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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 2 0 Browse Search
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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 37: the end. (search)
er, but at no moment was he reckless, or even imprudent in unnecessarily exposing himself to injury. The pressure upon Sidney Johnston was from no selfish thought or narrow feeling, but from the circumstances under which he had ordered the battle for to-morrow morning at daylight, and the disparity of his forces compared with those of the enemy. If with a thoroughly-trained army, under skillful leaders, devotedly attached to their chieftain, and accustomed to victory, the first Napoleon at Jena excused himself for taking personal risks, by saying, I must needs see how things are going, surely Albert Sidney Johnston at Shiloh will not be misinterpreted. Surely, there, he must needs see how things were going. No, no, he fell in the path of duty, thinking not of self. General Preston wrote : I felt at Shiloh, when your father fell, that our last hope of victory perished, and that his place would never be supplied. Major Haydon, in his Rough notes on Shiloh, says:
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 3: a cavalry officer of the army of the United States. (search)
aber, and slouched hat, upon whose looped — up side gay feathers danced. Or can we imagine him with the devil-may-care look and jaunty bearing generally ascribed as attributes of the rough rider ? We can not fancy him charging the French columns with the fury of a Ponsonby at Waterloo; or riding boot to boot with dashing Cardigan and his death or glory squadrons into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell at Balaklava; or side by side with fearless Murat and his twelve thousand cavalry at Jena; or as fast and furious as Stuart, or Sheridan, Forrest, or Custer. And yet it is safe to say, had the opportunity offered, this new cavalry officer would have been found equal to the emergency. The cavalry genius of Cromwell is readily admitted, in spite of the fact that he was forty-four years of age when he first drew his sword, and Lee was now forty-six. General Foy, in his history of the Peninsular War, writes: Apres les qualities necessaire[s]? au commandant en chef, le talent de guer
The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1863., [Electronic resource], For hire. (search)
This day. --There are certain days which seem to have been dedicated by Nature to great events. The battle of Cunersdorff and the battle of Waterloo both occurred on the 18th of June. Jerusalem was taken by Titus, Moscow by Napoleon, and Mexico by Scott, on the 14th September, and on the same day the Allies landed in the Crimes. Guy Fawkes was to have blown up the Parliament, William of Orange landed in England, the battle of Rosbach was gained by Frederic, and the battle of Inkerman by the Allies, all on the 5th November. This day, 57 years ago, the Prussian army sustained at Jena the most disastrous overthrow that modern history makes mention of, except that afterwards sustained by the French army at Waterloo. We are inclined to supernation upon this subject. We cannot resist the impression that our troops will fight a great battle and gain a great victory to-day.