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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter3 (search)
General D. H. Hill had succeeded Brigadier-General Evans in the command of the troops near Leesburg, the latter being transferred to South Carolina. Early in December, Major Blair, the chief commissary of the army, was compelled by ill health to leave that position. He was succeeded in it by Major R. G. Cole, who assumed its in this affair. Three brigades under Brigadier-General Loring, transferred from Western Virginia to the Valley district, reported to Major-General Jackson in December: the first, commanded by Colonel Taliaferro, early in the month; the two others, Brigadier-General S. R. Anderson's and Colonel Gilham's, near its close. In entured beyond the protection of infantry, and the ground between the two armies had been less free to it than to that of the Confederate army. Until the end of December, military operations were practicable; but, from that time to the beginning of spring, the condition of the country south of the Potomac and east of the Blue Ri
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 6 (search)
of military stores also, and paroling twelve hundred prisoners, he was pressed back into Middle Tennessee l)y weight of numbers. At the same time, a body of Federal cavalry under Brigadier-General Carter, supposed to be fifteen hundred, burned the Holston and Watauga railroad bridges near Bristol. As soon as Major-General Rosecrans was informed of the large detachment from the Confederate army of Tennessee to that of Mississippi, he prepared to take advantage of it, and on the 26th1 of December marched from Nashville toward Murfreesboroa. On his approach this movement was promptly reported to General Bragg by Brigadier-General Wheeler, who commanded his cavalry. In consequence of this intelligence the Confederate army was immediately concentrated in front of Murfreesboroa. It numbered about thirty thousand infantry and artillery in five divisions, and five thousand mounted troops. On the 28th General Bragg reported to me by telegraph: The enemy stationary within ten miles;
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
ostensibly to correct a misapprehension of mine in relation to the telegram of May 9th, directing me to assume immediate command of the army in Mississippi, but actually commenting very harshly upon much of my military conduct since the previous December. It was not unexpected, for General Wigfall, of the Confederate States Senate, had told me, in recent letters, that a friend of his had twice seen such a paper in preparation in the office of the Secretary of State. If all the misconduct aled to join Rosecrans. He had no enemy before him; Vicksburg was no longer threatened. Bragg, on the other hand, could not fully cover the country which fed his troops. I therefore directed a force equal to that sent from Bragg to Pemberton in December last under your instructions, to be sent from Mississippi to Tennessee; intending, should Lieutenant-General Pemberton's surmise prove correct, to continue to draw troops from his army. But in a few days Lieutenant-General Pemberton reported th
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 14 (search)
ackson. 6. After this the President's confidence in Johnston's ability as a general was so far destroyed, that he determined not to intrust him again with the command of an important army. He remained in command at Morton and Meridian until December, and in his department nothing of importance occurred. After the battle of Missionary Ridge, public clamor and the army demanded a change in the command of the Army of Tennessee. General Bragg's repeated applications to be relieved were finallyailable; and was then, as he had been previously, in a position inadequate to his rank. 5. When the President assigned me to the command of Generals Bragg, Pemberton, and Kirby Smith, he fixed my headquarters in Tennessee. Before the end of December I transferred them to Mississippi. On the 23d of January he ordered me to Tennessee on special service. When I was returning to Mississippi after having performed it, he ordered See page 163. me to return to Tullahoma and take personal comman
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Letters. (search)
hic) from you, by way of Chattanooga, to which I have briefly replied by telegraph. The second asks if I have any resources under my control to meet the advance from Corinth, reported by Lieutenant-General Pemberton; if troops can be spared from Mobile or Mississippi, or from Middle Tennessee, for the purpose — if Van Dorn's cavalry, at least, might not return. The infantry for defense on the land-side of Mobile, amounts to but twenty-five hundred. I reported to the President in December that nearly twenty thousand additional troops were required in Mississippi. Since then, Grant's army has been heavily reenforced. Allow me to remind you, also, of what I have said of the length of time necessary for the transfer of troops, in any considerable number, from Mississippi to Tennessee. Those two departments are more distant from each other in time than Eastern Virginia and Middle Tennessee. In relation to detaching from General Bragg's army, permit me to remind you that I
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Memorandum for Colonel Browne, Aide-de-camp. (search)
The effective total of the army (infantry and artillery), thirty-six thousand one hundred and eleven. At the end of December it was thirty-six thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, which, during the month, was reduced by the transfer of Quarleses. It is necessary to keep about two-thirds of them below Rome, near the Coosa, on account of forage. At the end of Decemberthe effective total was36,826 total present and absent77,653 At the end of Januarythe effective total was36,111 total present and absent69,514 (Cavalry not included.) At the end of December, the effective total of cavalry was5,613 At the end of December, the total present and absent13,290 At the end of January, the effective total of cavalry was The nuDecember, the total present and absent13,290 At the end of January, the effective total of cavalry was The number of men able to serve-two-thirds of their horses, however, were unfit for service, so that the term effective, applied to them as cavalry, is incorrect.5,442 At the end of January, the total present and absent12,152 Respectfully submitted: