Chapter 31:
- Troops withdrawn from General Beauregard and sent to North Carolina and to General Johnston. -- the Secretary of War orders 5000 more to Vicksburg. -- General Beauregard's letter to Mr. Seddon. -- plan of the campaign to redeem Tennessee and Kentucky submitted to General Johnston, after the battle of Chancellorsville, and after Richmond's safety is assured. -- enemy makes a demonstration in third military district. -- General Gillmore assumes command of Federal forces. -- General Beauregard instructed by the War Department to repair to Mobile with part of his troops. -- his letter to General Cooper. -- Colonel Simonton recommends a battery at Grimball's. -- General Beauregard's reasons for objecting to it. -- call for additional heavy guns. -- remonstrance to General Gillmore as to depredations of his troops. -- General Beauregard's letter to the mayor of Charleston. -- the enemy's movements on Folly Island. -- preparations for the attack. -- orders to that effect. -- the assault takes place on the 10th of July: is renewed on the 11th and 18th. -- repulse of the enemy. -- General Beauregard strengthens his inner circle of fortifications. -- his letter to Governor Bonham. -- instructions to General Ripley and other officers. -- letter to Captain Tucker. -- additional orders issued. -- Mr. Seddon's request for information concerning the enemy's descent on Morris Island. -- General Beauregard's reply.
No sooner had the enemy been foiled in his naval attack on Fort Sumter (April 7th) than the depletion of General Beauregard's active forces was begun. Cooke's and Clingman's commands were returned to North Carolina; and, early in May, two brigades of infantry, numbering more than 5000 men, with two batteries of light artillery, were sent, by order of the War Department, to reinforce General Joseph E. Johnston at Jackson, Mississippi. Again, on the 10th of May, a telegram was received from the Secretary of War, directing that 5000 more men should be hurried to the assistance of General Pemberton, at Vicksburg. This injudicious measure, the execution of which would have left General Beauregard with hardly any troops in his Department, stung him to an earnest remonstrance, as is shown by the following letter: