The catastrophe, a single shot at the Battle of Shiloh shattered the hopes of a new nation.(LOOKING BACK)

Mississippi Magazine | March 1, 2006| | Copyright

On Sunday afternoon, April 6, 1862, the worst possible thing for Mississippi and indeed the entire Confederacy that could happen did happen ... the general was dead.

General Albert Sidney Johnston, the second-highest-ranking general in the army of the Confederate States of America, just behind C.S.A. Adjutant and Inspector General Samuel Cooper and just ahead of General Robert E. Lee, was killed on the field of battle. At the time hostilities began in 1861, no man--North or South--was looked upon as a better general than was Sidney Johnston, a Mexican War hero and ...

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