. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . and, most of all, time to collect orcreate an army. Aiad then (I hold in spite of some dilettante criticism) it gavehim a formidable line, with Cuml^erland Gap and Columbus as the extremitiesand Bowling Green as the salient. The result more than answered his expectations. Buckners advance pro-duced the wildest consternation in the Federal lines. Even Sherman, wi-itingthirteen years later, speaks of a picket which biu-ned a bridge thuty miles fromLouis\ as a division. As late
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . and, most of all, time to collect orcreate an army. Aiad then (I hold in spite of some dilettante criticism) it gavehim a formidable line, with Cuml^erland Gap and Columbus as the extremitiesand Bowling Green as the salient. The result more than answered his expectations. Buckners advance pro-duced the wildest consternation in the Federal lines. Even Sherman, wi-itingthirteen years later, speaks of a picket which biu-ned a bridge thuty miles fromLouis\ as a division. As late as November 10th, ISGl, he said: * If John-ston chooses, he could march into Louis^ille any day. The effect of the move-ment was for a time to paralyze the Federal army and put it on the defensive. FOET ANDEESON, PADUCAH, IN APRIL, 1862. FEOM A LITHOGRAPH. ^^XS^-^ ^- .1- J. >Vj cull 1)1 1 \ IlKf*.- 1 AlMIlt I ROM I I ITIKH 1 M 11 On till lull an -mi tin (diUmUi itc foitiHi itu>ii8 iicttid b\ lieiunl Buckiiir ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON AT SHILOH. 545. General Joliustou had made the oppoituuity required by the South, if itmeant seriously to maintain its independence. He had secured time for prep-aration ; but it neglected the chance, and never recovered it. He at oncestrongly fortified Bowling Grreen, and used every measuie to stu* up and rallythe Kentuckians to his standard. He brought Hardee with fom* thousandmen from Arkansas, and kept his little force in such constant motion as toproduce the impression of a large army menacing an attack. Even beforeBuckner advanced, Greneral Johnston had sent to the Southern governors anappeal for arms and a call for fifty thousand men. Harris of Tennesseealone responded heartily, and the Government at Richmond seemed unableto reenforce him or to arm the troops he had. Many difficulties embarrassedit, and not half his men were armed that winter; while up to the middle ofNovember he received only three new regiments. General Johnston realize
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