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Tupelo (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
Chapter 23: Shiloh, 1862.-Corinth.
On February 4th General Beauregard arrived at Bowling Green and reported to his superior officer, General Albert Sidney Johnston.
On the 6th Fort Henry surrendered after a soldierly defence.
February IIth the evacuation of Bowling Green was begun and ended on the 13th, and General Beauregard left for Columbus, Ky.
On the 16th Fort Donelson fell.
The loss of Forts Henry and Donelson opened the river routes to Nashville and North Alabama, and thus turned the positions both at Bowling Green and Columbus, and subjected General Johnston to severe criticism.
The President was appealed to, to remove him; but his confidence in General Johnston remained unimpaired.
In a letter to the President, dated March 18, 1862, General Johnston himself writes: The test of merit in my profession, with the people, is success.
It is a hard rule, but I think it right.
In reply to the letter from which the above is an extract, the President wrote him
Shiloh, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
Chapter 23: Shiloh, 1862.-Corinth.
On February 4th General Beauregard arrived at Bowling Green and reported to his superior officer, General Albert Sidney Johnston.
On the 6th Fort Henry surrendered after a soldierly defence.
February IIth the evacuation of Bowling Green was begun and ended on the 13th, and General Beau Tenth Brigade, U. S. A.:
I doubt whether, on any battle-field during the war, any set of men ever formed under just such circumstances as the Sixth Ohio at Shiloh.
I shall never forget the scene.
More than half of our artillery was gone, our entire force driven into twelve or fifteen acres of ground, a thousand wagons and of the struggle: Night and Blucher had both come.
Mr. Davis, in reply to a letter from a friend, says: There was no need to say more than you have said about Shiloh, concerning which, notwithstanding his report, where little was said of Sidney Johnston except the fact that he was killed, Beauregard has but two sustained claim
Tennessee River (United States) (search for this): chapter 23
Jackson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
Hamburg, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
Bladen Springs (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
Corinth (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 23
Fort Donelson (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 23