...paper stung him like a slap in the face: "as you have failed to arrest the advance of the enemy to the vicinity of Atlanta, far in the interior of Georgia,...you can defeat or repel him, you are hereby relieved of command of the Army and Department of Tennessee, which you will immediately turn over to General...

...cause."83 On July 17, Cooper wired Johnston: "as you have failed to arrest the advance of the enemy . . . and express no confidence that you can defeat or repel...are hereby relieved from the command of the Army." He was to turn it over to Hood who had "temporary rank of general under the late law." Johnston sneered...

...the Secretary of War to inform you that as you have failed to arrest the advance of the enemy to the vicinity of Atlanta, far in the interior of Georgia,...Tennessee, which you will immediately turn over to General Hood.15" Sent from Richmond probably on the afternoon of the 17th — assuming Davis, Seddon, and Cooper...

...the Secretary of War to inform you that as you have failed to arrest the advance of the enemy to the vicinity of Atlanta, far in the interior of Georgia,...you are hereby relieved from the command of the Army of the Department of Tennessee, which you will immediately turn over to General Hood. And so the army's...

...enunciated the government's position: "as you have failed to arrest the advance of the enemy to the vicinity of Atlanta, far in the interior of Georgia,...confidence that you can defeat or repel him, you are hereby relieved."72 For six months, as the Confederacy languished, General Johnston had no military role....

...sent the following telegram to Johnston: "As you have failed to arrest the advance of the enemy to the vicinity of Atlanta, far in the interior of Georgia,...you can defeat or repel him, you are hereby relieved of the command." In Johnston's place the Confederate President put General John B. Hood, a reckless...