[Kenny Bunk]

I always thought that Johnston was not appreciated by Jeff Davis because of his unpopular-at-HQ Fabian tactics ... which given what he had to work with and facing the odds ... were probably the best way to go against the Yankees.

Turning it all over to the aggressive (impetuous?) Hood ... who was not at his best ... just about finished the Confederacy in the West.

[Pelham]

You’re thinking of the wrong Johnston, KB- the Fabian tactic Johnston was Joseph E Johnston.

In contrast Albert Sydney Johnston was regarded by Jeff Davis as his finest general. In fact Davis said that Johnston’s death at Shiloh was the turning point of the war.

Albert Johnston had a career as a Texas Republic general, a US Army general, and a Confederate general. He was the first commander of the famed US Second Cavalry that fought the Comanche. One of his field officers was Robert E Lee, who followed Johnston as commander of that unit. Albert Johnston was much like Lee and had he survived to command the western armies the Union armies in the west would have had a much harder fight.