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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter3 (search)
t sixty thousand of its martial inhabitants into the Southern armies. Such an accession to the Southern Confederacy might, and probably would, have made the northern and eastern borders of that State the seat of war, instead of Mississippi and Tennessee. Among the measures to hold Tennessee and gain Kentucky were intrenched camps, made at Columbus, Island No.10, Forts Henry and Donelson, and Bowling Green; each of which required an army to hold it; and, consequently, a respectable army diTennessee and gain Kentucky were intrenched camps, made at Columbus, Island No.10, Forts Henry and Donelson, and Bowling Green; each of which required an army to hold it; and, consequently, a respectable army divided among them, gave each one a force utterly inadequate to its defense. Regular forts, each requiring a garrison of one or two thousand men, and constructed with much less labor than the intrenched camps, would have held the ground much better, and made it practicable to form an active army at the same time, capable of facing those of Buell and Grant, one after the other. As it was, the Confederates were alike weak at every point, and, when the Federal armies advanced, they were captured,
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 4 (search)
will be favorable, and that we may thus together take at least one step to diminish the sufferings produced by the war, I am, etc. As this proposition was not entertained nor the letter noticed, the matter is introduced here only to show how early in the war the Confederate Government attempted to lessen the sufferings of prisoners of war by shortening their terms of confinement, and how little of that spirit was exhibited by the Federal Administration. When the Department of East Tennessee was constituted, Major-General E. Kirby Smith was selected to command it. Many's, Bate's, and Vaughn's Tennessee regiments were transferred with him to that department. Major-General R. S. Ewell, just promoted, succeeded to the command of General E. K. Smith's division. Soon after the middle of this month, I was summoned to Richmond by the President, who wished to confer with me on a subject in which secrecy was so important that he could not venture, he said, to commit it to paper,
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 5 (search)
vision, upon which the weight of the fighting on the right fell. The officers of those troops, who followed the enemy over all the ground on which they fought, and saw the dead and wounded of both parties on the field, were confident that the Federal loss was more than three times as great as ours. It was published in Northern papers as from ten to twelve thousand. General Smith reported a loss of twelve hundred and thirty-three in his division, including Brigadier-General Hatton, of Tennessee, killed; and General Sumner's was twelve hundred and twenty-three, according to General McClellan's report. Three hundred and fifty prisoners, See General D. H. Hill's report. ten pieces of artillery, six thousand seven hundred muskets and rifles in excellent condition, a garrison-flag and four regimental colors, medical, commissary, quartermaster's and ordnance stores, tents, and sutlers' property, were captured and secured. Tie troops in position to renew the battle on Sunday w
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 6 (search)
in General Pemberton sooner than those in Middle Tennessee; and requested General Bragg, by telegraps division without artillery or wagons, from Tennessee to Mississippi, fully sustained this opiniono enable him to hold the southern part of Middle Tennessee, which was still in his possession. Aenabled General Bragg to feed his army in Middle Tennessee. Without such aid he could not have doneume yourself direct charge of the army in Middle Tennessee. In obedience to these instructions I reight be to reenforce General Rosecrans in Middle Tennessee. In the reply to this dispatch, he was i and was then ready to send four thousand to Tennessee. This dispatch was received on the 13th, anen but two brigades from his army to that of Tennessee. His dispatches, of the 17th, gave intelligneral Buford, on the way from Mississippi to Tennessee, were ordered to return. The only activif neglecting Mississippi, to give my time to Tennessee. at any time since the 22d of January. On t[13 more...]
