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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 14: (search)
he enemy. odds of the second day's battle. the enemy does not attempt a pursuit. a frightful sum of carnage. Beauregard's claim of success. Federal interpretation of the battle. exultation at Washington. death of Johnston, a serious loss to the Confederacy. sketch of his military life. President Davis' tribute to the fallen hero. his obsequies in New Orleans Since falling back to Murfreesboroa, Gen. Johnston had managed, by combining Crittenden's division and the fugitives from Donelson, to collect an army of seventeen thousand men. His object was now to co-operate with Gen. Beauregard for the defence of the Valley of the Mississippi, on a line of operations south of Nashville. The line extending from Columbus, by way of Forts Henry and Donelson, had been lost. The disaster had involved the surrender of Kentucky, and a large portion of Tennessee to the enemy; and it had become necessary to re-organize a new line of defence south of Nashville, the object of which would b