The road was strewed with
their dead and wounded, guns, ammunition, and equipments. The number of
prisoners taken by the enemy, as shown by their list furnished, was one
hundred and six, all of whom have been returned by exchange. After
making a liberal allowance to the enemy, a hundred of their prisoners
still remain in my hands, one stand of colors, and a fraction over one
thousand stand of arms, with knapsacks, ammunition, and other military
stores. Our loss in killed, wounded, and missing, was six hundred and
forty one; that of the enemy was probably not less than twelve hundred."
Meanwhile, Albert Sidney Johnston, a soldier of great distinction in the
United States Army, where he had attained the rank of brigadier-general
by brevet, and was in command of the Department of California, resigned
his commission, and came overland from San Francisco to Richmond, to
tender his services to the Confederate States. Though he had been bred a
soldier, and most of his life had been spent in the army, he had not
neglected such study of political affairs as properly belongs to the
citizen of a republic, and appreciated the issue made between States
claiming the right to resume the powers they had delegated to a general
agent and the claims set up by that agent to coerce States, his
creators, and for whom he held a trust.
He was a native of Kentucky, but his first military appointment was from
Louisiana, and he was a volunteer in the war for independence by Texas,
and for a time resided in that State.
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