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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Confederate career of General Albert Sidney Johnston. (search)
wling Green, under General S. B. Buckner. General Johnston has been censured for not having caused Bed. So long as this line was maintained, General Johnston's department was safe and could not be intrenuous effort and earnest solicitation, General Johnston succeeded in recruiting and bringing to trivers was commenced. The only reinforcement Johnston could obtain from his government was Floyd's onelson, the biographer says: To meet it, General Johnston sent a force, which he estimated moderate,000 men. Certain, it is, therefore, that General Johnston took himself the place of greater hazard,five thousand men more might have enabled General Johnston to have attempted an offensive campaign bhich two years more of war taught others, General Johnston already entertained. On the 6th of Feb fall of Donelson, cannot be given here. Colonel Johnston treats the subject ably and fully, and innergy, caused defeat. As a specimen of Colonel Johnston's descriptive powers, the following accou[3 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Editorial Paragraphs. (search)
uthern Generals in high command in front of me, and Johnston gave me more anxiety than any of the others; I was never half so anxious about Lee, has very naturally raised the question, When and where was General J. E. Johnston ever in Grant's front? That great commander, with a very inadequate force, was in Grant's rear, while he was besieging Vicksburg; but with the heavy fortifications which protected him, and in the light of his statement in the next paragraph, that he did not know that Johnston was coming until he read his book, it is difficult to see the cause of General Grant's anxiety. But the following is, perhaps, the most remarkable of all of the wild statements of this effort to manufacture history: I never ranked Lee as high as some others of the army, said the General, that is to say, I never had as much anxiety when he was in my front as when Joe Johnston was in front. Lee was a good man, a fair commander, who had everything in his favor. He was a man who needed