The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-11
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SHILOH.
ii rAaT yyORn ABOUT gems. JOHN
sToM, REAURESaAEgEb AED TmE
BATTLE or SHILOH.
NEW ORLEANS, August IL, 1873.

whoever read your correspondents Vim
dex) article, published In your paper OF the
preceding Sunday, must see OF glance that
HI ot,tsteps this bounds Of the question at
4ss,,e between tis. What he wrote on the
zutrth instant Ia, therefore, no answer to our
communication Of July %. All we there
stated remains untouched, 1nrefuted.
Your readers know what that question was,
and. we presume, your correspondent has not
entirely forgotten Ii. The question ut issue
between us Was: Who concentrated and or
gauized the Confederate forces ut Corinth--
who planned the battie OF Shiloh.
MI. Davis believes Ii was Gen. Albert Sid
ney Johnston; and we-with oil due Difference
10 the weight of authority which should ever
centre lid the words Of the ex-President OF the
Cougsderaey--w Baid 1t was not Gen. A. s..
Johnston but Gen. q. r.. Beauregard And
We did more than make the assertion; we
proved IL; yea, proved 1t by undeniable evil
der,ee such as carried conviction we know, TO
all but partisan minds.
Now, what line Of argument has your cor
respondent used 10 invaiidate the correctness
Of the position we assllned2 InsteHd OIL con-
sidering the question under It's yeritable
aspect, and Of eonceding our unquestioned
right TO signalize an error-no matter from
what source Ii originates he again assaiis
and misconstrues our motives; qualities our
frank, but respectful, interference In the mat
ter. as D. complaint "alike inopportune IL
logical and unprovoked;" and, nothing
daunted by the Irresistible truth Of our con-
illusions, once more asserts, In the face of our
former letter, that "what is worse, the weight
III authority and of reason"--is clearly
against U.s.
How does your correspondent show that
our evidence Is not Gouclusive2 How does he
overthrow itq
by saying In OH article headed 'History
and Jefferson Davis Vindicated," In sub
stance. the following: l. That he has before
him t.The Life of Albert Sidney Johnston y
by his son, Col. VIM Preston Johnston, a
deeply interesting and instructive book,
which ought TO be reed by every Southerner.
and, we add, which, no doubt, will be. q That
Cen. Johnston com manded the Confederate
army which marched from Corinth to attack
April, 1862 and that, SO long as he held the
command, our army was victorious. g. That
Gen. Duke, In his Life Of Morgan" gives it
Dis his opinion that II the Confederate army
aaa ~ ies saoVes on S.lo egss VI ~
LIEU, asys eno TEat Ga .,t
was also OF that opinion. s.. SO was Gen.
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