Braxton Bragg, General of the Confederacy |
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Adjutant-General Adjutant-General Cooper advance Alabama arms army Army of Tennessee arrived artillery attack batteries battle Beauregard Bragg replied BRAXTON BRAGG Breckinridge Brig.-Gen brigade Brigadier-General Bryantsville Buckner Buell Captain captured Carolina cavalry Chattanooga Chickamauga Colonel command Confederate confidence Corinth corps crossed Cumberland Gap December defense delay Department dispatch division duty East Tennessee enemy enemy's eral Federal field fighting fire flank force Forrest Fort Fisher Fort McRee Fort Pickens front garrison Georgia guns Hardee Hardee's headquarters heavy hope immediately infantry instructions January Johnston Kentucky letter Lieutenant-General Longstreet Maj.-Gen Major-General March ment miles military Mississippi Mobile morning move movement Murfreesborough Nashville night North o'clock officers operations organization Pensacola Pickens Polk Polk's position President Davis prisoners railroad reached rear received reenforcements regiment retreat Richmond river road Rosecrans sent September Sherman Slemmer Smith soldiers soon staff supplies telegraphed troops Tullahoma Wheeler wounded
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Page 450 - I am directed by the Secretary of War to inform you, that as you have failed to arrest the advance of the enemy to the vicinity of Atlanta, and express no confidence that you can defeat or repel him...
Page 530 - The number of arms and munitions of war to be reported to the Chief of Ordnance at Washington City, subject to the future action of the Congress of the United States...
Page 530 - ... 7. In general terms — the war to cease; a general amnesty, so far as the Executive of the United States can command...
Page 157 - There seems to be no good reason why the same rule should not apply to a manuscript which, though not original and protectible, may become the subject of a protecting contract. "A limited publication of literary property is really not a publication, in the ordinary sense of the word, but a privileged disclosure. It is the communication of knowledge of the contents of...
Page 530 - Legislatures taking the oaths prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, and, where conflicting State governments have resulted from the war, the legitimacy of all shall be submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Page 401 - I fear we both erred in the conclusion for me to retain command here after the clamor raised against me.
Page 306 - caution and patience. " I have done so very often; but after five or six months of inactivity, with your force all the time diminishing, and no hope of any immediate increase, you must not be surprised that their patience is pretty well exhausted.
Page 108 - I did not feel disposed to positively order Buell, or any part of his command, to pursue. Although the senior in rank at the time I had been so only a few weeks. Buell was, and had been for some time past, a department commander, while I commanded only a district.
Page 530 - The Confederate armies, now in existence, to be disbanded and conducted to their several State capitals, there to deposit their arms and public property in the State arsenal; and each officer and man to execute and file an agreement to cease from acts of war, and to abide the action of the State and Federal authority.
Page 108 - After the rain of the night before and the frequent and heavy rains for some days previous, the roads were almost impassable. The enemy carrying his artillery and supply trains over them in his retreat, made them still worse for troops following. I wanted to pursue, but had not the heart to order the men who had fought desperately for two days, lying in the mud and rain whenever not fighting, and I did not feel disposed to positively order Buell, or any part of his command, to pursue.