Confederate echoes: a voice from the South in the days of secession and of the Southern Confederacy . the Lordwilled it thus, it was best, but the divineordering is not always comprehended by ourdull understanding. We buried all hope of aConfederacy when we ceased to fight for it, 138 CONFEDERATE ECHOES. knowing full well that our opportunity forits establishment was forever lost, but wedid not believe that we had bettered our con-dition when we turned over our guns to theLincoln government; and what has trans-pired since that gloomy day to induce us toundergo a change of mind on that subject?
Confederate echoes: a voice from the South in the days of secession and of the Southern Confederacy . the Lordwilled it thus, it was best, but the divineordering is not always comprehended by ourdull understanding. We buried all hope of aConfederacy when we ceased to fight for it, 138 CONFEDERATE ECHOES. knowing full well that our opportunity forits establishment was forever lost, but wedid not believe that we had bettered our con-dition when we turned over our guns to theLincoln government; and what has trans-pired since that gloomy day to induce us toundergo a change of mind on that subject?As to the effect that slavery would ulti-mately have had in weakening the SouthernConfederacy need not enter into our con-templations, inasmuch as ours was a land ofstatesmen, as well as of soldiers, fiiUy capa-ble, in the course of time, of solving thatquestion, perhaps by the gradual emancipa-tion of the slaves by the government, andpaying their owners for them. But we ac-cept the situation, and are Vvilling that by-gones shall be bygones, if only the Radicalsof the ^North will let it be squad NUMBEK one, at MEMPHIS REUNION, 1901. John W. Crunk. William H. Farmer. H. Clay T. Goodloe. John M. Martin. CHAPTER YIIL Gen. Joseph E. Johnston—Hood—-Davis—Speech-es and Soldiers —Griersons Raid, Etc. WE confidently believed that the death ofGen. Albert Sydney Johnston on thefield of vShiloh was one of the few potent fac-tors in the loss of our independence as a na-tion, but we regarded the removal of E. Johnston from the command ofthe department and army of Tennessee, andthe appointment of Hood as his successor, asthe prime cause of our overthrow. We weresure that if he had been left in commandx\be Lincoln would have soon called off hiswar dogs. And it was understood amongthe soldiers that President Davis was re-sponsible for his removal. We also believedthat he knew perfectly well, and sanctioned,the campaign upon which Hood entered whenhe came in
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