Billy1977
Sergeant
- Joined
- Mar 18, 2016
- Location
- Flippin, Arkansas (near Yellville)
Hello everybody, I have a two-part question about Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston:
1.) Does the fact that Gen. Johnston led very much from the front at the Battle of Shiloh, even personally leading charges and directing regiments (while he left what should have been his own duties to his deputy, the Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard) indicate that he (Johnston) was very much more comfortable commanding a regiment rather than a field army, to such a degree that it impaired his performance as the field army commander at Shiloh? In other words, was he in over his head as a field army commander, out of his depth so to speak?
If the answer to question # 1 is "no" then the following question can be disregarded. However if the answer to # 1 is "yes" then:
2.) If that is the case that he was in over his head as a field army commander, why then did the Confederacy seem to attach such great hopes to his potential leadership of the C.S. forces in the Western Theatre in the future had he not been killed relatively early in the war on 6 April of '62 at Shiloh and express such disappointment over potentially lost opportunities that they feel seemingly vanished with his death?
1.) Does the fact that Gen. Johnston led very much from the front at the Battle of Shiloh, even personally leading charges and directing regiments (while he left what should have been his own duties to his deputy, the Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard) indicate that he (Johnston) was very much more comfortable commanding a regiment rather than a field army, to such a degree that it impaired his performance as the field army commander at Shiloh? In other words, was he in over his head as a field army commander, out of his depth so to speak?
If the answer to question # 1 is "no" then the following question can be disregarded. However if the answer to # 1 is "yes" then:
2.) If that is the case that he was in over his head as a field army commander, why then did the Confederacy seem to attach such great hopes to his potential leadership of the C.S. forces in the Western Theatre in the future had he not been killed relatively early in the war on 6 April of '62 at Shiloh and express such disappointment over potentially lost opportunities that they feel seemingly vanished with his death?