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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: (search)
States would have rung with fierce denunciation of the savage spirit of its author, and public opinion would outlaw his memory. The remnant of the army of Tennessee retired from Corinth to Tupelo, Miss., on the 23d of January, 1865. General Hood was relieved and Lieut.-Gen. Richard Taylor assigned to command. After a few days of needed rest and preparation, the troops of Lee's, Stewart's and Cheatham's corps, in the order named, were moved by rail to South Carolina. During the month (January) the Congress adopted this resolution: That if the President will appoint Gen. J. E. Johnston to the command of the army of Tennessee it will, in the opinion of the Congress of the Confederate States, be hailed with joy by the army and will receive the approval of the country. President Davis did not at once make the appointment himself, but a month later, on the 22d of February, Gen. R. E. Lee, having been made general-in-chief, called General Johnston to the command of the army of Tennes
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
ng's command, marching back across the mountains and through the Shenandoah valley, joined Stonewall Jackson at Winchester, they had additional lessons in the duties of a soldier. The winter campaign of Jackson to Bath, Han. cock and Romney, in January, involved as much genuine hardship as any of the whole war, and but for the interference of the war department, Jackson always claimed, would have been productive of permanent good to the Confederacy. The Seventh regiment was next ordered to tutant-general, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel on the staff of Major-General Cheatham, he participated in the Kentucky campaign, and the battles of Munfordville and Perryville. He was promoted to brigadier-general, December 13, 1862, and in January was given command of Hanson's, formerly Breckinridge's Kentucky brigade, which he relinquished to take command of Donelson's Tennessee brigade, which he led at the battles of Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. He was afterward assigned to the di