Joseph E. Johnston: An Address Delivered Before the Association of Ex-Confederate Soldiers and Sailors of Washington, D.C.R. O. Polkinhorn, 1891 - 61 pages |
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arms Army of Tennessee ASSOCIATION OF EX-CONFEDERATE battle Bentonville beseech Thee blessing blow BOOK DUE Bragg campaign Captain Carolina Cassville Chancellorsville command Confederacy Confederate Dabney Maury dark reaper death defeat defense disaster duty enemy EPPA HUNTON EX-CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS fate federacy fell field fight fought G. W. Smith general's Goldsboro grace Grant Hardee Hasten the day HELD IN MT hero honor Hood intrenchments Jackson JOHNSTON JOSEPH E junction lan's latter LEIGH ROBINSON Lord Manassas March McClel McClellan MEMORIAL SERVICE HELD miles Missionary Ridge moved movement noble once opposed Peach Tree Creek Pemberton Port Hudson position R. O. POLKINHORN received Resaca Richmond river road Rocky Face route SAILORS OF WASHINGTON Schofield Seven Pines Sherman Smithfield SOLDIERS AND SAILORS STON was ordered Stonewall Jackson strength thanks to Thee Thou hast tion troops Union Union Army unite valor VERNON M. E. CHURCH verses Vicksburg ceased victory virtues West wing wounds
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Page 50 - Flow thro' our deeds and make them pure, That we may lift from out of dust A voice as unto him that hears, A cry above the conquer'd years To one that with us works, and trust, With faith that comes of self-control, The truths that never can be proved Until we close with...
Page 3 - I believed, like most others, that the decision of the country would be permanent, and that apart from any right of secession, the revolution begun was justified by the maxims so often repeated by Americans — that free government is founded in the consent of the governed, and that every community strong enough to establish and maintain its independence has a right to assert it.
Page 50 - And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colors he had fought so long.
Page 16 - Polk and Hardee, and Governor Harris, on the subject of your letter. ... I respectfully suggest that, should it then appear to you necessary to remove General Bragg, no one in this army, or engaged in this investigation, ought to be his successor.
Page 44 - March 1865. on the road from Averysboro, had not reached that stream, and was more than a day's march from the point in its route opposite to the hamlet of Bentonville, where the two roads, according to the map of North Carolina, were twelve miles apart. Upon this, Johnston prepared to attack the left column of Sherman's army, before the other...
Page 37 - There could have been no purer ransom for his general's sentence than one of those stout arms. It was said by General Carter Stevenson that he had never seen any troops in such fine discipline and condition as Johnston's army on the day he was removed from command. Constancy, stanchness, erectness, governed by a true discernment, are the attributes that conquer men and events. All these attributes were with Johnston's army the day he was removed. Ill they recked who changed that steadfast camp for...
Page 12 - I2th of November, and on the 24th, received orders of that date, assigning him to the command of the Department of the West; a geographical department, including the States of Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and parts of Louisiana, Georgia and North Carolina. Had the reality of this command been delivered to Johnston, it would have been the very arena for the employment of his large gifts. The vision which is competent to survey and manage the whole landscape of war, and direct the grand movements...