Page "Albert Sidney Johnston" Paragraph 13

After this Confederate defeat at the Battle of Mill Springs, Davis sent Johnston a brigade and a few other scattered reinforcements, and he sent Gen. P. G. T.

Beauregard, who was supposed to attract recruits because of his victories early in the war and give Johnston a competent subordinate.

The brigade, however, came with the incompetent Brig.

Gen. John B. Floyd, who was to take command at Fort Donelson as the senior general present just before Brig.

Gen. Grant attacked the fort.

Beauregard's move to the west contributed to the movement of the Union commanders into action against the forts so they could act before, in their view, Beauregard could make a difference in the theater.

They had heard that he was bringing 15 regiments with him, but this actually was not true.