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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. 865 67 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 231 31 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 175 45 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 153 9 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 139 19 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 122 6 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 91 7 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 89 3 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 88 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 55 5 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps.. You can also browse the collection for Albert Sidney Johnston or search for Albert Sidney Johnston in all documents.

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An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 18: (search)
ttle of Shiloh, April sixth capture of guns General Albert Sidney Johnston killed the battle resumed at Daybreak the e order. After the disastrous affair of Fort Donelson, Johnston reformed his army, and remained some short time at Murfreng in some dozen houses, and having Shiloh for its name. Johnston gathered every man he could, and marched out to give batt, couriers looking pale and sad passed by, reporting that Johnston had been killed while personally leading an attack on a powerful battery. Major-General Albert Sidney Johnston was a Kentuckian, and about sixty years of age; tall, commanding, af the West. President Davis, in answer to those who said Johnston was too slow, remarked: If he is not a general, there is ong us! Such praise, from such a man, speaks volumes for Johnston's true merit. He was of Scotch descent, and very much besand men in line in the fight on Monday, and I know that Johnston could not muster twice that number when the fight opened
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 19: (search)
at Snickersville a general retreat is ordered by Johnston he retires to Culpeper Court House, and makes hividently intending to flank and get in the rear of Johnston by passing through the mountain gap at Snickersville. This, of course Johnston wisely foresaw, and during winter had been quietly transporting his immense storhis troops during the heaviest part of the winter, Johnston had granted thirty days furlough to all of the twerise and capture of Centreville and Manassas, when Johnston suddenly gave orders for a general retreat, and al it fills me with impartial admiration for Lee and Johnston, together with many talented subordinates. Each a both McClellan and Burnside believed that Lee and Johnston were there before them. The whole army, however, cooped up, to be destroyed at leisure. Lee and Johnston saw that our position was untenable, but determine; Magruder the right; Longstreet the centre; while Johnston was chief over all. Many episodes and incidents wo