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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Letter from General A. S. Johnston. (search)
I hoped that some might come armed. I cannot now conjecture how many will do so. The call was made to save time, and in the hope that by the time they were organized and somewhat instructed, the Confederate Government would be able to arm them. As at present informed, I think the best effort of the enemy will be made on this line, threatening perhaps at the same time the communications between Tennessee and Virginia, covered by Zollicoffer, and Columbus, from Cairo by the river, and Paducah by land, and may be a serious attack on one or the other, and for this their command of the Ohio and all the navigable waters of Kentucky, and better means of land transportation, give them great facilities of concentration. As my forces at neither this nor either of the other points threatened are more than sufficient to meet the force in front, I cannot weaken either until the object of the enemy is fully pronounced. You now know the efforts I anticipate from the enemy and the line