Every man capable of bearing arms at the South was declared to be a soldier, and forced to act as such.

All their armies were greatly reenforced, and the most despotic power was granted to enforce discipline and supplies.

Beauregard was replaced by Bragg, a man of more ability--of greater powers of organization, of action, and discipline--but naturally exacting and severe, and not possessing the qualities to attract the love of his officers and men.

He had a hard task to bring into order and discipline that mass of men to whose command he succeeded at Tupelo, with which he afterward fairly outmanoeuvred General Buell, and forced him back from Chattanooga to Louisville.

It was a fatal mistake, however, that halted General Halleck at Corinth, and led him to disperse and scatter the best materials for a fighting army that, up to that date, had been assembled in the West.
During the latter part of June and first half of July, I had my own and Hurlbut's divisions about Grand Junction, Lagrange, Moscow, and Lafayette, building railroad-trestles and bridges, fighting off cavalry detachments coming from the south, and waging an everlasting quarrel with planters about their negroes and fences -- they trying, in the midst of moving armies, to raise a crop of corn.