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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Recollections of General Beauregard's service in West Tennessee in the Spring of 1862. (search)
e of a dispatch addressed to General Johnston, that had been handed me on the battlefield, which encouraged the hope that the main part of Buell's forces had marched in the direction of Decatur. But further in proof that Prentiss could not have attempted any such device as that represented, I can add he publicly said to me that Buell's forces would effect a junction during the night, and that as a consequence our victory would be wrenched from us the next day. Sharing my tent with Colonel Jacob Thompson and myself, on the morning of the 7th April, when the firing began at the outposts, he remarked with satisfaction: Ah! what did I tell you, gentlemen? they are at it again. As for the utter absence of defensive works at Pittsburg landing, our information was complete, and no words of General Prentiss could bave shaken General Beauregard's convictions, even had he asked him any questions in that conversation, which I know he did not. General Beauregard did know, however, that