Show ANIL ame th y 5 joba parm r aut 5 t t D lii fife ren low t t i tame A A mi A vi ky R 4 AW mw 0 W w abc 1 cx by ELMO SCOTT WATSON 3 Is the mini anni I 1 I 1 of tile the birthday of two american soldiers whose careers afford some striking similarities rind some equally isa striking dIfferences They bore tile the same family m name yet were not related wi they were graduated from the same military school both achieved distinction as indian fighters both attained high ranks in both the united states army anny and the confederate army yet one rose to the heights as a military leader only to be cheated of tits ills reward revard by death while the other lived to see ills fits fame as a soldier end in something of an antl an t cicma X the two were albert albeit sidney johnston huston Jo and JO joseph eph eggleston johnston albert sidney johnston was born on february 3 1803 in washington ky the son of a connecticut countr country y physician ard and was graduated from the united states military academy eighth in his class in 1820 ile he was assigned to the second infantry and served as chief of staff to gen henry atkinson in the Black hawk war in 1832 resigning signi fig from the army aimy in 1831 1834 lie he was a for a short time near st louls louis then in joined the texas patriots in their aek struggle for freedom although entering the tex texan an army as a private he be rapidly rose through all the grades to the command of the army and in IM 1838 president mirabeau Ml lamar of the lone star republic made him secretary of war the next nest year he led a campaign against hostile indians and in two brilliant battla 5 defeated them arid and drove them put out of texas next we find him a planter in texas but at the outbreak of the mexican war lie he was in tile the geld again as colonel ol 01 the first texas rifles rides tills regiment saon disbanded but johnston continued in the service and was inspector general of butlers division at the battle of Mont Xon crey terey although h gen zachary taylor called him the best soldier lie he ever commanded and his superiors recommended jilin him for an I 1 appointment as brigadier general he was passed over for political reasons reasons and again retired ed to his farm there he lived in poverty and neglect until president dept taylor in 1819 1849 18 19 suddenly appointed him a paymaster in the united states army and six years later president pierce appointed him colonel of a new regiment the second cavalry in 1837 he wag was placed in command of the expedition to restore res tore order among among the cormons mormons in utah who were in open revolt against the government ern ment by a forced in march a r C h of miles in 27 days lie he readied reached his little army of 1190 men to ind find them lost amid the snow filled defiles or of tho the with the temperature nt at 18 10 below zero their supplies cut oft off by the hostile cormons mormons and their starving teanis teams their only food by B Y au an extraordinary tra ordinary display of energy and wisdom army safely into winter quarters and by using equally commendable diplomacy he put an end to the rebellion without a drop of blood being shed for tins this exploit lie he was brevet ted brig brigadier adler general and a short time later placed mandof mand of the department of 0 t the pacific loyal to the army and the nation the coming of the civil war brought the alie deepest distress to johnstonm John but when texas seceded lie he resigned tits commission but lie regarded rega raed tits his coni com maud as such a sacred trust that lie con concealed coaled his resignation until he could be rell relieved eved and went at once to where in september IM he was placed in command of all the confederate forces in the west the fall of fort henry and fort donielson Doi ielson to tile the union forces under foote and grant followed and the new leader fell back to horo where he began reora tits his troops then lie moved to corinth miss the key of the defense of tho the railroad system in the lower mississippi valley where by april 1 1802 lie he had about men poorly armed and badly supplied grant commanding the he right wing of the union anny was concentrating at pittsburg landing on the tennessee river with some men and buell was rapidly at ap proa preaching cling etli with more with a napoleonic flash of genius johnston decided to beat the enemy in detail and to attack grant before buell could arrive on april 3 he started on his 25 mile march to pittsburgh landing Landl tig but ho he was delayed by bad roads roada and did not arrive jintil the ath at a council 0 of f war general beauregard tits his second in command protested ngat against ast an attack and advised a return to corinth johnston overruled him and oh oft sunday morning april 0 he led I 1 his Is army to the attack it was a complete surprise for grant was not even on the field the struggle lasted all day and was proceeding successfully just as aa johnston had planned the union army was being crowded into an augle aogle between snake creek and the tenessee Ten ossee river R and rid was facing annihilation about in the afternoon johnston jo tins while leading a charge which crushed the left wing of grants forces fell with a mortal wound beau regard with enough daylight left to com complete the victory vacillated and ordered the attack to cease that night buells brells army canie came up tip and the next day the confederates were driven from the field had the bullet which struck down albert sidney