| Show Same Birthday Same attic I riy y Q ut Different fame Fre j jr I r I r J Ck C. C k i I j ul jul 1 H Ge GenA 7 er Johnston y hE E. E Johnston By ELMO EtMO SCOTT WATSON 3 Is tho the ann anniversary anni of the birthday f of ot two American soldiers whose careers afford some striking similarities similarities ties and some equally striking lher bore the same family name yet were ere not reva re re- va e mated They he were i graduated grad grad- graduated rad- rad from the time same military school both achieved distinction distinction tion as Indian fighters ho both h attained high ranI ranks In both lOth the United States ann army and the Confederate erate army yet et one rose to the hei heights as a military Jea leader er only to be cheated of of his reward reward reward re re- re- re ward by death while the other lived to see his fame as a soldier end in something of an anti The two two were Albert Alhert Sidney Johnston and Joseph 1 Eggleston Johnston Albert Sidney Johnston was born horn I on February 3 1803 in Washington Ky Ivy the son of a Connecticut country physician and was graduated from the United States Military academy ei eighth in his llis class In 1826 He lIe was assigned to the Second infantry and served as is' is chief of staff to Gen Henry Atkinson In the Black Hawk war in 1832 1532 Resigning Re Re- signing from the army In 1839 1834 he be was a farmer for a short time near St. St Louis then in 1830 Joined the Texas patriots in their struggle for or freedom Although entering the Te an army as asa a private he rapidly rose through h hall all the grades to the command of the army and In 1888 1818 President Mirabeau Lamar of the tile Lone Star republic made him secretary of war The next year jear ear he lie led a campaign against ag hostile In III In and In two brilliant battles de de- defeated de- de fated them and drove rove them out of ot Texas lexas Next t we find him him a planter In Texas but at t the outbreak of the M Mexican Mex Mex- x- x ican war he hc was In the field again as colonel of the time First Texas rifles rilles This regiment soon disbanded but Johnston Johns Johns- ton continued In the service and was inspector general of Butlers Butler's division at the battle of Monterey Although Gen Zachar Zachary Taylor called him hIni the hest best soldier soller he ever er commanded and his llis superiors recommended him for an appointment as general brigadier general he was passed over for political reasons and again retired to his farm There he lived JIved In and poverty neg lect until President la Taylor lor In 10 1840 suddenly appointed him a paymaster In the United States army and six t years ears later President Pierce appointed him film colonel of oC a new regiment the Second cavalry In 1837 1857 he lie was placed in command com corn mand of the time expedition exp to restore order or or- der among the Mormons In Utah who were In open revolt against the gov gov- government By y a u forced march of H O miles mites in 27 days he reached his little army of ot 1100 men to find tind them therm lost amid amici the time snow-filled snow defiles of or the with the temperature at 10 below zero their supplies supplies' cut off oIT by the hostile Mormons and their ing teams their only food B By Dy y an ex ex- extraordinary display of ot energy und and wis vis dorn dom Johnston led the army safely In to winter quarters and by using equally equal equal- I ly commendable diplomacy he lie put nn au I end to the rebellion without u drop of blood he being l shed For 01 this exploit lie was general brigadier adler adler- rind a n short time later inter III placed aced In command com coat mun mand of the department of the Pa Pa- Loyal to the urmy and mud the nation nution the corning of ot the tho war brought t the deepest distress to Johnston But t when Texas seceded he resigned his y hut commissIon commission hut he Jw regarded his com corn command command mand as such a sacred trust that lm he e conc concealed led his resignation until li he e could coul be relieved and relieved and went vent at ut oneto once one e to Richmond where In September r he lie was placed in command o of ot t 1 I- I x I. I f I S Sk k v vall all l the Confederate forces In the time West The fall of Fort lIen Henry I and Fort Port Donelson to the Union forties forces under Foote and Grant followed and the new lew leader fell back to boro horn where he began reorganizing his ids troops Then he lie moved to 10 Corinth Miss the lee key of the defense of the railroad system In the lower MississippI sippi valley vallejO where by bj Aril April 1 1862 he had about men poorly armed and badly supplied Grant commanding command- command commande ing the right wing of the Union film army was concentrating at t PIttsburg LandIng Land Land- Lands ing on the Tennessee rawer with some men Dlen and Buell nuell was rapidly approaching ap- ap preaching with more With a n Napoleonic flash of genius Johnston decided to beat heat the enemy In detail and to attack Grant before Buell could arrive On April 3 he started on ou his 25 5 mile march to Pittsburgh Landing buthe buthe but he was delayed by had bad roads an and l dd did not arrive until the At a council of war General Beauregard his second second sec see ond and In command protested against an attack and advised a return to Corinth Johnston overruled him and on Sunday morning April G 6 he led lee his array army to the attack It was a complete complete complete com com- surprise for COl Grant was not even eyen on the field The struggle lasted all day and was proceeding successfully Just as Johnston Johnston Johns Johns- ton had planned The Union army was being crowded Into nn an angle between Snake creek and the Tenessee river rind and was facing annihilation About JO 2 0 o'clock In the afternoon Johnston Johnston Johns Johns- ton while leading a charge which crushed the left wing of Grants Grant's forces fell with a mortal wound Beauregard Beauregard Beau Beau- regard regald with enough h daylight left to complete the vIctor victory vacillated and ordered the attack to cease That night Buells Buell's army came up ane and the next nest day the Confederates were driven from the field Held Had the bullet hullet which struck down Albert Sidney