Lot 13
Beauregard Pierre 1818 - 1893 Portion of a statement by Confederate spy Thomas Jordan on General Johnston's actions at the Battle of Shiloh, docketed by P.G.T. Beauregard
The final page of an apparently longer manuscript statement signed by Thomas Jordan, one page, 8" x 10", no place or date, addressed to General G.T. Beauregard in New Orleans, Louisiana. Beauregard dockets the verso on October 10, 1877 at New York "Gen'l Thos. Jordan relative to Col. W. Preston's note of Oct 10/77 denying certain facts or statements thereof contained in Gen'l J[ohnston]s narrative of events referring to the Shiloh Campaign of April 1862". Worn, with grease marks, fold splits. Easily read.
Jordan (1819-1895) was a Confederate spy and later a general in the CSA army during the American Civil War. A career soldier in the armies of three nations, he fought in numerous wars and rebellions in the United States, Mexico, and Cuba. Jordan was also a newspaper editor and author. "... neither in my memoir nor now have I sought to criticize the actions of General Johnston. He doubtless had his own reasons for the delay in deciding upon the point at which to assemble the Confederate forces under his direction. Doubtless, he desired meanwhile to be a little more certain than he was as to the ultimate plan of operations of the enemy upon that theatre of war. What happened however, is a part of the history of affairs in that quarter at that time, and I could not narrate them as they happened within my knowledge when called upon by you for a memoir of them."
The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought on April 6 and April 7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. Confederate forces under Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and P.G.T. Beauregard launched a surprise attack against the Union army of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and came close to defeating his army. Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard (1818-1893), best known as a general for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, was also a writer, civil servant, and inventor. He was the first prominent Confederate general, commanding the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina, for the Battle of Fort Sumter, and was the victor at the First Battle of Bull Run. He commanded armies in the Western Theater for the Battle of Shiloh and Siege of Corinth.
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