Life of General Albert Sydney Johnston, embracing his services in the armies of the United States, the republic of Texas, and the Confederate States . om an army of double itsnumbers, and largely made up of fresh troops. It no longer foughtwith the enthusiasm of the day previous, when the stake seemed empire;but it had been sifted of all who were physically or morally incapableof enduring the sternest ordeals. Its charges were made with a des-perate fury from which the strongest columns recoiled. A broken bandof heroic spirits, united by no tie but their common cause, would gatheritself for an
Life of General Albert Sydney Johnston, embracing his services in the armies of the United States, the republic of Texas, and the Confederate States . om an army of double itsnumbers, and largely made up of fresh troops. It no longer foughtwith the enthusiasm of the day previous, when the stake seemed empire;but it had been sifted of all who were physically or morally incapableof enduring the sternest ordeals. Its charges were made with a des-perate fury from which the strongest columns recoiled. A broken bandof heroic spirits, united by no tie but their common cause, would gatheritself for an assault, which looked impossible of achievement and fruit-less of results. As it waited the signal, looking to the right or left forsuccor that would not come, it might shiver a little at the bloody jawsof death that yawned to receive it, but it did not quail. The word \would be given, and some martial spirit—general, colonel, or daring jsubordinate impatient for glory—would seize the riddled flag, and rushwith reckless valor against the foe. The rebel yell—that penetrat-ing scream of menace and resolve—went up, and the line would hurl. 6) G • iH c OS Si CO 0< UNAVAILING HEROISM. (545 itself headlong, sometimes to success, sometimes to meet a storm of leadand iron, which strewed the field with the wounded and the dead. Andthis went on all the morning, until noon, until one, two oclock. .This picture is not a fancy sketch. Patton Anderson says : When one of General Cheathams regiments had been appealed to in vain tomake a charge on the advancing foe, Lieutenant Sandidge, seizing its colors andholding them high overhead, calling upon the regiment to follow him, spurredhis horse to the front, and charged over the brow of the hill amid a shower ofleaden hail from the enemy. The effect was electrical. The regiment movedgallantly to the support of its colors, but superior numbers soon pressed it backto its original position. Colonel Stanley, of the Ninth Texas, did the
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