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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 4 (search)
t to the Rappahannock. orders to General Jackson. battle of Kernstown. army moved to the Rapidan. appointment of General Randolph Secretary of War. movements of General McClellan. another conference with the President. its result. In the beEwell's division and Stuart's brigade remained on the Rappahannock, in observation. Before the end of the month, General Randolph was appointed Secretary of War, which enabled the military officers to reestablish the discipline of the army; and te question was so important that he would hear it fully discussed before making his decision, and desired me to meet General Randolph (Secretary of War) and General Lee, in his office, at an appointed time, for the purpose; at my suggestion, he authoast-and assail the Federal army when, following Magruder, it came within reach. In the discussion that followed, General Randolph, who had been a naval officer, objected to the plan proposed, because it included at least the temporary abandonment
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 6 (search)
Without actual assignment, I was told, on reporting, that the Government intended to place the Departments of Tennessee and Mississippi under my direction. This intimation justified me, I thought, in suggesting to the Secretary of War, General Randolph, that, as the Federal troops invading the Valley of the Mississippi were united under one commander, our armies for its defense should also be united, east of the Mississippi. By this junction, we should bring above seventy thousand men agaoss the Mississippi with his forces, and unite them with those of Lieutenant-General Pemberton. He then read me a note from the President, directing him to countermand his instructions to Lieutenant-General Holmes. A day or two after this, General Randolph retired from the War Department, to the great injury of the Confederacy. On the 24th, I received orders of that date, assigning me to the command of the departments of General Bragg, Lieutenant-General E. Kirby Smith, and Lieutenant-Gene
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 14 (search)
sketching topography, and, this being our first essay in the military line, we were ridiculously minute, and consequently very slow. I left Manassas March 3d, on my reconnaissance to the Rappahannock; I taking the upper route, and sending Lieutenant Randolph, who had just reported, by the lower. I reported to you on the 6th, at Centreville; received orders on the 7th to prepare Rappahannock Bridge for the passage of trains. The bridge was completed Tuesday morning (11th), just as the trains March 21, 186 : I cannot remember, at this late day, the particular reasons that were given for and against the move of the army to Yorktown in 1862, in our council held in Richmond while the move was going on. Mr. Davis, Mr. Benjamin, General Randolph, who had lately succeeded Mr. Benjamin in the War-Office. and General Lee, seemed to favor the move to Yorktown-you to oppose it, and I think, General G. W. Smith. The effort to represent you as favoring the move of the army to Yorktown