Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-05-27
FOUGHT FOR SOUTH.
Many Regular Army Officers Joined
The Confederate Forces.

The Confederate Forces.
From inquiry recently made 1t has
been learned that 242 regular army
officers resigned to enter the Confed-
crate service during the civil war. The
movement was gradual, beginning on
December 81, 1860, and continuing to
August %, 1861. The first officer to
resign was Captain and Brevet Major
Henry C. Wayne, assistant quarter
master. He sent in his resignation on
the last day Of 1860. On the following
day Brevet Second Lieutenant Wade
H. Gibbes, Second cavalry, resigned,
and also Second Lieutenant James H.
Hollinquist, Fourth Artillery. UP to
January %. 1861, seven other officers
resigned. In February "a more re-
signed. When the bombardment of
Fort Sumter fired the Southern heart"
resignation followed fast, causing un-
easiness in the north, creating grave
doubts concerning the loyalty Of regu-
lar 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 Chickamauga, and would have done
a. great deal more had he not met a
great Virginian-General George H.
Thomas-was a peaceful paymaster
when the war began, and never turned
his back on the government till June
/, 1861.
Robert Edward Lee resigned the
colonelcy of the First Cavalry on April
| rs, 1861. He had been superintendent
of West Point-the best military school
in the world.
General Fitzhugh Lee was a first
lieutenant in the Second cavalry, and
resigned May 81.
General Joe" Wheeler was second
lieutenant in a regiment Of mounted
riflemen, and resigned April %.
Both armies drilled and fought by
/
"Hardees Tactics"
The day before the battle Of Shiloh
began, Hardee "a Confederate general)
sat on his horse and watched bril-
gade Of Grants soldiers drilling by
"Eardee's Tactics" and the next day
cried out to a captured regiment:
Boys, I saw you drilling by 'Har-
dee's Tactics yesterday. Today you
are fighting by them"
William J. Hardee was lieutenant
colonel Of the First cavalry, and re-
signed on January 81. 1861.
Albert Sidney Johnston, who fell at
the head of his victorious lines on the
first day at Shiloh, was colonel Of the
Second cavalry and brevet brigadieI
general. He resigned on May 8. He
had commanded an expedition against
the Mormons.
General Earl Van Dorm, who fought
so desperately at Iuka and Corinth, and
who afterward at Holly Springs burnt
up the supplies and ammunition Grant
had gathered for the Vicksburg cam
paign-who defeated Grants advance
through Central Mississippi-was ma
jor of the Second cavalry, and resign
ed on the 31st Of January. After his
raid on Holly Springs he was killed
by an injured husband.
General John H. Winder, who won
Ill fame as chief commander OF An
dersonville prison, was major and
brevet lieutenant colonel Of the Fourth
artillery. He resigned on the 9th OF
April.
Captain Lucius B. Northrop, OF the
First Dragons, resigned on January
8, and Is said to have been implicated
in the i'll treatment Of Union prisoners
General Kirby Smith, whose name
was a household word west Of the
Mississippi, was major Of the Seconc
cavalry and resigned on April 6.
Every veteran of the war knows
what a Sibley tent is. 1t was invented
by Major Henry H. Sibley, Of the Ffrs
Dragons, who resigned on May 13.
General John B. Magruder was cap.
tain and brevet lieutenant colonel OF
the First artillery, and resigned or
April 20.
General Richard E. Ewell, who made
such trouble on Meade's right flank al
Gettysburg, and was heard Of at Other
places, was a captain of the First
Dragons, and resigned May Z.
"Stonewalr' Jackson was a first
Lieutenant in the Eighth infantry, and
resigned April 1.
General John c.. Pemberton, who sur
rendered Vicksburg and $4,000 men te
General Grant, and who till then had
been a special favorite Of Jefferson
Davis, was captain and brevet major
in the Fourth artillery, and resigned or
April 20. He was a northern man and
was led to join the Confederacy by his
wife, daughter Of the south.
| General Pierre G. T. Beauregard, OF
South Carolina, who superintended the
bombardment of Ft. Sumter, who COM
manded at Shiloh after the fall OF Al
bert Sidney Johnston, and who fortified
Corinth against Halleck, was captain
and brevet major Of the corps Of en-
gineers. He resigned February 20.
General Lewis A. Armistead. one OF
the heroes Of Pickett's charge at Get
tysburg, was captain and brevet major
of the Sixth infantry. and resigned
May 26. He was a Nirginian, as all
of Pickett's men were. At Gettysburg
he led the forlorn hope across the
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