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JobnstonS Narrative
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MILITARY OPERATIONS, DIRECTED DU
RING THE LATE WAR BETWEEN THE
STATES,
General Joseph Eggleston Johnston was born
in the state of Virginia. Iiis father was a dis
tinguished jurist, and presided for many years
over a circuit court of Virginia. He was named
after Mai. Joseph Eggleston, who being a stu
dent at Wm. and Mary College in 1776, his
vouthful heart stimulated by an early earnest,
yet well developed patriotism, laid aside the
cherished classic page,and with twenty-six oth
er students, young and tender, determined to
broach the storm of the battle field, for the cause
of liberty. Among the gallant little band was
James Monro, James Lyons, four of the Ran
dolphs,comprising Edmond and Peyton and oth
er names historic in the families of the Slate
of Virginia. Joseph Eggleston fought through
the Revolutionary war, and was a distinguished
member of the first constitutional congress.
Gen. Johnston was educated at West Point;
served with distinction in the Mexican war ana
commanded, ‘during the late war between the
States,’ with a success that has placed his name
most deservedly, among the great military men
of the age.
Gen. Johnston says: ‘I offer these pages as
my contribution of materials for the use of the
future historians of the war between the states.
It is by universal consent, a splendid offering
from a man with no superior in the military or
civil departments of the Confederate States
Government
It bears on its every page the indelible stamp
of truth. It is the narrative of n man incapa
ble of misrepresentation, and of one too accu
rate, pains taking and minutely careful to fall
into error in relating what passed under his eye,
or in describing events of which he might have
said, without injustice to his delicate sense of
modesty, and with equal confidence of one of
old, ‘magna parsfui.’
Among the most deserving of military histo
ries is that truly great work, ‘Napier’s Penin
sular War.’ Lord Napier was a soldier and a
scholar, with a cultivated genius that made him
one of the first commanders and writers among
those brilliant men who figured in that war,
which was illustrated by the names of Napoleon
and Wellington.
It has been said that Napier's history of the
Peninsular war was a favorite, and instructive
study with Gen. Winfield Scott; had he lived a
few years longer, he would have found a work
from the pen of his cherished friend, Joseph E.
Johnston, in every respeot equal to the celebra
ted work of the historian of the Peninsular war.
It may be said without exaggeration and in the
eye of a fair and just criticism, in some respects
Johnston*8 style is superior to Napier’s. The
‘Narrative’ is written in faultless English, sim
ple, precise, accurate, every sentence as clear
as the author’s own unclouded perception of
truth which beams on every page, pure as the
unclouded sunlight.
The distinguished author has a reputation
for executive capacity; for talent of the highest
order, indeed for genius, harmoniously ming
led with every high and honorable virtue which
so justly place him among the most eminent
and upright of the good men of the United States.
It is known that unplersant relations existed
between Gen. Johnston and Ex President Da
vis. In the ‘Narrative’ nothing egotistic or pdk-
sonal or in any harsh style or humor reflects on
the Ex President; nor is malice shown toward
any one. The author of the ‘Narrative’ can rest
satisfied, the truth of history will sustain on the
one band and condemn on the other, according
to its own inherent force and incontrovertible
power.
There was no occasion for acerbity of feeling
an the part of Johnston against Davis,on account
of his removable from the command of the Army
of Tennessee. The injury in removing John
ston and placing Hood ir command, was to the
cause of the Confederacy--not to Johnston.
This is the voice of the country. The affection
and gratitude of the poeple will sustain John
ston.
Gen. Johnston acted with promptness in obey
ing, at great sacrifice, a sense of duty, m resign
ing the office of a Brigadier General, in the Uni
ted States Army, and joining the Southern Con
federacy; he was the only officer of equal rank
that did resign. The position he occupied was
Quarter Master General of the United States Ar
my.
The passage of the ordinance of secession by
the State of Virginia, in secret session, on the
17th of April, was not publicly known in Wash
ington until the injunction of secrecy was re
moved ; though it was sent by Telleyron to Wash
ington, by a not very honerable member from
West Virginia, immediately after the votes were
taken.
On Saturday, Gen. Johnston wrote the resig
nation of his commission as officer in the U. S.
Army; on Monday morning it was offered to the
Secretary of War, and immediately accepted.
