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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. 1,542 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 328 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 122 0 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 63 1 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 60 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 60 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) 50 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 38 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 36 0 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 36 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. (search)
newspaper vindication, because he was conscious that he had taken the only course to save his little army. If there was censure deserved, the people wold find out in the future where it should rest. Thus the great, magnanimous, and chivalrous Johnston bared his head to the storm of anathema and denunciation without a murmur of complaint, or any attempt to shield himself from its fury. Under these feelings, then, and under these circumstances, when on the battle field of Shiloh he was as calmful scenes of war." When he saw our lines waver, knowing that it was the critical moment when victory or defeat must follow, then it was he dashed forward, rallied his soldiers, and lad them in a glorious charge, upon which victory followed, but Johnston fell, Had this success but been followed up, our victory would have been perfect, the enemy's defeat crashing. Thus Gen. Sidney Johnston did not sacrifice himself, as has been unjustly said, to recover from the cloud under which it was supp