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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
and two thousand cavalry. was ordered to march next morning toward the Big Black River. In the afternoon of July 1st, Loring's, French's, and Walker's divisions bivouacked near Birdsong's Ferry, on that river, and Breckenridge's, with the floating-bridge, near Edwards's Depot. The cavalry, under General W. H. Jackson, was placed in observation along the river. This expedition was not undertaken in the wild spirit that dictated the dispatches from the War Department, of the 16th and 21st of June. I did not indulge in the sentiment that it was better for me to waste the lives and blood of brave soldiers, than, through prudence even, to spare them; and therefore intended to make such close and careful examination of the enemy's lines as might enable me to estimate the probability of our being able to break them; and, should the chances of success seem to justify it, attack in the hope of breaking them, and rescuing the army invested in Vicksburg. There was no hope of saving the
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
equate, by warning See page 195, message by Captain Saunders. me that forty thousand was the smallest number of troops with which I should attempt to force the Federal line of circumvallation. Lieutenant-General Pemberton also maintained that I produced the disasters to our cause in his department-not, however, by failing to attack the besieging army in its intrenchments, according to the expressed desire In the telegrams of the Secretary of War, one dated the 16th, and two the 21st of June. of the Administration, but by giving him orders that caused the disastrous battle of Baker's Creek, on the 16th of May, and thus led to the siege and capture of Vicksburg. That idea is the foundation of Lieutenant-General Pemberton's defense, in his Report of the Operations previous to and during the Siege of Vicksburg. This report, dated August 2d, was transmitted to the War Department on the 25th, from Gainesville, Alabama, where the writer then was. This fact came to my knowledge on