johnston linston Jo reached another target the history of the civil war might have been vastly different unlike albert sidney johnston who w was as a southerner of northern ancestry joseph egleston eggleston johnston was a southerner of the southerner Southern Souther nem cra ile he was born in cherry grove va on oa february 3 1807 the scion of a virginia family which had been in this country for nearly years ears lie was graduated from west point in 1829 in the same class that gave robert E H lee to the army and commissioned a second lieutenant in the fourth artillery with the exception of service in the black hawk war in 1832 most of tits ats first six elx years in the army was waa spent in garrison duty at various posts along the atlantic seaboard but in 1830 he be became aide de camp to gen winfield scott in alie war with t the he seminole indians indiana ift florida and won T on a brevet as captain for gallantry in action when troops under his command tell fell into an ambuscade from which johnston ex extricated trIca ted them skillfully on tills this oc occasion caslon hla his uniform was war perforated P erf orated with no less than SO 30 bullets I 1 in ili 1842 43 lie he was again in florida I 1 serving against the Semino leac in tha taft war with mexico he was at the siege of vera cruz and in the battles of cerro gordo contreras del rey iley chapultepec and tile the attack on the city of mexico ile he was severely wounded at cerro gordo and again at ch apul tepee where lie he was the first to plant regimental colors on the ramparts of the fa fortress ess for his gallanty gallan fy a at t cerro gordo he was waa brevet ted lieutenant colonel and colo net and during the next fifteen years performed various duties in the west including that of acal acting ng inspector getheral for the utah tion commanded by the other johnston albert sidney which led finally to his commission of quartermaster general of the united states army johnston resigned from the army anny when virginia seceded was commissioned a major general of volunteer is by virginia and with robert 11 lee organized the soldiers who poured into lt lehmond to defend the capital of the state next lie ho was appointed commander of the army of the shen and led it to the aid of gen eral beauregard when II mcdowell cDowell at tacked on july 21 1861 at manassas johnston outranked out ranked Bea beauregard beauregad rd and took command so that he 1 la 9 credited with the victory at bull run The next month lie he was appointed one of the five full generals authorized by the confederate congress among them albert sidney johnston but was placed fourth on the list johnston prote protested sied against tills this since he be felt that tits his high rank in the united states army when lie he resigned should have placed him first on the list and in this he was vas justified by a previous c congressional on g ressi 0 n t il a act c i T tilts 1 i is p protest r 0 te s t Is said t to 0 h have a b been e e n t the ti e b beginning e g 1 n n i n g a and n d cause of the hostility towards him shown by president jefferson davis throughout the war the quarrel between the two men according to allen alien tate in li ills Is recent blo biography graphy of davis was wag to outlast the confederacy and have a paralyzing influence upon its career after the battle of seven pines in johnston was seriously wounded davis replaced him in bom corn I 1 roand mand of th the e confederate forces in the east with gen robert stober t E leo lee and the je clipse of joseph joeph E johnston as tin an outstanding military leader began the next year lie he was sent bent to take command of the department of the west johnston John slon was one of the three tor four best soldiers in the south writes tate but he tended to avoid assuming responsibility lie ho was touchy and quarrelsome and his instinctive dislike af 9 offensive warfare had inconsistently enough undermined underlined the presidents denVa confidence in him since his retreat up the peninsula before mcclellan Afe Clellon in ili the spring in the itlie end davis lack pf af confidence may have been sheer dislike johnston had not handled him in his rancorous letters with kid gloves so when johnston went west tits his instructions were e a little vague 1 both Davi sand and johnston have t their heir ardent partisans in n the historic dispute between the two and it seems seem impossible to arrive at any conclusion as to who was most to blame nut but the net result was disaster in the ilie west which further weakened the lost cause and contributed its share to the downfall of the confederacy it fell to his lot to play a leading role Iii inthe the last military scene of the great tragedy which retell the american people between 1801 1601 an and d 1805 just as lie he had been in con command at then major engagement of the war so was he in command when the last important armed forces of the confederacy laid down their dunns on april 20 26 1805 1865 Jolin johnston surrendered lift his army to general sherman Sher mari on the same same terms under which lee had surrendered to grant after the war buston Jol Jo iuston was president of d a railroad in arkansas dent of an express company of virginia and agent for various insurance companies in 1877 he was elected tp con congress gr e s from virginia and ten years later lie he was appointed united S states tates commissioner of rall railroads roads by prest dent cleveland ile he died in 1891 1801 a by western newspaper W aa |