We are forcibly impressed with the true princi
ple ot the political and constitutional philoso
phy expressed by Gen. Johnston and the sound
ness of his views as contained in his work. The
author is uniformly and consistently practical.
He contends, and truthfully, that Virginia did
not secede on account of the election of Lincoln
to the Presidency; at least two-thirds of the
members of the Convention assembled in Rich
mond, in the spring cf 1861 to consider the ques
tion of secession were elected as ‘Union men.’
It was the determination to ‘ coerce ’ the se-
ceeded States, and the requisition from the Pres
ident of the United States on Virginia to fur
nish her quota of the troops to be organized for
the purpose that influenced the veto of the State
in favor of secession.
No statesmen, or writer has expressed the true
principles on which the origin and course of the
war ought to be based, and on which it can be
justified than has the writer of this work. We
quote the author's language. It can be im
proved neitheir in style or matter. Virginia
had seceeded. ‘War being then inevitable and
the Convention compelled to decide whether the
State should aid in the subjugating of th6 other
southern States, or join them in defense of prin
ciples it has professed since 178‘J—belong to the
invading party, or to that standing on the de
fensive—it chose the latter, and passed its or
der of secession. The people confirmed that
choice by an overwhelming vote.’
The question of secession; the mere politic,
metaphysical abstraction of the politician, in
which but few statesmen coincided in sustain
ing the right thereof, is thus clearly and truth
fully sustained by Gen. Johnston, and in a few
lines, equal in force and brevity to Cmsar or
Tacitus.
He says: ‘I believed like most others, that the
division of the country would be permanent;
and that apart from any right of secession, the
revolution begun was justified by the maxims
bo often repeated by Americans, that free gov
ernment is founded on the consent of the gov
erned, and that every community strong enough
establish and maintain its independence has
right to tasert it’—Narrative, p. 10.
This is political philosophy, independent of,
and uncontrolled by constitutional law, it is
moral and practical trath, dependent only on,
and invading those human rights, whiefi no
laws, no constitution, no government can in
vade, suspend, nor suppress, except by the
hand of usurpation and outrageous violence.
In a few words, does Gen. Johnston make an un
answerable argument in behalf of the South:
‘Apart from any right of secession.’
Great military genius is often characterized
by equally remarkable powers for reasoning—it
is the power of such minds that enables them to
see truth quickly and directly, and men thus
endowed with military capacity often become
the first writers, or statesmen, of this age. This
was true of Julius Cresar, of Frederick the Great,
of Napier, of Napoleon Bonaparte, of Welling
ton, and others that might be mentioned. It
was said of Napoleon Bonaparte, that, after or
dering a convention of learned lawyers to com
pile a code ot civil laws, he often presented
himself before the convention and by a few
words of clear logic, made his position appear
right and satisfactory to the most learned of the
law, in the very face of elaborate discussion,
and reports of commitees. This also frequently
appears to be a striking feature in the mind of
Gen. Johnston, as is illustrated in many para
graphs and sentences of this remarkable work.
The pure, high-toned honor and unselfish
sentiments which actuated Johnston in relin
quishing his honorable position in the United
States Army, is beautifully expressed in the fol
lowing sentence, which follows tl e quotation
made from page 10.—‘Having been educated in
such opinions, I naturally determined to return
to the State of which I was a native, join the
people among whom I was born, and live with
my kindred, and if necessary tight in their de
fence.’
General Johnston was winning laurels in the
field, and sustaining himself in the estimation
of the army and of the whole people with the
exception of President Davis and his sightless
minions, and doing effective service in the most
judicious manner with that noble and patriotic
army under his command, when he received a
telegram from Gen. Cooper, dated July 17th,
1864. ‘Lieutenant-General Hood has been com
missioned to the temporary rank of General un
der the late law of Congress. I am directed by
the Secretary of War to inform you that, as you
have failed to arrest the advance of the enemy
to the vicinity of Atlanta, far in the interior of
Georgia, and expressed no confidence that you
can defeat or repel him, you are hereby re
lieved from the command of the Army and De
partment of Tennessee, which you will immedi
ately turn over to General Hood.’
The great blunder committed by the above
order is now universally acknowledged, as it was
at the time generally condemned. Its very
terms exhibit weakness.
Orders transferring the command of the Army
to General Hood were immediately published.
