| Show G E X S DE alt after three wee is of illness he passes away BIS 1113 RECORD in oil old soldier and one ot of the ib six full centrals generals of the southern confederacy washington WASAI WASA INGTON march 21 general joseph E johnston da died ed a at t 1 ll tonight to night the goner general 1 h hai b been le ou buffering fg ferin for thep the past abreo weeks with an affection 0 of the h a heart aggravated bya by a cold caught eoon soon after general Sher shermana Bh ermand mans funeral HIB ills physicians have been trying to keep lis strength u ath up for some days bat but bis his ad advanced v alced age haa has given little hope for recovery from the beginning of his illness tho the general did not r buffer suffer in the least and nas as conscious to the last the immediate causo cause of death was heart failure the result of tho the degeneration of the heart due in a measure to cold at times for about two years general e rat johnston Job has shown unmistakable a ble signs of a general breaking down uis ilia mind often became bewildered so he be could not tell where be he wag was or bow how bo he came there at the beginning of his last attack of illness dr lincoln was summoned and so succeeded c ceedee with ran much h difficulty in arresting the progress of the disease tor for a lima time prior to a week ago yesterday tho the gen general eral seemed to be improving but on that day he be zent downstairs ata ly without assistance overexert over exerting exert 9 bim himself self since then he be continued to grow worse until about 6 0 t this ilia evening when the doctor found him perfectly comfortable and apparently a little better there wag was no warning that death was BO so near governor mclane of maryland entered the room a little after 11 and as be he approached the bed he heard an almost inaudible sigh aed sod general johnston was dead the rhe funeral services will be held in to this city the interment in baltimore general johnston Joh naton was the last save general beauregard of six full fall generals of the confederacy lie ile was barn at cherry grove va in 1807 graduated at west point in 1829 appointed P hinted second lieutenant fourth artillery and saw active service in the black hawk indian expedition promoted on 0 ted in 1936 aide de camp on general scotts staff in he the seminole war participated in all important battles connected with scotts camp campaign alga in mexico he ile was thrice breveted for gallantry during thia this war and in 1843 was mastered mustered out of service as a lieutenant colonel of volunteers to be reinstated by congress in the army with the rank of captain of topographical engineers he ile was commissioned quartermaster general of the united states army in june 1860 but resigned the following april to enter the confederate service in which is as major general of volunteers be he assisted general lee in organizing men pouring into richmond ills ilia subsequent service throughout the war Is well known after the war he became successively president of a railroad company in arkansas an express company in virginia and an insurance agent in georgia Howa lie was elected selected to congress from the richmond district in 1877 7 aad and next saw public life as cominio lioner stoner of railroads during Clev elands administration records Ite cords show a dif different forent date of the birth and adif lerent birth place of general johnstone John stona as shown by the following and from which some further information is obtained of his career general johnston was born in longwood near farmville va february 3 and graduated at the united states military academy in 1829 in the same class with kobert robert E lee lie served in the black hawk expedition in 1832 also in the war with mexico on juno june 20 26 1860 ha he was commissioned S quartermaster general of the united states army resigning his post april 22 1861 to enter the confederate service and was commissioned a ajor major general of volunteers volunteer if in the army of virginia when lee surrendered to grant johnston advised jefferson davis that the war having bean been decided against them it was their duty to end it and A further continuation would be murder |
