Fresh supplies of ammunition and food were brought up, and it became obvious to Dick that the daring commander meant to attack Donelson, even should its garrison outnumber his own besieging force.
Along a long line from Western Tennessee to Eastern Kentucky there was a mighty stir.

Johnston had perceived the energy and courage of his opponent.

He had shared the deep disappointment of all the Southern leaders when Kentucky failed to secede, but instead furnished so many thousands of fine troops to the Union army.
Johnston, too, had noticed with alarm the tremendous outpouring of rugged men from the states beyond the Ohio and from the far northwest.
The lumbermen who came down in scores of thousands from Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, were a stalwart crowd.

War, save for the bullets and shell, offered to them no hardships to which they were not used.

They had often worked for days at a time up to their waists in icy water.