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General Johnston had made the opportunity 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 Green , and used every measure to stir up and rallythe Kentuckians to his standard. He brought Hardee with four 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, General Johnston had sent to the Southern governors anappeal for arms and a call for fifty thousand men. Harris of Tennessee alone 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 realizedthe magnitude of the struggle, hut the people of the South only awoke to itwhen it was too late. Calamity then stirred them to an ineffectual resist-ance, the heroism of which removed the reproach of their early vaingloryand apathy. General Johnston never was able to assemble more than 22,000men at Bowling Green , to confront the 100,000 troops opposed to him onthat line.
The only battle of note that occurred that fall was at Belmont, oppositeColumbus , in which Polk scored a victory over Grant. General Johnstonwrote as follows to the Secretary of War, on Christmas Day, from BowlingGreen : “ The position of General Zollicoffer on the Cumberland holds incheck the meditated invasion and hoped-for revolt in East Tennessee ; but Ican neither order Zollicoffer to join me here nor withdraw any more forcefrom Columbus without imperiling our communications toward Richmond