CSPAN3 The Civil War August 22, 2014
Day before, in which johnston himself reported to the confederate government that he had 55,000 men present for duty. I dont know what happened to those 12,000 men on the night of april 30thmay 1st. Mass desertion. Who knew. Maybe the radioactive atomic cloud got there and wiped out 12 thousand of his men. Or the question of casualties. Johnston had his medical director, johnston lost according to his medical director 9,972 men killed and wounded in his infantry and artillery in may and june. Historians have taken that up. And said johnston lost 9,972 men and they ignore those qualifications. ...