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THE CAMPAIGN OF SHILOHJ
BY G. T. BEAUREGARD, GENERAL, <’. S. A.
O N the 22d of January, 1862, Colonel Roger A. Pryor , a member of the Mili-tary Committee of the lower branch of the Confederate Congress, visitedmy headquarters at Centreville, Virginia , and in his own name, as also for therepresentatives in Congress of the Mississippi Valley States, urged me toconsent to be transferred from the Ai’my of the Potomac to the commandof the Confederate forces at Columbus, Kentucky , within the Department ofKentucky and Tennessee, under the superior command of General AlbertSidney Johnston, — a transfer which he said Mr. Davis would not directunless it was agreeable to me, but which was generally desired at Richmond because of the recent crushing disaster at Mill Springs, in eastern Kentucky :the defeat and death of Zollicoffer. Against the monitions of some of myfriends at Richmond , and after much hesitation and disinclination to severmy relations with such an army as that of the Potomac, but upon theassurance that General Johnston ’s command embraced an aggregate of atleast seventy thousand men of all arms, which, though widely scattered,might, by virtue of the possession of the “ interior lines,” be concentrated andoperated offensively, I gave Colonel Pryor authority to inform Mr. Davis ofmy readiness to be thus transferred. Upon the return of Colonel Pryor toRichmond , I was, on the 26th of January, ordered to proceed at once “toreport to General A. S. Johnston at Bowling Green, Kentucky, ” and thence
) Recast and revised from the “North American Review” for January and February, 1886.— Editors.