His army was rising to forty thousand men, and officers like Colonel Winchester began to feel apprehensive.
Now came a period of waiting.

The Northern leaders, as happened so often in this war, were uncertain of their authority, and were at cross-purposes.

They seldom had the power of initiative that was permitted to the Southern generals, and of which they made such good use.

Dick saw that the impression made by Donelson was fading.

The North was reaping no harvest, and the South was lifting up its head again.
While he was in Nashville he received a letter from his mother in reply to one of his that he had written to her just after Donelson.