the word Executive referr
June 15th (search for this): chapter 42
ould not have felt authorized to draw troops from that Department (Tennessee) after being informed by the Executive that no more could be spared, I was unable to account for your language, being entirely confident that I had never given you any such information. I shall now proceed to separate your two statements, and begin with that which relates to your not considering yourself commanding in Tennessee, since assignment here, i.e., in Mississippi. When you received my telegram of June 15th, informing you that the order to go to Mississippi did not diminish your authority in Tennessee, both being in the country placed under your command in original assignment, accompanied by an inquiry about the information said to have been derived from me, restricting your authority to transfer troops, your answer on June 16th was, I meant to tell the Secretary of War, that I considered the order directing me to command here as limiting my authority to this Department, especially when that
June 16th (search for this): chapter 42
authority in Tennessee, both being in the country placed under your command in original assignment, accompanied by an inquiry about the information said to have been derived from me, restricting your authority to transfer troops, your answer on June 16th was, I meant to tell the Secretary of War, that I considered the order directing me to command here as limiting my authority to this Department, especially when that order was accompanied by War Department orders transferring troops from Tennear more exposed to danger than Bragg, and was urging forward reinforcements to that point, both from Carolina and Virginia, before you were directed to assume command in person in Mississippi. I find nothing then either in your despatch of June 16th, nor in any subsequent communication from you, giving a justification for your saying, that you had not considered yourself commanding in Tennessee, since assignment here (i.e., in Mississippi). Your despatch of the 5th instant is again a subs
27th (search for this): chapter 42
egram of May 28th. That telegram was in answer to one from you in which you stated that, on the arrival of certain reinforcements, then on the way, you would have about 23,000; that Penberton could be saved only by beating Grant; and you added, unless you can promise more troops we must try with that number. The odds against us will be very great. Can you add seven thousand? My reply was The reinforcements sent to you exceed by, say seven thousand, the estimate of your despatch of 27th instant. We have withheld nothing which it was practicable to give you. We cannot hope for numerical quantity, and time will probably increase the disparity. It is on this language that you rely to support a statement that I informed you no more troops could be spared from Tennessee, and as restricting your right to draw troops from that Department. It bears no such construction. The reinforcements sent to you, with an exception presently to be noticed, were from points outside of your Depa
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