Ohio Quaker Bushrod Johnson's Confederate military career was uneven and contradictory

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"The scene now presented was unspeakably grand. The resolute and impetuous charge...sweeping out of the shadow and gloom of the forest into the open fields flooded with sunlight, the glitter of arms, the onward dash of artillery and mounted men, the retreat of the foe, the shouts of the hosts of our army, the dust, the smoke, the noise of fire-arms-of whistling balls and grape-shot and of bursting shell-made up a battle scene of unsurpassed grandeur. Here, General Hood gave me the last order I received from him on the field, 'Go ahead, and keep ahead of everything.'"