General Johnston issued an address to the
Army on bidding it farewell. It does not appear
in his narrative. It was dated, July 17th, 1864.
It said:
'I cannot leave this noble Army without con
fessing my admiration for the high military
qualities it has diplayed so conspicuously—ev
ery soldierly virtue, endurance of toil, obedi
ence to orders, brilliant courage.
‘The enemy has never attacked it but to be se
verely repulsed and punished. You, soldiers,
have never argued but from from your courage,
and never counted your fears. No longer your
leader, I will watch your career and will re
joice in your victories.’—Lee and His Generals
by Capt. W. P. Snow, p. 300.
The next morning Gen. Johnston replied to
the honorable Secretary’s telegram; ‘ Your dis
patch of yesterday received and obeyed. Com
mand of the Army end Department of Tennes
see has been transferee! to Gen. Hood. As to
the alleged cause of my removal, I assert that
Sherman’s Army is much stronger compared
with that of Tennessee, than Grant’s compared
with that of Northern Virginia. Yet the enemy
has been compelled to advance much more
slowly to the vicinity of Atlanta, than to that of
Richmond and Petersburg; and penetrated
much deeper into Virginia than into Georgia.
‘Confident language by a military commander
is not usually regarded as evidence of compe
tence.’—‘Narrative,’ p. 349.
This dispatch, historically and logically,
should have confused the Executive Department
at Richmond. Why the President was ‘hood
winked’ into Johnston’s removal has never been
unbandaged. The telegram just quoted, com
plains that Johnston had ‘failed to arrest the
advance of the enemy to the vicinity of Atlanta.’
Did the President improve his plan of defence
after the appointment of Hood ? It has not been
forgotten how rapidly Sherman advanced south,
and into the interior of Georgia after the ap
pointment of Hood, and the execution of those
plans which removed daily the difficulties out
of the way of the advance of the United States
Army into the interior of the Confederacy. We
attach no censure to Gen. Hood, it is presumed
as a dutiful officer that he obeyed the orders of
the Commander-in-Ghiel.
History has demonstrated how the executive,
after his complaint against Johnston, and his re
moval; unintentionally, no doubt offered every
facility to Sherman in his onward march, and
effective attacks against the very life of the Con
federacy. We say ‘unintentionally,’ for it is
not supposed that the President of the South
ern Confederacy was tired of the war, nor that
he did not sympathize with the noble endeav
ors of Georgia, if he was dipleased with her dis
tinguished governor, Joseph E. Brown.
The XL chapter of the ‘Narrative’ is a full just
ification of Gen. Johnston, and shows that ‘The
army of Tennessee did fight, and effectively,
and probably inflicted upon the enemy greater
injury in proportion to that it received than we
read of in the history of any other campaign of
the war, unless in Gen. Lee’s operations in May
of the same year.’ Narrative, p 356.
The above is the language of the author. It
is mild, gentle, and only offensive or satirical
because it is true.
The correspondence between the President
and Joseph E. Brown. Governor of Georgia, pub
lished in chapter XI. of the Narrative, reveals
important history, somewhat against the capac
ity of the chief executive officer of the Confeder
ate States Government.
Chapter XIV. of the Narrative contains a state
ment of what is known as^Mr. Davis’s ‘nnsent
message;’ and Johnston’s reply. This chapter
places the President in an unpleasant attitude.
Johnston is entitled to the truth of history, by
which tne author, doubtless, is willing to stand
or fall; his pen is proven to be as pure, keen,
and polished, yet as severe, as his untarnished
sword. We will make no further allusion to it;
the reader should examine it carefully and he
will be fully satisfied of the unintentional in
justice done Gen. Johnston.
The Narrative is not as full of the justifica
tion of history as the author deserves. His per
fect satisfaction in an honest, efficient, success
ful, patriotic course, sustained by the highest
authority is the gilded way of modest and un
surpassed merit.
We will make an extract from a well received
author, whose statements can be verified, and
which were withheld by the author of the Nar
rative, from a delicate sense of modesty:
‘Johnston was shelved by the executive author
ities, until the state of affairs was suoh, under
Sherman’s successes in South Carolina, that the
public voice almost demanded his recall. Ac
cordingly, at the end of January, 1865,the South
ern Congress signified to the President that it
was the wish of the people that Johnston should
be restored to his command. Still there was de
lay; a singular degree of opposition was mani
fested by certain members of the Senate, and
some of the official authorities.’ Lee and His
Generals, p 30.
