The Syracuse Journal, Volume 6, Number 38, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 15 January 1914 — Page 2

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The War Fifty Years Ago . . )■ ——— General U. S. Grant’s Plan For the Western Army. Forces Under General W. T. Sherman to Wrest Atlanta, Ga., From Confederates Under General Joseph E. Johnston—Johnston’s Career la War Previous to 1864—Had Fought In Front of Richmond In 1862—A Factor In the Defense of Vic : s burg—Peace Talk— Confederate Proposals Rebuffed In Washington—Lincoln Lo?*h to Treat.

By Capt. GEORGE L. KILMER. Lite U. S. V. EARLY in January, 1864, General U. S. Grant had been invited by the general in chief, H. W. Halleck, to give an outline of the campaign he thought advisable for the commands under himself and General W. T. SLermau. General J. E. Johnston was defending Atlanta and the interior of Georgia with an army, the largest part of which was stationed at Dalton, about thirty-eight miles south of Chattanooga, Tenn. Dalton is at the junction of the railroad from Cleveland, Tenn., with the one from Chattanooga to Atlanta. Johnston’s army was named as the first objective and the important railroad center at Atlanta the second. At that time it was expected that General N. Pj Banks would be through with the winter campaign in Texas, upon which he had been ordered and ready to co-operate with the armies

J ai « ■ . ■ Copyright by Review of Reviews company. GENERAL JOSEPH EGGLESTON JOHNSTON, C. S. A., COMMANDER OF THE ARMY DEFENDING ATLANTA.

east of the Mississippi, his part in the program being to move upon Mobile, Ala., by land, while the Federal navy would close the harbor and assist to the best of its ability. The plan, therefore, was for Sherman to attack Johnston and destroy his army, i if possible, to capture Atlanta and hold it, and with his troops and those of Banks to hold a line through to Mobile, or at least to hold Atlanta and command the railroad east and west. This would cut the Confederacy in two again, as gaining possession of the Mississippi river by conquering Vicksburg had done before. A New Johnston In the Field. The Confederate army which was to buffet the attack Grant was preparing to make on Atlanta had received a new commander late in December, 1563. This was General Joseph E. Johnston, a new figure on western battlefields. Wounded in front of Richmond the summer of 1562, Johnston had been sent to the Mississippi region early in 1863 as general in chief over three departments, including the army defending Vicksburg under General J. C. Pemberton, the army then operating in Tennessee under General Braxton Bragg and the forces marshaled under the Lone Star flag beyond the great river. Fixing his headquarters nominally at Chattanooga, he moved from place to place without, however, taking active leadership in any battle. - t Under Johnston, Bragg fought the great battles of Stone River, Chickamauga and Chattanooga. Under him also Pemberton fought and lost at Vicksburg. Yet his name does not appear in the histories of these combats except by mere incidental mention in connection with Vicksburg. For some reason the Confederate executive and General Johnston didn’t get on well together. The general chafed over being kept from actual contact with the fighting forces. Although it was a step backward to give up the control of three armies and take command of one. Johnston put his hand to the new task with whole hearted energy. Grant said that he was a man to give his foemen trouble and that his policy was the correct one for the south at that stage of the

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conflict. He believed in taking no risks qnd in prolonging the war until the north was tired out. His plan was to let tiie mirth force the fighting while th? s ’ ath parried the blows and husbanded her strength. By these same tactics George Washington won the Revolution. Soldiers Barefoot In Winter. Grant’s high opinion of the military ability ol’ his opponent in front of Chattano.'-a illustrates a peculiar phase of military experience. Johnston was <’.i. trusted by his own government ami rested under a cloud when he succeeded Bragg after the latter's in.aiorlous retreat from Mission Rid;,o am! joined the defeated army at Dalton. Vicksburg and Chattanoifga had been lost to his department, wrested from his control by Grant. The''l oss of Vicksburg was laid at Johnston's door by Jefferson Davis.

He blamed Johnston for standing idly by while Grant surrounded and penned in the Vicksburg garrison, under Pemberton. On one particular occasion, before Grant had brought up all his troops and hemmed Pemberton in, Davis said that Johnston sent Pemberton orders in writing to attack the foe and cut his way out when he should have gone in person to Pemberton and directed the fight. Johnston said that he sent the order in writing because he was preparing to lead an attack in person from the outside of Grant’s lines while Pemberton drove at the same point from the inside. Pemberton received the written order and put his troops in motion to carry it out, then suddenly changed his mind, and attacked in another direction, failing in the attempt and losing Johnston’s aid. The weapon placed in Johnston’s hand to keep the Army of the Tennessee out of Atlanta was in a battered condition just at the time he took hold of it, Dec. 27, 1863. It had lost 25.000 men in battle during the three months’ campaign ending Nov. 25 at Mission Ridge. The rolls showed. a fighting strength of 36,000 men, but 6,000 of these were barefoot and 6,000 without muskets and blankets. There was a lack of forage for the animals, and the battery horses were too feeble to draw the guns. Johnston* found awaiting him at army headquarters a very pointed hint from President Davis in Richmond that he immediately make a dash into Tennessee and recover the ground lost by his predecessor. He did not act upon the suggestion for the reason that his army was not in condition to meet heavy odds# and he thought the best plan would be to stand at Dalton until the Federals attacked him there. He hoped to beat them and send them back to Tennessee, when he would follow and recover the territory. Johnston’s Old Army Record. General Joseph E. Johnston was a native of Virginia and, like Robert E. Lee, resigned his commission in the United States army to “go with his state” in 1861. He was the same age as Lee and had reached fifty-six when called u;xm to defend Atlanta. His

