Rohina sid biography of albert

The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnstonand the Civil War in the West. By Timothy B.

Smith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023.

Rohina sid biography of albert

Hardcover, 248 pp. $39.95

Reviewed by Sean Michael Chick

Albert Sidney Johnston is, for many, one of the great enigmas of the Civil War. The Confederacy’s highest ranking field general, he entered the war with a great reputation earned through his exceptional antebellum service, commanding presence, and noble character.

His Civil War career was brief but important. He was in charge in the Western Theater when the defeats at Mill Springs, Fort Henry, and Fort Donelson split open the Confederacy. He died at Shiloh trying to reverse those losses, even before the first anniversary of Fort Sumter.

Through the years since his death a question has always hovered: had he lived, how would he have turned out?

Johnston’s shadow loomed all the mo