The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-05-01
GEN. ALBERT SYDNEY JoHNsos.

THIS officer - one of the most crafty and
competent in the rebel service, and whose
death has been reported in the battle of
Pittsbrug Landing = was born in Macon
County, KY, IN lse9, and therefore entered
on his fifty eighth year not long ago lie
was educated at the Transylyania Univers-
ty, KY, under President Holley, graduated
| at the ~. S, Military Academy, at West
Point, at the age of twenty-three, and en-
tered the army IN second lieutenant the
same year. His first service was with the
Sixth Infantry, with which he was ordered
| to the West. During the Black Hawk
War he acted as adjutant-general, President
Lincoln at that time serving as captain of
volunteers. At the close of the war he
went 10 reside, first in Missouri, and them
in Texas. When war broke out in this lat
| ter State, he resigned his commission in the
United States Army, and rushed to her aid.
alone and unknown, and entered the service
as a common soldier. Ho soon made the
acquaintance of Gen. Rusk, commanding
| that divipon, who at once promoted him 10
! a command. lie rose to be the commander
in,chief - was Secretary of War under
President Lamar = fought the battle Of
! Neches, defeating seven hundred Chero-
KEGS.
At the breaking out of the Mexican
War, at the urgent request Of Gen. Taylor.
4 he again entered the service, as Colonel of
the First Texas Regiment. When this was
disbanded, Gen. johnson became Inspector
Gen. Buffers division, and served rs such
in the glorious battle Of Monterey; he was
III the hottest of the fight, and his horse
was three times shot under him. After
this he retired to private life, and turned
his sword into plowshare, cultivaling the
Al. Al. !. l.. 4 :
the United States Government, in consider
alton of his necessity and long service, be-
slowed upon hin the appointment OF pay
master in the army, In 1875 E2 was aP-
pointed to the command of the Regiment
Of Cavalry, with the rank of colonel, and
ordered to the Department of Texas, and in
1858 was appointed to the command of the
expedition to Utah, and, in 1883, was pro-
noted to the rank of Brigader General.
He started on the expedition to I'.oh under
orders in September 1857. On the 9th Of
November, in the Rocky Mountains, he
encountered o stOlm Of snow and wind
which, in his own words, cracked the
bones of his men, and starved the oxen
horses and mules The snow was from
, two to four feet deep, and the thermometer
4 at FROM sixteen to eighteen degrees below
zero for ninety days afterwards, but he
pursued his march, making on thirty-iive
miles in fifteen days, where ho went into
camp, and subsisted OH mules, without
bread or salt, until provisions were sent by
the Government in the following spring 8.
He continued 10 fill the post of Command
/ erin Chief in Utah - being in fact dictator
in the country which he occupied = until
the rebellion broke out, when he abandon
ed the old flag of the Union TO enlist raider
the banner Of the secessionists. He is be-
/ leved TO have made energetic attempts 10
induce California and Oregon to Join the
, rebels, but to have been foiled by the COM
mon sense of our Pacific brethren, AID the
sagaoous measures adopted by the GoIern-
, ment. Last fall, Gen. johnson wasput III
, command Of all the rebel soldiers in The
States of Kentucky and Missouri, and in
: vested with plenipotentiary authority TO
control all the military operations IN the
West. His Kentucky nativity, end his
: thorough knowledge of the western country
: coupled with his great ability, rendered
' him an especially appropriate selection to
9 this important position, General Johnson
; was six feet one inch high, of large, bony
: sinewy frame, quiet and unassumi"g man
!. ners, all conapifiDg TO form person OF I'M
0 posing and attractive address. His brother
!. Josiah Stoddard Johnson, who was blown
: up on steamboat on the Red river, La
4 and killed, was at the time in the United
n States Senate from that State, was the second
of Mr., Clay, in his duel with John Randolph
i and was man of the most eminent abilities
J, The Rebels had the greatest faith and reli
4 anoe in his skill and ability, and his loss a
g this trying juncture must intlict terribl'
i blow at their fortunes,
}, Tue battle at Pittsburg Landing was par
n ticulafly fatal TO the Johnson family. Ger