Show I 1 c irme arm mhd sn a cef jiff ain azall ame a adrift abah A arithy alny 4 but different I 1 re amab WE t rai tarn m rw M M 0 W aln ax U by ELMO SCOTT WATSON 3 la Is the anniversary 0 of the birthday bIrt lidny of two american soldiers F whose careers afford some striking similarities and some equally T striking bore the same family name yet were not related they were graduated from the same milita military ry school both achieved distinction as indian lighters both attained high ranks in both the united states army and the hie confederate army yet one rose to the heights ns as it ml military I 1 imury leader only to he be cheated of his reward revard by death while the other lived to see his fame it soldier end in something of an anticlimax anti climax the two were albert sidney johnston and joseph eggleston johnston albert sidney johnston vins horn born on february 3 1803 3 in washington ky the son of a connecticut country physician and was graduated front from the united states military tary academy eighth jn in ills his class in 1820 lie ile was assigned to the second infantry and served as chief of staff to gen henry atkins atkinson oil in the black blach hawk war in 1832 re he signing from the army lit in 1831 lie was a farmer for a short time nt ar st louis then lit in joined the texas patriots in their struggle for freedom although entering the alid texan army as a private lie he rapidly rose through all the grades grade to the command of the army and in 1838 president Hirn beau lamar of the lone star republic made liim him secretary of war tile the next year lie led a campaign against hostile indians and iu in two brilliant battles defeated them and drove them out of texas next we ill him a planter in texas but at the outbreak of the mexican war lie he wits was in the field again as colonel of alie ehst st texas rifles this regiment soon disbanded hut but johnston continued in the service and was inspector general of butlers Cut lers division nt at the battle of monterey Ion terey although gen zachary taylor called film the best soldier he ever commanded and ills superiors recommended him film for an appointment as brigadier general lie he was passed over for political reasons and again retired to his farm farin there lie he lived lit in poverty and neglect until president taylor in 1849 as 19 suddenly appointed jilin him a paymaster in the united states stales army and six years later president pierce appointed him film colonel of a new regiment the second cavalry in 1857 he was wag placed la in command of the tho expedition to restore order among the cormons mormons to in utah w who to were berc lit in open revolt against the government ern ment for his success lit in tills work he was brevet ted brigadier general and a short time later placed 11 in command of the department of the loyal to the army and the nation the ole coming of the civil war brought the deepest distress to johnston but cheni texis texas seceded us bit resigned ills commission but he regarded blo III command mand ai iticia a sacred acred trust that he concealed ills resignation until lit lie could be relieved and went at once to richmond where in september he was placed in of till all the confederate forces in the west the fall of fort foit henry and fort Donel donelson sun to the union forces under roote and grant followed and the new lender leader fell back to boro where lie begun began reorganizing his troops then lie moved to CurI corinth nth the key of the defense of the railroad lall road system astern in the lower Alls mississippi sIs valley where by april 1 I lie had about nen men poorly armed and badly supplied grant giant commanding the eight win ft ing of the union army w was as concentrating at pittsburg landing on the tennessee river with some men and huell buell was rapidly approaching pro aching with more with a napoleonic flash of genius johnston decided decide to bent beat the enemy in detail and to attack grant giant before buell could arrive on april 3 3 ile he started on his 25 mile march to pittsburgh landing lint but lie was as delayed by bad roads and did not arrive until the ath at a council of war geneal hauregard Iau Peau regard his second 4 ad in command protested protected against I 1 an at attack I 1 ack and ai a return to corinth johnston overruled bilm and on sunday morning april 6 lie led ills his army to the attack it was a complete surprise surp ilse for grant was not cot even on the field 1 the struggle lasted all aty and was proceeding successfully just as bolins johnston had biad planned the union army was being crowded into an angle between snake creel creek and the tenessee river rind find we avns facing annihilation about 2 SO in the afternoon johnston while leading a charge which crushed the left wing of giants crants forces fell with a mortal wound neau bellu regard with enough daylight left to complete tile victory vacillated and ordered the attack to cease that night brells buells aimy came up tip an aind tile next day the confederates were driven from fioro the field had the bullet which struck down albert sidney johnston reached another target the bistor history y of the civil war might have been vastly unlike albert sidney johnston who was a Sout southerner herDer of northern ancestry joseph eggleston johnston was a southerner of the Sout southerners berners ile he was born in cherry grove glove va on february 3 1807 tile scion of a VI virginia r family which had been in tills this country for nearly 1 years ile he wits wai graduated from west point in 1829 in the same class that gave robert E lee to the army and commissioned a second lieutenant in the fourth artillery with the exception of service la in the black hawk war in 1832 most of his first v six years yeara in the arm anny was wag spent in garrison duty at various posts posta along the atlantic iv St aboard but lit in 1830 lie he became fide de camp to gen winfield scott in the war var with the Senri nole indians in florida and won a brevet ns as captain for gallantry in action when troops under ills command mand tell fell into an ambuscade from which johnsson John sion extricated them skillfully on tills alila occasion ills his uni uniform forrin was perforated with no less than alian ad M bullets I 1 lit in 43 lie he was again in floridi florida serving against the Semi seminoles noles in the war with mexico he was at tile siege of vera cruz anti and in the battles of cerro gordo contreras I 1 del rey key chapultepec chapultepee and the attack on in tile tho city of mexico lie ile was severely wounded at cerro gordo and again at where he was the first to plant regimental colors on oil the ramparts of the fortress for ills his gallantry at cerro gordo he was brevet ted lieutenant tenant colonel and colonel and finally became quartermaster general of the united states army johnston resigned resl sned from the army when clr virginia enla seceded was commissioned a major general of volunteers by virginia next lie was appointed commander of the army of the she shenandoah n and led it to the ald aid of gen erbit beauregard when Al mcdowell cDowell attacked on july 21 1861 at manassas johnston outranked out ranked beauregard Heau regard and took command so that he Is credited with the victory at bull run i the next month lie he was appointed ones one of the live full generals author ked by the confederate congress among them albert sidney johnston but was placed fourth on the list johnston protested rind tills this Is said to lin have re been the beginning and cause of thi the hostility towards film shown by president davis throughout the war after tile battle of seven pines illies in 1802 1862 lit at which johnston was seriously wounded dals bals replaced 11 him im in command man of the confederate forces in the kast east with gen robert el leeande the ecIl eclipse lise of joseph h I 1 johnston huston Jo ns as an outstanding military leader begun began the next nest year lie he took command of the department of the west iloth both davis and johnston have their ardent partisans lu in the histel historic ile i le dispute between the two and it seems impossible to arrive nt lit any conclusion as to who wits most to blame but the net result was disaster in the west which further weakened the bost io t cause ond and contributed its share to the downfall of tile the confederacy it fell iq 10 1 ills his lot to piny a leading role I 1 in n tile the last military scene of the great tragedy which befell tho the american people between and 1803 just as lie he had bad been Incon In command imand at the first birst major engagement or of the war so was he lit in command when the last important armed forces of the confederacy laid in id down their arms amis on april 20 26 1803 1863 johnston surrendered ills his army to general sherman on the same terms under which lee had surrendered to grunt grant after the war johnston was president of a railroad rall road in arkansas president of oil air express company of virginia and agent for various insurance ranee companies in 1877 lie ho was elected to congress from virginia and ten years year s later wits was appointed united states state 9 commissioner of railroads by president Clevela cleveland nl lie ile ded in nc hy by weater newspaper Newa News paper uni union conj |