Life of General Albert Sydney Johnston, embracing his services in the armies of the United States, the republic of Texas, and the Confederate States . nth. Here it lay motionless until the battle of Shiloh. The Federal army was at Shiloh, near Pittsburg Landing, in a posi-tion naturally very strong. Its selection has been censured for rashness,on the erroneous presumption that the army there was outnumbered,inferior in discipline to its opponents, and peculiarly exposed to criticism is unjust, because the supposition is altogether untrue. Itcannot be denied that General Grant report
Life of General Albert Sydney Johnston, embracing his services in the armies of the United States, the republic of Texas, and the Confederate States . nth. Here it lay motionless until the battle of Shiloh. The Federal army was at Shiloh, near Pittsburg Landing, in a posi-tion naturally very strong. Its selection has been censured for rashness,on the erroneous presumption that the army there was outnumbered,inferior in discipline to its opponents, and peculiarly exposed to criticism is unjust, because the supposition is altogether untrue. Itcannot be denied that General Grant reported the Confederate army atCorinth, at 60,000—80,000—100,000, and as rumored to be 200,000strong; but we are not to suppose that his sagacity was so much atfault as to be misled by these old womens stories, as Sherman callsthem, especially when Buell was conveying to Halleck pretty accurateinformation of the numbers there. Grant felt safe at Shiloh, because he knew he was numericallystronger than his adversary. His numbers and his equipment weresuperior to those of his antagonist, and the discipline and morale of TOPOGRAPHY AROUND SHILOII. m. his army ought to have been so. The only infantry of the Confederatearmy which had ever seen a combat were some of Polks men, who wereat Belmont; Hindmans brigade, which was in the skirmish at Wood-son ville ; and the fugitives of Mill Spring. In the Federal army werethe soldiers who had fought at Belmont, Fort Henry, and Donelson— 530 PITTSBURG LANDING. 30,000 of the last. There were many raw troops on both sides. Someof the Confederates received their arms for the first time that week. Unless these things were so, and unless Grants army was, in wholeor in part, an army of invasion, intended for the offensive, of course itwas out of place on that south bank. But Sherman has distinctly as-serted that it was in prosecution of an offensive movement, and hencethis occupation of the south bank was a necessary preliminary to theadvance pro
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