Thursday, March 6, 2014

March 7, 1864---Longstreet disobeys Orders



MARCH 7, 1864:        

General James Longstreet C.S.A. refuses to heed direct orders from President Jefferson Davis to move his Command from the borders of Tennessee into southern Kentucky. 

 
It was Davis’ hope that an invasion of Kentucky might reignite the war there and stimulate action among Confederates within the State. Longstreet however knows that he simply does not have enough men to launch an offensive into the now tightly-held Union Commonwealth of Kentucky; he also knows that whatever Confederates there may have been in Kentucky at the beginning of the war have all long since emigrated southward; but mostly he knows that Davis has no reinforcements to send him. He refuses to sacrifice to no advantage the men he has.

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