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Wasn't Hardee offred command of at least the Army of Tennessee and he declined it?? He actually temporarily commanded it I do believe. Just read about all this recently concerning the CSA Invasion of Kentucky and Murfreesboro Camapigns.
I think you all are doing some very good and informative biographies.
Chris
In a bio on Joseph E. Johnston I found that Hardee was offered army command when Bragg was removed after Missionary Ridge. Hardee however declined as he wanted Johnston as commander. As the author of the bio is the same who wrote about Cleburne, where he says nothing about Hardee declinig an offer for army command, I am confused.
Okay, Hardee declined command after Missionary Ridge that was confirmed by www.civilwarhome.com. Gil, I will edit the bio accordingly.
If there's something I should look up in my definitive encyclopedia let me know -- otherwise, I'll assume that the issue is settled.
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Lt. Gen. William Joseph Hardee (b. 1815, d. 1873). Hardee, nicknamed “Old Reliable,” was probably the best Confederate corps commander in the West. His feud with Gen. Braxton Bragg and his friendship with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, however, would hinder him from becoming an army commander. A native of Georgia, Hardee graduated from West Point in 1838 and served in the U.S. Army in the cavalry, fighting against the Seminoles and seeing action in the war against Mexico. He was best known as the author of the army’s official manual on tactics, also called “Hardee’s Tactics.” At the outbreak of the Civil War, Hardee offered to serve in the Confederate army and Pres. Jefferson Davis appointed him brigadier general on June 13, 1861, sending him to Arkansas to take command of the troops in the upper district of that state. It was in this capacity that he would meet Gen. Patrick Cleburne, who would soon become a Hardee protege. When these Arkansas forces were attached to Gen. Albert S. Johnston’s Army of Mississippi in Kentucky, Hardee, who had been promoted to major general on October 7, became divisional commander and then corps commander, leading his corps in the Battle of Shiloh on April 6-7, 1862. When Bragg was given command of this army in the aftermath of Johnston’s death at Shiloh, he put Hardee in charge of drilling the army and he thought him to be the only reliable corps commander he had. After the invasion of Kentucky failed, Hardee, who had been promoted to lieutenant general on October 10, stayed in Bragg’s newly renamed Army of Tennessee as commander of the II Corps, though he had some serious doubts about Bragg’s competence. Hardee, who had performed ably but seen his corps’ achievements in the Battle of Stones River go for naught under Bragg’s leadership, openly expressed his views to Bragg after the Tullahoma Campaign of late June, 1863, leading their relationship to become very strained. In July, Hardee was transferred to the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, under the command of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. He returned to the Army of Tennessee during the siege of Chattanooga, but even the splendid conduct of his corps, especially the men of Cleburne’s division, at Missionary Ridge could not prevent the army’s defeat. After Bragg left his army in December 1863, Hardee assumed temporary command of it, but declined an offer to remain in command. Hardee’s reputation had suffered from the feud with his former commander, who would continue to influence the events in the West as a military advisor to Davis. Hardee would never get a second chance for army command. After Bragg, his friend Johnston was appointed, and on the eve of the Battle of Atlanta, Davis would prefer the less experienced Gen. John B. Hood to Hardee. As Hardee asked to be relieved from service under Hood, Davis appealed to his patriotism and he stayed with the Army of Tennessee. When Hood blamed Hardee for losing the Battle of Bald Hill on July 27, five weeks before Atlanta’s fall, Hardee again asked for relief, but again Davis convinced him to stay. Finally, just after the Battle of Jonesborough, which sealed Atlanta’s fate, Hardee obtained a transfer from Hood’s command (not realizing that soon Johnston would replace Hood). He was assigned the Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, in which capacity he opposed Gen. William T. Sherman’s “March to the Sea” – though he could do little more than evacuate Savannah. During the last weeks of the war, he joined Johnston’s forces, fighting at Bentonville on March 19, 1865, and ultimately surrendering five weeks later at Durham Station, North Carolina. After the war, Hardee worked in the warehousing and insurance businesses, became president of the Selma and Meridian Railroad, and held a seat in Congress for a single term (1879-1881). He was buried at Selma, Alabama. (Bio by Joern Kaesebier)
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