confederates will seize back the initiative only to have a fresh union force arrive from pittsburgh landing that mccook can throw in and now contending with fresh forces and the thing seesawed for two hours and beauregard illustrating the troops needed to be guided forward in person and not told to move forward, shows the state of the army. it is beginning to dissolve. question confronting beauregard and the confederates, are they going to be able to avoid catastrophe and things completely reversed and the euphoria and the seizing of the union camp meant on the first day and wired richmond the evening before that it had had been won and saddened by the loss of albert sydney johnson and achieved the great victory which is going to be reported across the south in newspapers for the next few days had really turned around and beauregard faced the catastrophe because if he continues to try to struggle to maintain position and advance he suffers the possibility that the combined forces will be able to cut him off and destroy him in detail. staff officer thomas jordan rides up and basically leans over in the