... probably, not have divulged to any one but an intimate friend. It was perhaps indiscreet in me to have repeated the remark at all; but to give publicity to it, and that for a purpose unfriendly to General Johnston , would, in my view, be unjust both to General Johnston and to Mr. McFarland, as the latter is no longer alive to explain it, if necessary to maintain his statement. I will add that I have long k...