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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. 68 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 52 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1862., [Electronic resource] 34 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 34 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 30 0 Browse Search
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 30 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 28 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 24 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 22 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 22 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Reinforcement of Donelson impossible. (search)
The Reinforcement of Donelson impossible. --A correspondent of the N. O. Picayune. writing from Murfreesboro', Tenn., makes the subjoined statement; On Thursday, February 13, the first day of the fight at Donelson, our forces at Bowling Green were on their way to Nashville by the turnpike road through Franklin, Ky. On Saturday, 6th they all had come up at Nashville, thus rendering it utterly impossible to have sent reinforcements, and which, if it could have been done, would only have been subject to capture. It is thus clearly evident that the retreat from Bowling Green was compulsory in order to save our army, and that the means of further reinforcing Donelson was to tally impracticable, while Nashville, being untenable, we were obliged to fall back upon this point. It is plain to all military men that no other course could have been pursued, and that the assurance should prove perfectly satisfactory to our people, however humiliating and disastrous the results may ha