...ure, is, sir, a pleasure. Albert Sidney Johnston was my friend-and who that ever knew him is there that was not his friend? We were fellow-soldiers, too; I served under him in the old Republic of Texas twenty-five years ago; a quarter of a century afterward I fought under his command on the great battle-field of Shiloh-his last battle-field, where he sealed his devotion to the cause with his life's...