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Show a UMots toMimiuTi: w ini. TiiNpito liorteman'lia! Ien un-tmially un-tmially buiy of Ile, ellly , hmoin dlatliignhhed men. The lUt Victim of Ml keen nlged Mule Joe h I cEleaton Johmton, the hero of nliiindredUUIcllill. "io "W't uftlieSlHln.L.alll o'clock ha died, of heart failure. Ho caught coll at (lcncratBherinin'funiral,andhehad not lien alio to aliaka It olT Uwia Ihli col I ahlth brought on Die trouble that culminated In llll death. .Veil to lteaurrgrd,Johnon aa the lt of the all full general! of tho Con fedcracy. llewaiborn In Verelnlaln 1807, on f eb. rd, in that lie had turn-ed turn-ed hla 81th year at tho tlmoi.fhli death. He graduated from Went Point In lkSt, and In tho aama cllaa with Hobett I.. !. A a pecon I lieutenant in th fourth artillery he crved In tho lllack I lawk InJIan war nflWC II ai iromotod to aid-decamp on Uenrral KcottlaUirin 1M, whllo eervlngln thahemenolo war. InlhoMeih-anwar he rtlclted In all (he irlnclpal Ultlra, an I wai I ment at the mnault on tho City ot Meilni. On At,rll tho l.tll. 1847. ho wai broveted Major, lieutenant-colonel and Colonel, forgalUnt and merltor-loin merltor-loin conduct at Orro Oordo, win ra ho waa aeverely woundeil. llo wai inuitored out ai Colonel cf volunteer! In ISIS, but wi! again reltuUted aa Ca tain of Topographical engloei n by act of Coiigrpu. In tho Utah t i-Jl-tlon n IS-'.I ho wai acting liniwtor. general. ()iith(Knd or Ajrll 18SI, he n Ignetl hla commlnlon In the U. r). army, nil I cntrrwl tho Confeileratw aervlco. Illi record In that army 11 welt known He wai wounded at tho lltl of Hoven line. Miy .11, 18M. Itliaaldthat Jcneraon Ilavli aiilho, did not iindentand ench oilier In mill lary matteri. There wero eeveral ery kcrloui dlaAgrernieiita, When ho aat.nl for (leneral llolmi-a' army of M,-OHO, M,-OHO, tUtloiird at l.lttlo ltock, to avlat him In meeting (Irani, Itandolfh, tl o Confederato Hecrelary of War, com. lied, but Jefleraou Uwia counter luilide.1 tho order. Thla canted Hill dolj h lo realgu hli lace. It la ald that It waa owlug to l'era lierlondlaoUilleticu that (Irani waa enabled to capture Vlckaburg. Jnlina. lou did hla Not to avert lliodl.a.tcr. Hla rttreat to Atlanta Ik fore- Hhvrmau la Well known. HeMaanllavedofhll commanJoii July 17, 1901, and John II. Hood waa put In hli tana I'rom IhU to th cloao of I lie war, uilt-uu uilt-uu iideratandliigi and Jealouihi among tho relielihleli, lield conilderablyto haatell the end. UnArll 19, ISM, he and Bhurmau entertal Into a mill lary conventl in, the tunni of which tlio -Natlooal Uovernhient iubneiuent-ly iubneiuent-ly reiudlatcil. Another agreement wai raado, which waa acceded at Waahlngton After IhewarJohmton euUrod Into iHiilmiHiiunulu. In USA lie wai appointed ap-pointed a U. H. CommlMloncr of mil. roadi. He haa lieeu a gnat faorlto with the northern loldlen over ilnitj tho war. (leiudrantalaayimalntilned that Johiiktou waa the moht comi(ut aoldlirlu tlieHouthernarmlei. It wai theolnlonof the Northern general! that ho wai by far the moat akllled of thoHoulheruolllceri. Ho wai nuvtra favorltowllhJeirUavla.aud It l laid that If Johmton and Uavla had (hangeil place! tho civil War would bavo terminated differently. It waa Utter aa It wa, aud Juhuatou ao ac-celud ac-celud It durlug tho Utter part of hli life. Jolinktouwaarwcled by rolJIera of both arnilea and the wearera of the blue, ai well ai of tho grey, will mourn thudeiarturu of a gallant auldler, a goodilllzcuanda mau of talent and rouown. |
