Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-17
FOUGHT FOR |, TIE SOUTH
REGULAR ARMY OFFICERS IN
ooNFEDERETH ARMY.
Resigned United States Commissions to
Take Up ArmS Against the
Union Cause.


From inquiry recently made 1t has been
learned that 242 regular army officers re-
signed to enter the confederate service dur
ing the civil war. Thaa movement was
gradual, beginning on December 81, 1860.
and continuing to August %, 1851. The
first officer to resign WAS Captain and
Brevet Major Henry G., Wayne, assistant
quartermaster. He sent, in his resignation
on the last day of $780, On the following
day Brevet Second Lieutenant Wade H.
Gibbes, I'd Cavalry resigned, and also Sec
ond Lieutenant James H. Hollinquist, 4th
Artillery. Up to January %. 1854, seven
other officers resigned. In February twen-
ty-four more resigned. When the lombard
ment of Fort Sumter .fred the southern
heart designations followed fast, causing
much uneasness in The north, creating
grave doubts concerning the loyalty of reg
ular army officers, of whom SO much was
now expected, and also generating intense
and unjust prejudice against the West
Point Military Academy. The humble rank
of many at the outset who afterward held
high command is interesting to note
The late General James Longstreet, who
shattered the army Of Rosecrans at Chick
amauga, and would have done great deal
more had he not met a great Virginian-
General George III. Thomas-was peaceful
turned his back on disagreement till June
/, 1861
Robert Edward Lee resigned the colonelcy
OF the LIST Cavalry on April %, 1861. He
had been superintendent of \. est Point
the best military school in the world
General Fitzhugh Lee was first lieuten-
ant in the I'd Cavalry and resigned May 81
General joe Wheeler was second lieu
tenant IN regiment OF mounted rifiemen.
and resigned April o.
The famous General Joseph E. Johnston
was brigadier general and quartermaster
general, and resigned April o. Is
Both armies drilled and fought by '.Har-
dees Tactics
The day before the battle of Shiloh began
Hardee "a confederate. generaD sat on his
horse and watched a brigade Of Grants
soldiers drilling by "Hardee's Tactics" and
the next day cried out to a captured regi-
ment:
Boys, saw you drilling by Hardees
Tactics yesterday. Today you are fighting
by them"
William ]. Hardee was lieutenant colonel
OF the LIST Cavalry, and resigned on Janu-
airy 81, 1861.
Albert Sidney Johnston, who fell at the
head of his victorious lines on the first day
at Shiloh was colonel Of the I'd Cavalry
and brevet brigadier general. He resigned
on May 3. He had commanded an expedi-
ton against the Mormons.
Gen. Earl Van Dorm. who fought so des-
perately at Iuka and Corinth, and who aft
erward at Holly Springs burnt up the sup
plies and ammunition Grant had gathered
for the Vicksburg campaign-who defeated
Grants advance through central Missis-
sippi-was major of the I'd Cavalry, and re-
signed on the 31st of January After his
raid on Holly SpringschA was killed by an
injured husband. ..of n.
Gen. John H. Winder, Who won i'll fame
as chief commander '4of Andersonville
prison, was major and brevet lieutenant
colonel of the 4th Artillery. He resigned
on the 2Ith of April. sw "
Capt. Lucius B. NorthrOp of the LIST Dra-
goons resigned on Jandary 8. and is said
to have been implicated In the Ill treat
ment of Union prisoners
Gen. Kirby Smith, whose name was a
household word westf Of the Mississippi,
on April 6. 'ii@ ~
Every veteran of the war knows what
Sibley tent is. 1t was Invented by Maj.
resigned on May 49, g. 9aF
Gen. Jno b. Magruder was captain and
lrevet lieutenant colonel of the 1st Artii-
lery. and resigned onsAprfil2o .aat, +s11
trouble on Meade,s right flank at Gettys-
burg and was heard of at other places, was
a captain of the list Dragons, and re-
.s.stonewalr' Jackson was first lieuten-
ant in the Sth Infantry, and resigned
Gen. John c.. Pemberton, who surrendered
yicksburg and 37,000 men to Gen. Grant,
and who till then had been special favor
lite of Jefferson Davis, was captain ana
brevet major in the 4th Artillery, and re-
signed on April 20. He was northern
man. and was led to join the confederacy
by his WIFE a daughter of the south.
Gen. Pierre G. T. Beauregard of South
Carolina, who superintendent the bompard-
ment of Fort Sumter. who commanded at
Shiloh after the fall of Albert Sidney john
ston, and who fortified Corinth against
Halleck, was captain and brevet major OF
the Corps of Engineers. He resigned feo-
r 1ary 20.
Pickett at Gettysburg.
Gen. Lewis A. Armistead, one of the
heroes of Picketts charge at Gettysburg,
was captain and brevet major of the 9th
Infantry, and resigned May 20. He was
vlrginian, as all of Picketts men We're At
Gettysburg he led the forlorn hope across
the stone wall, and was killed about twelve
PAGES inside of 1t. When he fell Lieut..
Gushing OUnion) was ten PAGES in front OF
him, and was killed while firing charge
of grape and canister into the confederate
ranks from the last available gun of the
Cushing battery. 49,
Capt. George ID. Pickett resigned from
the 9th Infantry on JuneO25.
Capt j. E. B. Stuart of the LIST Cavalry
resigned May IA to become Gen. Jeb''
Stuart, Lees great cavalry leader who was
mortally wounded in battle.
Gen. Ambrose P. Hill, lees right
bower" was first lieutenant of the 1st
Artillery, and resigned March 1. In q dying
delirium Stonewall Jackson said: Order
A. p. Hill to prepare for action. Pass the
infantry to the front" Then, as II the
fray had been won, he added: Let US
cross the river and rest In the shade of the
trees" When Grant was crushing the lines
at Petersburg Lee said to Hill: General,
your men are giving way" Hill galioped
Into the melee and fell
Gen. John B. Villepigue, who led a wing
OF Prices army at Corinth. was first lieu
tenant of the I'd Dragons, and resigned on
March 81.
Gen. John B. Hood, who fought with Sner-