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1 in the old army had been adventurous and exciting from the time he left West Point until the close of the Mexican war. In battle with the Florida Indians he was severely wounded in the head when a lieuten- , ant just out of the Military academy. ■ He distinguished himself under General Winfield Scott at the battle of Cerro Gordo, Mexico, and in the storming of Chapultepec planted with his own hands the first American banner unfurled above the castle walls. In point of rank at least Johnston stood highest in the United States army among all the officers who resigned their commissions to go with the Confederacy. He was one of five leaders honored with the full rank of general by the Confederate government. Finding his name fourth on the j list instead of first, as he contended ! that it should be, according to the law governing the appointment of officers, he protested against the injustice. This protest, made in August, 1861; soon after the battle of Bull Hun, is believed to have caused friction be- ■ tween him and President Davis. The town of Dalton, where Johnston I found tiie beqten and dispirited troops j turned over to him by Bragg at Christ- | mastide, 1863, was a place of no milii tary* imporfance and unsuited for battle for troops on the defensive. It ; was an accidental camp, the Confederates haying halted there on their retreat from Mission ridge the 25th of November. > A broad, open valley lies north of the town, and the approaches from Chattanooga j would be favorable for the attacking army. Johnston kept up strong outposts at Ringgold and Resaca to hold the enemy at arm’s length and set to work to fortify Atlanta as a base. Atlanta is 100 miles south of Dalton, with tliree rivers intervening. j Johnston would have welcomed an atj tack of equal numbers, but Grant was < not so foolhardy. He knew his man and prepared to set Sherman at the task, with odds in his favor of two to one. Peace Talk. This time fifty years ago there were persistent rumors of peace negotiations either taking place or about to take place between the United States an l the Confederate States. Shortly before New Year's rumors came from the south to the effect that the Confix'mate vice president, Alexander H. hens, was about to enter the Federal li; cs with peace proposals. North Carolina was the center of a strong peace movement, and its governor. General Z. B. Vance, wrote to 'President Davis making the, novel proposition that the attitude of the north be tested. lie stated with frankness the discontent of many of his people and said: “I have concluded that it will be difficult to remove It except by making some effort at negotiation with the enemy. ♦ * ♦ I am promised by all men who advocate this course that if fair terms are rejected (by the north) it will tend greatly to strengthen and intensify the war feeling and will rally all classes to the support of the (Confederate) government.” Writing in reply on Jan. 8, President Davis said that three distinct efforts had been made to open negotiations with Washington, all unsuccessful. Vice President Stephens had been stopped by Federal authority while he was proceeding toward Washington on j a peace mission and turned back to i the Confederate lines. “To attempt ' again (in the face of repeated rejections of all conference with us) is to invite insult and contumely and to subject ourselves to indignity without the slightest chance of being heard.” The attitude of Mr. Lincoln was that the United States government could not recognize the Southern Confederacy even so far as to enter into preliminary negotiations with its agents. Later General W. T. Sherman, while in Georgia, invited the governor of the state and Vice President Stephens to meet him in a peace conference. Governor Brown declined because Sherman had no power to negotiate peace, and Stephens asked for assurances which Sherman could not give, A Record Making Battleship. The most successful ironclad brought into action in 1863 was the armored frigate New Ironsides. Early in that year she joined the Federal squadron at Charleston and achieved a record never surpassed by an armored vessel. The New Ironsides was built of wood and armored from below the water line to the deck with four and onehalf inch plating. She. was 232 feet ' long, 58 broad and of 4,120 tons displacement. The armament was sixteen eleven-inch smoothbore guns, two 220-pounder Parrott rifles and four twenty-four-pounder howitzers. When the ironclad fleet made its celebrated attack on Fort Sumter April 7, 1863, the New Ironsides was the flagship. She advanced to within 1,700 yards of the tort and sustained the greatest amount of pounding by shot and shell with the least damage of any ironclad in the fleet. Whereas the plating of the monitors in action I alongside were often broken in, bolts ! displaced and plating loosened by the ; shock of missiles, there was no disturbance whatever inside the New Ironsides. At one time that day she stood over a submarine torpedo, but the land wire by which the infernal machine was to be exploded was momentarily out of order, and she escaped. However, she was later struck squarely by a torpedo boat, and the result was simply a jar of the ship, with no dam- : age to the armor. Altogether the New Ironsides dur- | ing her career of two years achieved ; the record of having engaged in more actions than any vessel ever afloat and been struck with more projectiles. Yet she was never put out of action and her armor never pierced.

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