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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 14 (search)
went to Mississippi in May only in consequence of a positive order, because I had been deprived by the President of the power to go without one. On arriving at Jackson, I took the promptest See page 176. measure to unite the troops in Jackson with those immediately under General Pemberton. The measure was defeated See page 181. by disobedience of my orders. The troops in Jackson rendered the only service possible, by delaying the approach of the Federal forces long enough to enable Major Minis, chief quartermaster of the department, to save such public property as he had the means of removing. To attempt to strike a blow upon at least two corps, General Grant's report. with two brigades, would have been gross folly. We were not inactive See pages 191-203. during the siege of Vicksburg, nor were my forces adequate to cut through Grant's lines. General Pemberton, as much interested as any one could be in bold measures for the relief of Vicksburg, thought forty thousand