JOHNSTON, JOSEPH E., General, C.S.A. Autograph letter signed ("J.E. Johnston") as General in Command of the Confederate Department of the West, TO GENERAL BRAXTON BRAGG, Chattanooga, 4 March 1863. 2 pages, 4to, lined paper, EIGHTEEN-LINE AUTOGRAPH DOCKET BY BRAGG, two minor fold separations , otherwise in fine condition. JOHNSTON TO BRAGG: "'SCOUTS REPORT 15000 TROOPS AT CORINTH...A FLANK MOVEMENT AGAINST BRAGG'" A long, detailed letter from the ranking rebel commander in the west, the veto of whose strategies by President Davis resulted in the defeat of Bragg and Pemberton at Stone's River and in the loss of Vicksburg. Johnston has received a letter from "the Sec[retary] of War [James A. Seddon] urging the importance of supporting our troops without touching the reserve supplies in Georgia...If he gets provisions it will be valuable...I regret very much that [General] E. K[irby] S[mith] did not go to the trans-Mississippi country sooner. He would have cooperated with us -- & will do so whenever it may be practicable. I sent...to Richmond...a suggestion that the troops which had opposed [General William Ruffin] Cox & Siegel in V[irgnia] should...join you. I have this moment received a telegram from General [John C.] Pemberton [in command at Vicksburg]...saying 'Scouts report 15000 troops at Corinth -- supposed to be a flank movement against Bragg.' It is possible, but while I was at Jackson the scouts in that district were very wild in their reports...I suppose that the country [is] in condition for the movement of large bodies of troops...the present muddy conditions might be expected for five or six weeks. I hope so. In that time the gov[ernmen]t may wake to the necessity of sending reinforcements..."
JOHNSTON, JOSEPH E., General, C.S.A. Autograph letter signed ("J.E. Johnston") as General in Command of the Confederate Department of the West, TO GENERAL BRAXTON BRAGG, Chattanooga, 4 March 1863. 2 pages, 4to, lined paper, EIGHTEEN-LINE AUTOGRAPH DOCKET BY BRAGG, two minor fold separations , otherwise in fine condition. JOHNSTON TO BRAGG: "'SCOUTS REPORT 15000 TROOPS AT CORINTH...A FLANK MOVEMENT AGAINST BRAGG'" A long, detailed letter from the ranking rebel commander in the west, the veto of whose strategies by President Davis resulted in the defeat of Bragg and Pemberton at Stone's River and in the loss of Vicksburg. Johnston has received a letter from "the Sec[retary] of War [James A. Seddon] urging the importance of supporting our troops without touching the reserve supplies in Georgia...If he gets provisions it will be valuable...I regret very much that [General] E. K[irby] S[mith] did not go to the trans-Mississippi country sooner. He would have cooperated with us -- & will do so whenever it may be practicable. I sent...to Richmond...a suggestion that the troops which had opposed [General William Ruffin] Cox & Siegel in V[irgnia] should...join you. I have this moment received a telegram from General [John C.] Pemberton [in command at Vicksburg]...saying 'Scouts report 15000 troops at Corinth -- supposed to be a flank movement against Bragg.' It is possible, but while I was at Jackson the scouts in that district were very wild in their reports...I suppose that the country [is] in condition for the movement of large bodies of troops...the present muddy conditions might be expected for five or six weeks. I hope so. In that time the gov[ernmen]t may wake to the necessity of sending reinforcements..."
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