The popular wish prevailed over the whim of
the President. He yielded, but it was to recall
the distinguished chieftain too late, and only to
manifest his great skill in gathering the golden
fragments of the broken bowl. He came in at
the surrender and was the presiding genius of
capitulation.
The Narrative is written in a pure style, re
markable for simplicity, precision and brevity,
and will compare favorably with some of the
most approved writers, ancient or modern.
An examination of the work under consid
eration will satisfy the most critical student
that the author is not only a man of a high order
of military genius, but has uniformly exhibited
unusual soundness of judgment in all matters
relating to public as well as military affairs, to
the council business of the army, as well as to
the conflict of the battlefield. His advice in
military matters having often shown a pres
cience sustained by subsequent experience.
Almost as soon as he was reinstated, his nego
tiations began with Gen. Sherman. The terms
of the armistice, and the convention exhibit
skill and wisdom, not only as a military man
but as one thoroughly conversant with those
public interests which belong to affairs of State,
Chapter XIII. On the Causes of Failure, Miss-
application of Means: Insufficient Financial Sys
tem; Bad Impressment Laws; and kindred topics;
bears unmistakable evidence of a high order of
statesmanship. He says with great force:
‘The cause of the subjugation of the Southern
States was neither want of wealth and popula
tion, nor devotion to their cause That people
was not guilty of the high crime of undertaking
a war without the means of waging it success
fully. We had ample means, which, unfortu
nately were not applied to the object of equip-
ing great armies and bringing them into the
field. A full treasury was necessary to defray
the expenses of a great war. The South had the
means of making one in its cotton alone; but
its government rejected those means, and limit
ed its financial efforts to printing bank-notes,
with which the country was flooded. The neces
sity of actual money in the treasury, and the
mode of raising it, were generally understood
in the country. It was that the government
should take the cotton from the owners and send
it to Europe as fast as possible, to be sold there.
This was easily practicable, for the owners were
ready to accept any terms the government
might fix; and sending to Europe was easy in
all the first year of the Confederacy’s existence.
Its government went into operation early in
February. The blockade of the Southern Forts
was proclaimed in May, but not at all effective
until the end of the following winter; so that
there was a period of about twelve months for
the operation of converting four or five million
bales of cotton into money. The sum unpaid
in that way would have enabled the War Depart
ment to procure at once arms enough for half a
million of men, and after that expenditure the
confederate treasury would have been much
richer than that of the United States. By ap
plying the first money obtained in this way to
the purchase of arms and military accoutre
ments, or using for the purpose of credit which
such an amount of property would have given,
the War Department would have been able to
equip troops as fast as they oould be assembled
and organized. And as the Southern people
were full of enthusiasm, five hundred thousand
men could have been ready and in the field had
such a course been pursued at the time when
the first battle was ujstually fought—the 21st of
July, 1861. Such a Three placed on the North
ern borders of the Confederacy before the Unit
ed States had brought a fourth of the number
in the field, wouldppiobably have prevented
the very idea of ‘coercion.’ Such a disposition
of such an army, and the possession of financial
means of carrying on war for years would have
secured the success of the Confederacy.’ ‘Nar
rative,’ Chap. XIII.
This chapter on the causes of failure exhibits
evidence of the highest order of statesmanship.
It is too long to be copied in this sketch. IV e
are satisfied that all well informed readers will
agree with the author that, ‘The timely adop
tion of such financial system would have secur
ed to us the means of success, even without an
extraordinary importation of arms, and the im
mediate organization ol large armies.’ Narrative
p 423.
The careful examination of the statements in
chapter XIII, in relation to the management cf
military affairs of those entirely out of the field
and exempt from military duty, except voting
for conscript law, and advising the executive
how to execute them, will convince every can
did man, that the cause of the Confederacy fail
ed on account of mismanagements and the want
of capacity in the government, notwithstand
ing the miraculous skill and genius of the com
manders in the field, and the unparalleled brav
ery and endurance of the soldiers.
We have no desire to censure the Legislative
and Executive departments of the late Confed
eracy; but history should be known, and its
truths appreciated; political philosophy is al
ways full of lessons of wisdom for succeeding
generations, if its fruits are properly preserved
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