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Albert Sydney Johnson was widely regarded as the most gifted Confederate commander in the early years of the Civil War before his Virginia counterpart, Robert E. Lee, made his own mark on history. Let's suppose that he wasn't shot (likely by his own men by accident) at the Battle of Shiloh, and continues to command the western Confederate armies (with Nathan Bedford Forrest at his side) for the duration of the war while Lee commands the Army of Northern Virginia in the east. How differently would the war have turned out had Johnson survived?