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Joseph E. Johnston (1807-1891) was one of the highest ranking Confederate generals, and also one of the most criticized. In his memoirs, Narrative of Military Operations during the Civil War, Johnston defends his decisions, and gives a vivid recount of the war.
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- Sales Rank: #587091 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-11-04
- Released on: 2012-11-04
- Format: Kindle eBook
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
This book is worth reading
By Richard Stafford
This is a well-written recollection by a primary player in the War Between the States. There were two men identified as General Johnston in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Both were highly regarded by the Confederate leaders. Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston was killed in the battle of Shiloh. Jefferson Davis claimed that the death of the Johnston killed in Shiloh was so disastrous that it brought ultimate defeat to the South.
But Joseph Johnston was the highest ranking officer in the United States to resign his commission in order to join the Confederate army. He also was among the most highly respected of strategists, although perhaps more by his Northern foes than by his Southern bosses.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston whose tactics and exploits are recounted in this book was the leader whose strategy Gen. U.S. Grant evaluated as the one most dangerous and most likely to have achieved the goals of southern independence -- although to apply it successfully that strategy and the accompanying tactics would have had to be accepted and pursued by the upper echelon of Southern power. It was not.
Gen. Joseph Johnston argued that the Confederate army was much smaller than the Union army and that the greater resources in available manpower also belonged entirely to the North. Therefore, he advocated a process of avoiding pitched battles when possible, and always avoiding them when his enemies had the tactical advantage; he had fought many wars in the West and elsewhere as part of the U.S. Army, and also because of his experience as Quartermaster General for the U.S. until the Civil War started, he adjusted his tactical and strategic fighting methods to what he thought might work. He wanted to fight only when he knew his forces had the advantage. His proposal was to hit hard and then run if necessary, but to hold on long enough to tire the people of the North. He thought it was possible to wear the patience of Northern taxpayers and soldier families. He argued that by attrition and by continuing on and on and on, the South ultimately could force the North to accept its terms to end the fighting. Grant and Sherman both seemed to agree that this was a dangerous possibility, and they did everything they could to prevent it from being carried out. This Joseph Johnston is the general associated with most of the great battles, starting with the first Bull Run. He was wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines, and that is when he was replaced as top general by Robert E. Lee. He returned to a leadership role in the West and was blamed, perhaps unfairly, for Gen. Pemberton's failure at Vicksburg. This great Southern general, Joe Johnston, often fought Grant and (especially) Sherman, although disputes with the Confederate president and secretary of war led to his being relieved of command while he was defending Atlanta. He was replaced by Gen. John Bell Hood, whose courage (which cost him the use of his arm and the loss of a leg) sometimes was costly to his forces. Hood was driven from his defenses and then was soundly defeated in the Battle of Nashville by the very careful Gen. George Thomas. Johnston was reinstated and continued to lead his army until after Lee surrendered. This is a very fine account of the Civil War battles. If it has any weakness, it is that it seems to have been written in part to defend an able man from critics who blamed him for failures that may have been equally attributable to others. In this sense it resembles books by Gen. James Longstreet (who ably defends himself against charges brought by supporters of a rival who was well connected by not so thoroughly versed in the profession of a warrior as he pretended to be) and several others who played important roles in the war. This is a great book, especially if it is read with critical sensitivity. It tells a story of fierce jealousies that become apparent only in somewhat dry official terms. These dry terms create an overlay that sometimes camouflages nefarious and unjust acts of powerful people. But the story is here.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Dont Blame Me
By Jim
Johnston never admits a mistake in this entire book but he kept retreating and according to him, he never lost a fight. Other credible historians say the best thing that ever happened to the south was when Johnston sustained a wound that knocked him out of the war temporarily and he was replaced by Robert E. Lee. The first few half of the book was interesting in giving his perspective of the battles and how the army was organized. He also describes some of the bureaucratic problems of the confederacy. In the second half of the book there were a near endless series of letters that rehashed the first half and were used to back up Johnston's assertion that if he had been running things the south would have achieved independence. In spite of my negative opinion of Johnston, I found it fascinating that he had a friendship with both Grant and Sherman. He attended Sherman's funeral and was a pall bearer.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
the war was lost by poor Confederate generalship in the West
By Dhampir
Disclosure: I received a review copy of this book from NetGalley.
The years following the end of the Civil War were filled with writing, as interested parties attempted to seize control of the narrative. Among the dominant voices were Edward A. Pollard and Jubal Early, who together originated much of the Lost Cause mythology which still exists today. The argument was framed in simplistic terms, which have been repeatedly shown to be false by subsequent historians, but which are seductive in their form. Among the key points are that the South fought for causes other than slavery, that the North only won because they were able to bring overwhelming numerical superiority to bear, and that, paradoxically, the war was lost by poor Confederate generalship in the West. These are not the only points, but they are the points relevant to the book under review. This was a psychological coping mechanism: the end of the war brought catastrophic economic and social change to the social milieu of the South and the loss had to be explained in a way which salvaged dignity and reaffirmed masculinity. But along the way, the arguments inevitably required scapegoats. One of those scapegoats was Joseph E. Johnston.
Modern historians rate him very highly, as did his contemporary Union opponents, but he was a necessary target for Lost Cause writers due to his position as 1. being in command of the principal Eastern army before Robert E. Lee; 2. being a general who was in charge of the Western Theater of war. Johnston was also an easy target, as he possessed a pride several sizes too large for his frame. He was sensitive and prickly and very disputatious. As a result, he built a negative reputation during the war, and post war writers made hay while the sun shone.
Many generals took up the pen to defend themselves against accusations from rivals--both wartime and post war rivals--and Johnston likely would have been unable to resist the impulse to defend himself even if he was hesitant to answer his critics. His Narrative of Military Operations was originally published by D. Appleton and Company of New York in 1874. And it failed as a book, and his published failed to turn a profit. The book has since fallen into some obscurity. It is republished every decade or so, most recently by Da Capo in the1990s and by the University of Michigan in the early 2000s. A newish decade comes a new edition, from Endeavour Press Ltd. This edition, in electronic format, is a respectable representation. It is reasonably well edited in its review copy form and includes Johnston's original chapter headings and footnotes.
The significance of this work is not in what Johnston has to say about his operations. The campaign narrative is extremely dry--Unit X moved to Position Y on Z Date--and does not reveal any significant view into Johnston's strategic or tactical decision making. Rather, the book is most useful as a historiographical document. Johnston answers nearly every significant accusation against him in post war literature up to the writing of the book, and does so with extensive documentation. His answering of accusations surrounding the loss of Vicksburg alone consumes nearly 10% of the book, by my Kindle's counting.
In his answering his critics directly, one can see a slice of the historical discussion we are still popularly in the midst of unfolding on the pages. We also see Johnston's personality displayed and we can see why he had a reputation for being prideful and prickly. In this way, Johnston's account of his campaigns is important and this republishing is a significant boon for serious students of the Civil War. The real meat of the historical profession is in the historiography, and this is a major contribution.
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