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
th, something more being understood, the answer was continued: To take from Bragg a force that would make this army fit to oppose Grant's, would involve yielding Tennessee. It is for the Government to decide between this State and Tennessee. A duplicate of this dispatch of the 8th was deciphered and answered on the 15th: I cannTennessee. A duplicate of this dispatch of the 8th was deciphered and answered on the 15th: I cannot advise as to the points from which troops can best be taken, having no means of knowing. Nor is it for me to judge which it is best to hold, Mississippi or Tennessee--that is for the Government to determine. Without some great blunder of the enemy, we cannot hold both. The odds against me are much greater than those you expreTennessee--that is for the Government to determine. Without some great blunder of the enemy, we cannot hold both. The odds against me are much greater than those you express (two to one). I consider saving Vicksburg hopeless. Mr. Seddon replied on the 16th: Your telegram grieves and alarms me. Vicksburg must not be lost without a desperate struggle. The interest and honor of the Confederacy forbid it. I rely on you still to avert the loss. If better resources do not offer, you must attack. It
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
may possibly involve the surrender of all Middle Tennessee to the enemy. The failure to reenforce t statement that troops were transferred from Tennessee to Mississippi by order of the War Departmenpi, and whom you were requested to direct to Tennessee, the purpose being to hasten reenforcements uld not direct General Bragg's operations in Tennessee, and because I felt that the question of ordde, involving at least the temporary loss of Tennessee and Mississippi, ought to be decided by the oppose that of Grant would involve yielding Tennessee. It is for the Government to decide betweent leader rendered very important services in Tennessee. They had several engagements with the enemecutive wished no more troops withdrawn from Tennessee. V. I did not draw from that telegram thdge which it is best to hold, Mississippi or Tennessee; that is for the Government to determine. Wad communication of the Federal army through Tennessee, and suggested to General Bragg, in that con[37 more...]
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 9 (search)
t is probable that they may mean to strengthen themselves in the occupation of the portions of Tennessee they have overrun. It is not desirable they should be allowed to do so with impunity, and, asreinforcements. To assume the offensive from this point, we must move either into Middle or East Tennessee. To the first, the obstacles are Chattanooga, now a fortress, the Tennessee River, the ruggman had added twenty-five thousand men to the Federal army, and the march of Longstreet into East Tennessee had reduced ours by twelve thousand. The latter, in his letter to you of the 17th ultimo, was obeyed as promptly as our means of transportation permitted. The Federal commanders in Tennessee seem to have anticipated such a detachment, and to have exaggerated its strength; for, on the e spared from Chattanooga, to cooperate with the Army of the Ohio in driving Longstreet from East Tennessee, countermanded that order, and directed a movement to the immediate front instead, to gain p
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 10 (search)
o reference had been made to the design of recovering Middle Tennessee, I reminded him of it on the 27th, through General Br throw a heavy column of cavalry, as a diversion, into West Tennessee; and thence, if practicable, into Middle Tennessee, toMiddle Tennessee, to operate on the enemy's lines of communication and distract his attention. If by a rapid movement, after crossing the mo to say necessity, of reclaiming the provision country of Tennessee and Kentucky; and, from my knowledge of the country and p to be prepared to beat him here; he has not come back to Tennessee to stand on the defensive; his advance, should we be readmake it easy. There is another reason: Grant's return to Tennessee indicates that he will retain that command, for the presean only be found near Chattanooga. The march into Middle Tennessee, via Kingston, would require all the stores we shouldville en route. Would it not be easier to march into Middle Tennessee through North Alabama I believe fully, however, that
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 11 (search)
the lead, In General Hood's second report of his operations in Georgia and Tennessee, which was made in Richmond, he contradicts this statement, which was publish removal, I assert that Sherman's army is much stronger compared with that of Tennessee, than Grant's compared with that of Northern Virginia. Yet the enemy has beeth of May. They were generally garrisons and bridge-guards from Kentucky and Tennessee, relieved by hundred days men, to join the army in the field. And the Seventanta is not only safe, but the destruction of the army under Sherman opens up Tennessee and Kentucky to us. Your information as to the relative strength of the two a. The army was in a fine condition also when General Bragg retreated from Middle Tennessee, in 1863, and up to the disaster on Missionary Ridge in November of that y the 20th and 22d, and everywhere under General Hood, especially at Franklin, Tennessee? Had they then been demoralized? I could say much more on this subject, but
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 12 (search)
ar Smithfield, N. C. That spirited soldier, although still suffering from a wound received in Tennessee, had taken the field in this extremity. At least two-thirds of the arms of these troops had been lost in Tennessee. Lieutenant-General Stewart and Brigadier-General Polk, oral statement. They had, therefore, depended on the workshops of Alabama and Georgia for muskets, and had received but e confidence of our troops, who had either lost it in the defeat at Wilmington, or in those of Tennessee. All were greatly elated by the event. There was now no object in remaining in presence o Tennessee River, near Decatur; and directing Major-General Stoneman's division to return to East Tennessee. General Sherman was accompanied on this occasion by several among the most distinguishefield for orders. 2. The cavalry command of Major-General George Stoneman will return to East Tennessee, and that of Brevet Major-General J. H. Wilson will be conducted back to the Tennessee River
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