The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-28

ssvely n ,Iym San Beauregard alone, and that
ian Johnston interfered not In SO much even
ag TO assign position 70 z slnge
IN the second Of March, Cen Beauregard3
-,ooTa intent than ever upon concentrating at
Torinth, writes this letter to Gen Johnston:
"Ol'' JACKSON, Tenn March 2, 1882;
Door gencrnL-I send you herewith In
closed n siip showing the intended move
Tnnnta of the enemy, no doubt against the
froops in Western Tennessee, think you
.Duvht to hurry up your troops TO Corlnth, by
railroad, as soon as practicable; for there or
S5e,e1fo,,tq lptU soon be fought the great tdttte
S1f he controversy. Gen. Bragg ~ Win ny
we are trying to organize everything aS rapid
ly as possible.
G. +. BEAUREdARD.
Not satisfied with the foregoing letter, Cen
Beauregard, on the same day, dispatches the
following: A.,
See Memphis Appeal of yesterday FOR move
Tnents Of enemy's troops by steamboats,, taken
from Cincinnati Enquirer. Hurry on your
troops per railroad to o2 q q Rr.rpraARD.
And, on the same day again, Gen, Johnston
receives this other dispatch: ANN
Send Ninth and Tenth Mississippi ana EHI y
Georgia regiments, under Brig. Gen. J.; H.
jackson. to Corinth, so as 20 reunite the Pen
s'1col' "iinS ""''el q. T, BEAuREGARD.
On the fifth Of March, Gen. MaGkall Gen
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HID. ORs. ETC., FAYETvILLB, March D, 1867
JeiSrnLYour letter OF second instant has
been received by Gen. Johnston. he replies
The army advancing, has reached inns pulaire!
will move on to join you as fast as posslble;
I'm arriving of Decatur will decide on the
promptest mode. 49,. .,.,..o,,4
Respectfully, your obedlent servant ~
A. w. MACKALL, A. A. U.
We add another letter from Gen. Beaure-
gard 70 Gen. Johnston (omttting y large NUM-
Der of kilograms all in support OF our state
ments), and will not encumber your columns
with any further evidence, as TO VINO coHce"-
trntgd our forces at Cortnth. ann,
JACKSON, Tenn, March u, 1867.
Dear General q II 80,
YOU must be careful not to be separated from
us by the enemy's forces getting between us
MI or about TusCumbla. Hence you must
fpread the rumor that the main body OF your
forces is going to Chattanooga by lroad VIA
Decatur. to deceive the enemy at Nashville,
for we must try to keep Buell. away from uS
until we can get through WIN NEthI 3 anu
Halleck's other forces. .--s-.-.,
send YOU herewith my notes of reference
to give YOU clear insight into our position
here McCown Is at zo Island no. ~ 4 ana, H ho
mt Humboldt and Union City about 1000 more ~ pre-
Bragg will have soon at Corinth about iO;oOO,
nt Grand Junction about 5000, and at Fort
Pillow about $500; Ruggles, at Corint IA about
soDO, and Chalmers, ut Iuka, about $500. In
Mi. nominally, $1,000 men, less $500 on river,
leaves for the field about 27,5O0 possibly
10000 men, but not all very efficient. cannot
get competent brigadier generals from the
war Department, although l have written
and telegraphed four times on the suDlecC.
am still unwell but am doing the best
can / nominally assumed the command
yesterday Yours truly r RrArRreARp
On the fifth of March, 1862, he assumes
command of the army he has concentrated at
or near Corinth, for the grand battle ne ex-
Dects to fight ''there or thereabouts.'
Now Cen. Beauregard having thus cOncen-
frated all these troops, who organized them
Were the troops, after being concentrated at
gyorinth. left there, unattended to; in word,
SIndiscjplined unorganized by their COM
mander-n-chief2 Is 1t not forced concu-
sion that, having concentrated them, Gen.
BeaureRard also organized themT But Gen.
Johnston himself, and no other, Will answer
Seven DAYS after his arrival at Corinth, to
wit, on the twenty-ninth of March, on his
assuming command Of the whole army, Gen.
Johnston publishes his general orders, III
which we read the following paragraph:
FVII. All general orders touching matters
of Oygnlizatton, discipline and conduct OF me
troops published 6y Gem a. III beggGr@ 10 -
be In force in the whole army until otherwise
directed. and copies thereof will be furnished
to the Third Army Corps ana the reserves
General, q. 5. A..
And. AS Gen. Jordan's testimony seems to
be looked upon, by one OF your correspond
ents, as entitled to some weight on the SUD
iecf now before us, we will add 1t to the above.
yThe fact is that were it in our power, at this
iuDcture to place Gen. Jordan on the stand
ms a witness, we would most cheertully rest
our whole case upon WhaV ne W0uau CeDGfy TO-
in connection with Gen, Johnstons orders on
assuming command r .
auThe above organization Of the forces at
Corinth was submitted by Gen. G. !, BeauF re,
gard, second in command, and adopted by
Gen. A. s. Johnston, first in command wlCh-
out any alteration whatever. ~,
"(Signed) THOMAS JORDAN, A. A. ".
We deem all comments unnecessary. Our
object ia as we before intimated, not to dis
Cuss, but to produce tactS. A., It'll, a
Shiloh and prepared the order OF march OF our
Because, in vindication of what we knew to
be truth, we asserted the above one OF your
correspondents, "VindeX," charges us with
6ng b spg ar "R' tt and sae %th is
for "disputing the right as he terms 1t, OF the
commander Of an army to the credit OF plan
ming his own movements Both call upon
us for proofs. We hope to be able TO satisfy
both.
No one honors more than we do the mem
DRY Of Albert Sidney Johnston, None can
admire more his high character, his patriot
ism, his undaunted valor. Most sincerely 90
we say of the amented herewith thousands
who reverenced his sodiery virtues-that
when he died. so CALAMITY facing the enemy,
the Confederacy thereby lost one OF It's no.
blest defenders.
We never said nor did we even imply that
Gen. Johnston could not have planned the
movements of the army he commanded; nor
did we say that he was unable to conceive and
execute as good a plan of operations as any
of the ablest generals who led our flag to vic
tory before or after the hard fought battle of
Shiloh. What we stated, and what we will
soon establish is, that in this particular case
it was his second in command, to wit Beaure-
not hn TxBhn
and prepared the order of march Of our army.
How can we be charged with injustice for
making an assertion of the truth o.. which we
were positive? How, in so asserting an in
controvertible fact, can we be said "to dispute
the right of the commander of an army to the
credit of planning his own movements We
INTERVIEWED on the contrary, to prevent inius-
tice We merely followed adivine injunction