. Battles of the nineteenth century . 92. MAJOR-GENERAL ROBERT PAT-TERSON, sixty-nine years old, ripewith experience gained in at leasttwo wars, but burdened it may bewith more of the indecision and fears of old agethan is the usual lot of man—seeing before him,in fact, bogev numbers of enemies—marched hisarmy one day this way and the next day that ;and frittering away the time, at length, insteadof fighting, he allowed General Johnston Confederate soldiers to slip quietly awayfrom him. The result was the result to be ex-pected. General Johnston by a rapid marchreached General Beaureg
. Battles of the nineteenth century . 92. MAJOR-GENERAL ROBERT PAT-TERSON, sixty-nine years old, ripewith experience gained in at leasttwo wars, but burdened it may bewith more of the indecision and fears of old agethan is the usual lot of man—seeing before him,in fact, bogev numbers of enemies—marched hisarmy one day this way and the next day that ;and frittering away the time, at length, insteadof fighting, he allowed General Johnston Confederate soldiers to slip quietly awayfrom him. The result was the result to be ex-pected. General Johnston by a rapid marchreached General Beauregards lines in time toturn the tide of battle m favour of the South,and the first decisive struggle of the AmericanCivil War was scored to the credit of theConfederates. Four oclock on the morning of April 12th,1861, the Civil War began. At that hour ashell fired from a battery on shore struck FortSumter, a tiny fort built on a mudbank in thever). centre of Charleston harbour ; and thisshot opened hostilities that were destined to las
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