Johnston reached readied another target huget the history of the Civil war might have been vastly vastly vastly vast vast- ly different I Unlike Albert Sidney Johnston who was a Southerner of ot Northern ancestry an un- Joseph gg Eggleston Johnston was as a Southerner of the Southerners lie He was born hurn In Cherry Cheiry Grove Va a on February 3 1807 1507 the tho scion of a Virginia Virginia Virinia Vir Vir- ginia inia family which had been In this country for tor nearly OO years lIe He was graduated from West Vest Point in 18 in inthe inthe the same class that lint gave Robert E. E Lee to the army and commissioned u a second lieutenant in the Fourth ar nr- tillery With the exception of ot service in the Black Hawk war In 1832 1812 most of his first fIlst six years ears In the army was spent in garrison dut duty at various posts along tile the Atlantic seaboard But In 1830 1836 he lie became aide dc dc carnI to Gen Winfield Scott cott In the war with 1 the thc Seminole Indians In 1 Florida rind and 1 won t a u brevet hrc as captain for gallantry In action when troops under his corn com fell III into to an ambuscade from which Johnston extricated them skill skill- fully On this occasion his ills uniform was perforated with no less than 30 bullets bullets bul- bul lets I In 18 1 18 12 43 he ho was n again ain in Florida serving against the time In the war with Mexico he lie was at the sieve siege of Vera Cruz and in the battles of or Cerro Gordo Contreras del Key Hey and the attack on the City of Mexico He lIe was se severely se wounded at al Cerro Gordo 0 and again at Chapultepec where he hewus was the first to plant regimental colors s on the ramparts of or the fortress For ir his gallantry at Cerro Gordo he lie was lieutenant colonel and anel colonel colo cobo nel and during the next lifted fifteen n years ears performed various duties Inthe in inthe I Inthe the West Including that lint of acting g Inspector general for the Utah i- i tion commanded by the other Johnston Johns Johns- ton ton Albert Albert SIdne Sidney which led letl finally final Y to his commission of ot quartermaster general of the United States army Johnston resigned from the army w when Virginia seceded was commissioned commissioned commis si a major major- major general of volunteers volunteer s b by Virginia and with Robert Hobert E E. Le Lee o organized time tile soldiers who poured into into into in in- t to Richmond to defend the capital of ot t the state Next he was appointed c commander of the time army of the Shenandoah Shenandoah Shen- Shen a and led it to the aid of Gen General General e eral Beauregard when McDowell attacked attacked at at- t tacked ed on Tul July 21 1 1861 at Manas- Manas s sas Johnston outranked Beauregard a and took command so that he is credited credited cred cred- II ftc with tl victory at Bull BuH Run 1 The next nest month he was us appointed one o of the five full generals authorized b h by the Confederate congress amon among tl them Albert Sidney Johnston hut but v was placed fourth on the list Johnston Johnston Johnston Johns Johns- ton protested against this since he f felt that his high rank In the United s States army when he resl resigned ned should have placed him first on the list and anti andIn andIn antido In do this he was justified b by a ious previous congressional act This protest is said to have been the beginning and cause of the time hostility towards him shown by hy President Jefferson Davis throughout the war The quarrel between the time two men men according to Allen Tate in his recent blo biography of Davis was to outlast the Confederacy and aud have havea a n pa-al pa paralyzing Influence upon Its career After the Battle of Seven Pines In at which Johnston was serious seriously wounded rounded Davis replaced him In command command com com- mand of the Confederate forces in do the time East Eust with Gen Robert E. E Lee anti and the eclipse of Joseph E E. E Johnston as an outstanding militar military leader lender hegan began The next nest year rear he be was sent to take of ot the Department of the We West t. t Johnston was one of the three or four best hest soldiers in the South writes Tate But he tended to avoId ok assuming responsibility he was touch touchy and quarrelsome fJ and his in instinctive instinctive instinctive in- in dislike of offensive warfare had Inconsistently enough undermined undermined under under- mined the Pi Presidents President's evident confidence in I him rini since his retreat up lip the peninsula before McClellan in the spring Inthe In Ir I Ithe the end Davis' Davis lack Inck of confidence ma may I have been sheer heer dislike Johnston ha hanot hadnot had hadnot not handled him in his hale rancorous letters let terse with kid gloves So when Johnston Johns Johns' Johnston ton went west vest his Instructions were i n a little vague ague Both Loth Davis and Johnston have ha their ardent partisans in the time historic dispute dis- dis between the two and It seems I II j I Impossible to arrive at mat any conclusion as to who was vas most to blame But nut I the time n net t result was disaster In the time West Vest which further weakened the time Lost Cuu Cause e and v contributed Its share to the downfall of the Confederacy Con Con- I It fell feU to his Ills lot to play a leadin leading role In the last military scene of the great reat tragedy which befell the time American people between and n. n Just as lie he had halt been In command at the e first major engagement el of the war so was he in In command when the thelast I I last Jast Important armed forces of ot the fhe Confederacy laid down their arms On April 26 20 1805 1865 Johnston surrendered his army to General Sherman on the same terms lenns te ms under which while k Lee Jee had surrendered surrendered sur sur- rendered to Grant Grunt After the time war was president ices dent of a railroad In Arkansas president dent of an express company of oC Vir Virginia ginia and agent for various Insurance companies In 8 he was elected to con congress ress from Virginia and ten years I later he lie was appointee appointed United d States tates I commissioner of railroads Ii by r I f dent Cleveland Cle lie He died In 1801 Q by Western Newspaper Union I j f 1 P |
