JONES, SAMUEL, Brigadier General, C.S.A. Autograph letter signed ("Sam. Jones") with initialled postscript TO P.G.T. BEAUREGARD, with a pencilled note by Beauregard signed with initials, Mattoax, Virginia, 3 March l870. 4 pages, 4to. RECALLING A MEETING WITH PRESIDENT DAVIS AND "OUR SIGNAL VICTORY AT MANASSAS" An interesting letter in which, nearly a decade later, two former Confederate Generals look back on strategic decisions in the early months of the War. "...I am sorry to say that I have no notes...from which I could make out a report of my interview with Pres. [Jefferson] Davis in May or June l86l...when you sent me to submit to him your proposed plan for concentrating our forces in Va. for the purpose of giving battle. The only record I remember to have made of the interview...was burned with nearly all my papers with the house in which they were. If...you have a copy of the letter you wrote to the Pres. at the time I would like very much to have a copy...[and also a copy of] the memorandum that I wrote, under your direction, on the night of the 13th July for Col. [James] Chestnut whom you sent to Richmond early the next morning to urge upon the Pres. the movement which was made by Genl. [Joseph E.] Johnston a few days later & resulted in our signal victory at Manassas. You may remember that you and I had a very long conversation on he subject that night...which resulted in your calling up Chestnut and instructing him to go to Richmond to confer with the President.....The other paper...is the written statement I made to you, at your request, a day or two before I left Centervill[e] to relieve Genl. Bragg at Pensacola...." In his postscript, Jones adds that: "the letter that you wrote to the Pres. by me...will show what your plan was. My recollection is very distinct that the Pres. expressed surprise that you should have thought it necessary to send a Col. of your staff to lay before him a plan which was he said so obvious that it could not fail to suggest itself to any one reflecting on the subject. The impression produced on my mind was that he thought your plan would be wise and judicious under certain circumstances, but that there were difficulties in the way which he did not think proper to discuss with me at that time...." Beneath, Beauregard writes: "note. My letter of June 12/6l has since been found as well as Presdt. Davis answer. G.T.B." At the first battle of Bull Run (Manassas) Jones was the Confederate army's Chief of Artillery.
JONES, SAMUEL, Brigadier General, C.S.A. Autograph letter signed ("Sam. Jones") with initialled postscript TO P.G.T. BEAUREGARD, with a pencilled note by Beauregard signed with initials, Mattoax, Virginia, 3 March l870. 4 pages, 4to. RECALLING A MEETING WITH PRESIDENT DAVIS AND "OUR SIGNAL VICTORY AT MANASSAS" An interesting letter in which, nearly a decade later, two former Confederate Generals look back on strategic decisions in the early months of the War. "...I am sorry to say that I have no notes...from which I could make out a report of my interview with Pres. [Jefferson] Davis in May or June l86l...when you sent me to submit to him your proposed plan for concentrating our forces in Va. for the purpose of giving battle. The only record I remember to have made of the interview...was burned with nearly all my papers with the house in which they were. If...you have a copy of the letter you wrote to the Pres. at the time I would like very much to have a copy...[and also a copy of] the memorandum that I wrote, under your direction, on the night of the 13th July for Col. [James] Chestnut whom you sent to Richmond early the next morning to urge upon the Pres. the movement which was made by Genl. [Joseph E.] Johnston a few days later & resulted in our signal victory at Manassas. You may remember that you and I had a very long conversation on he subject that night...which resulted in your calling up Chestnut and instructing him to go to Richmond to confer with the President.....The other paper...is the written statement I made to you, at your request, a day or two before I left Centervill[e] to relieve Genl. Bragg at Pensacola...." In his postscript, Jones adds that: "the letter that you wrote to the Pres. by me...will show what your plan was. My recollection is very distinct that the Pres. expressed surprise that you should have thought it necessary to send a Col. of your staff to lay before him a plan which was he said so obvious that it could not fail to suggest itself to any one reflecting on the subject. The impression produced on my mind was that he thought your plan would be wise and judicious under certain circumstances, but that there were difficulties in the way which he did not think proper to discuss with me at that time...." Beneath, Beauregard writes: "note. My letter of June 12/6l has since been found as well as Presdt. Davis answer. G.T.B." At the first battle of Bull Run (Manassas) Jones was the Confederate army's Chief of Artillery.
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