Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is to command on the Peninsula. The
President took an affectionate leave of him the other day; and Gen. Lee held
his hand a long time, and admonished him to take care of his life. There was no
necessity for him to endanger it — as had just been done by the brave Sydney
Johnston at Shiloh, whose fall is now universally lamented. This Gen. Johnston
(Joseph E.) I believe has the misfortune to be wounded in most of his battles.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the
Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 117
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