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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter3 (search)
they covered the heights on the Virginia side of the Potomac from a point above Georgetown to the hill south of Alexandria. The accessions to the army since July 21st had been the excellent brigade of Georgians formed and brought to Virginia by General Toombs, two regiments from Mississippi, and one each from North Carolina, Srade; second, A. S. Johnston, to rank from May 28th; third, R. E. Lee, from June 14th; fourth, J. E. Johnston, from July 4th; and, fifth, G. T. Beauregard, from July 21st, the date of the appointment previously conferred upon him. See the President's telegrams on p. 21. This action was altogether illegal, and contrary to all the could not be materially increased; for the Confederacy had no arms but those in the hands of the volunteers, and twenty-five hundred of those captured on the 21st of July, which were in the ordnance-store of the army, at Fairfax Court-House. Under these circumstances, the three military officers proposed, as the course offer
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Letters. (search)
he road; and Major Whiting went to the junction to report, and sent me from there further instructions for the night. I made a report after the battle, but did not write the details of Major Whiting's connection with the matter. General McGowan, of Abbeville, and Judge Aldrich, of Barnwell, then on my staff, remember this matter substantially as stated; and probably others of my staff. Yours very truly, M. L. Bonham. General J. E. Johnston. General McDowell's orders for the 21st of July were as follows: Headquarters Department Army of Eastern Virginia, Centreville, July 20, 1861. The enemy has planted a battery on the Warrenton turnpike to defend the passage of Bull Run; has seized the Stone Bridge and made a heavy abattis on the right bank, to oppose our advance in that direction. The ford above the bridge is also guarded, whether with artillery or not is not positively known, but every indication favors the belief that he proposes to defend the passage of the str