Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea .. . Concentration had for some timepast been the favorite idea of Beauregard. If hisadvice had been taken in time, Donelson might notyet have fallen. Beauregard selected Corinth as themost desirable point for concentrating the scatteredforces of the Confederacy. Here the two greatrailroads which connect the Gulf of Mexico andthe Mississippi with the Atlantic Ocean form a junc-tion. It is the key of the railroad system of Missis-sippi. A Great Military Camp, Orders were issued to the commanders of all theoutly
Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea .. . Concentration had for some timepast been the favorite idea of Beauregard. If hisadvice had been taken in time, Donelson might notyet have fallen. Beauregard selected Corinth as themost desirable point for concentrating the scatteredforces of the Confederacy. Here the two greatrailroads which connect the Gulf of Mexico andthe Mississippi with the Atlantic Ocean form a junc-tion. It is the key of the railroad system of Missis-sippi. A Great Military Camp, Orders were issued to the commanders of all theoutlying positions, and Beauregard was soon joinedby Bragg from Pensacola, by Polk from Mississippi^Johnston also coming up withhis entire army from Murfrees-boro. Corinth therefore becamea great military camp, and in ad-dition to its other advantages itafforded complete protection toMemphis. In three weeks theConfederate streno^th had risersfrom eleven thousand to forty-five thousand men. This, how-Van Dorn and Price were knownto be coming up from Arkansas with other thirtythousand GENERAL B. BRAGG. ever, was not all. BATTLE OF 8IIIL0H. 211 Since the commencement of the war the Confed-erates never found themselves in circumstancesmore favorable for striking a bold and decisiveblow. After the junction with Johnston that generaltook the command, Beauregard being nominallysecond, but remaining really the soul of the move-ment. It had been the intention of Halleck, under whoseinstructions the entire movement on the part of theNationals was conducted, to intervene between John-ston and Beauregard. When, therefore, he heardthat Johnston had disappeared from Murfreesboro,and that his object was to join Beauregard at Corinth,he ordered Buell to hurry forward to the aid of Grantand counteract, as far as possible, the Confederateconcentration. Confederate Forces United. There had been unnecessary delay, which permittedthe Confederate orenerals to unite their strenorth; andnow the weath
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