Life of General Albert Sydney Johnston, embracing his services in the armies of the United States, the republic of Texas, and the Confederate States . , under Hardee; Columbus, Kentucky, under Polk; and Pen-sacola, Mobile, and New Orleans, under Bragg; with such new levies as could;he hastily raised, all badly armed and equipped, were united at and near Corinth,iand for the first time organized as an army. It was an heterogeneous mass, injjwhich there was more enthusiasm than discipline, more capacity than knowl-edge, and more valor than instruction. Eifles, rifled and smooth-bore muskets—some
Life of General Albert Sydney Johnston, embracing his services in the armies of the United States, the republic of Texas, and the Confederate States . , under Hardee; Columbus, Kentucky, under Polk; and Pen-sacola, Mobile, and New Orleans, under Bragg; with such new levies as could;he hastily raised, all badly armed and equipped, were united at and near Corinth,iand for the first time organized as an army. It was an heterogeneous mass, injjwhich there was more enthusiasm than discipline, more capacity than knowl-edge, and more valor than instruction. Eifles, rifled and smooth-bore muskets—some of them originally percussion, others hastily altered from flint-locks byjYankee contractors, many still with the old flint and steel—and shot-guns of allsizes and patterns, held place in the same regiments. The task of organizingsuch a command in four weeks, and supplying it, especially with ammunitionsuitable for action, was simply appalling. It was undertaken, however, with a 1 He so stated to me at Corinth, when, as chief of staff, I advised and he ordered thetroops from the Trans-Mississippi to that place, before the battle of JOHNSTONS OFFER TO BEAUREGARD. 549 cool, quiet self-control, by calling to his aid the best knowledge and talent at hiscommand, which not only inspired confidence, but soon yielded the naturalfruits of system, order, and discipline. This force, about 40,000 of all arms, was divided into four corps, commandedrespectively by Major-Generals Polk, Bragg, and Hardee, and Brigadier-GeneralBreckinridge, General Albert Sidney Johnston in chief command; and GeneralBeauregard, who, having recently come out from the army in Virginia, andbeing in feeble health, was assigned no special command, but was designatedin orders as second in command, and as such aided the commander-in-chiefwith his counsel and advice. The difficulties mentioned by General Bragg of arming the troopswere increased by the process of exchange in many instances for new-weapons,
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