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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 4 (search)
position to reinlist is not very general. I will do what I can to stimulate it into activity. Care must be taken, however, not to reduce the army to such an extent as to make its very feebleness the inducement to the enemy's attack. The Secretary took no notice of this letter, and in no degree abated his irregular course remonstrated against; and gave furloughs under the bounty and furlough law as lavishly as if he had not especially delegated its execution to me. About the end of January the Confederate Government desired the adoption of measures for the exchange of all prisoners taken by the armies of the belligerents, and the Secretary of War instructed me to propose to General McClellan the proper arrangements for that object. These instructions were obeyed on the 1st of February, by transmitting the following letter of that date to General McClellan, by the hands of Lieutenant-Colonel Julian Harrison, of the Virginia cavalry, who was selected to bear it on account
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 6 (search)
troops were so poorly equipped, and the difficulty of supplying deficiencies so great, that the division was not ready for actual service until February, nor able to cross the Tennessee until the middle of the month. It was directed to Columbia, and, by occupying that neighborhood, enabled General Bragg to feed his army in Middle Tennessee. Without such aid he could not have done this, and would have been compelled to abandon the country north of the Tennessee River. In the middle of January General Wheeler made an expedition with the principal part of the cavalry of the Army of Tennessee, to interrupt the Federal communications. After burning the railroad-bridge over Mill Creek, nine miles from Nashville, he went on to the Cumberland and captured there four loaded transports, three of which, with their cargoes, were destroyed, and the fourth bonded to carry home four hundred paroled prisoners. A gunboat which pursued the party was also captured with its armament. General Wh
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
te the examination of its defenses, which had been twice begun (in January and March), and on each occasion interrupted by orders of the Admispondence shows a constant desire on your part, beginning early in January, that I should change the order placing Tennessee and Mississippi gave, sending cavalry from Mississippi to Tennessee, was early in January, when I was at Jackson, not Tullahoma. I can find but one telegra. The main body of the cavalry of Mississippi was near Grenada in January, unorganized and unemployed, and from the condition of the countryeferred to. The first order was that given to the cavalry early in January; it was explained in paragraph IV. The second was given about theivision of cavalry, the other a division of infantry: the first in January, when McClernand and Sherman had abandoned the siege of Vicksburg,the constant desire shown in my correspondence, beginning early in January, that you should change the order placing Tennessee and Mississipp
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 9 (search)
active campaign of six months, half of it in the rugged region between Chattanooga and Dalton, had so much reduced the condition of the horses of the cavalry and artillery, as well as of the mules of the wagon-trains, that most of them were unfit for active service. The rest they had been allowed at Dalton had not improved their condition materially; for, from want of good fuel, the railroad-trains had not been able to bring up full supplies of forage. This continued until near the end of January, when the management of the railroad had been greatly improved by the intervention of Governor Brown, and a better system introduced in the manner of forwarding military supplies. This scarcity of food made it necessary to send almost half of the artillery-horses and all the mules not required for camp-service to the valley of the Etowah, where long forage could be found, and the sources of supply of grain were nearer. In that connection, I find, in a letter to the President dated Jan
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Memorandum for Colonel Browne, Aide-de-camp. (search)
dred). The present brigades of the army, therefore, were increased by nineteen hundred and eighty-five effectives during January. We have a few unarmed men in each brigade. About half are without bayonets. Many barefooted --the number of the lattaccount of forage. At the end of Decemberthe effective total was36,826 total present and absent77,653 At the end of Januarythe effective total was36,111 total present and absent69,514 (Cavalry not included.) At the end of December, the effective total of cavalry was5,613 At the end of December, the total present and absent13,290 At the end of January, the effective total of cavalry was The number of men able to serve-two-thirds of their horses, however, were unfit for service, so that the term effective, applied to them as cavalry, is incorrect.5,442 At the end of January, the total present and absent12,152 Respectfully submitted: (Signed) J. E. Johnston, General. Telegrams. Near Marietta, June 12, 18