for more explicit information in regard to it, and received the following statement:
Colonel: I give to you, according to your request, with great pleasure the following statement of facts, which occurred during the month of January, 1862, when at the headquarters of
General Albert Sidney Johnston, in the town of
Bowling Green,
Kentucky, and in the presence of then
Colonel (now General)
John S. Bowen, commanding the forts and the town of
Bowling Green, of which former my regiment garrisoned “Fort Buckner,” a strong position on the extreme left of the fortifications.
The engineers, who had been ordered by
General A. S. Johnston to survey the course of the
Tennessee River as far as
Florence, Alabama, where its navigation is impeded, had completed their labors and submitted a fine military map to the general commanding.
In front of this map, the general and
Colonel Bowen were standing, the former giving evidently an explanation of its military positions.
In the course of their conversation,
General Johnston directed
Colonel Bowen's attention to a position upon this map, which had been marked
