The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-04-24
EBENSBURG Pa THURSDAY, APRIL a. 1862

Since that time he has been actively en-
gagged in the field under Gen. Buell.. His
commission of Brigadier General dates
from Sept. II, 1861.
Brigadier General William Nelson,
commanding division under Gen. Buell.,
is native of Mason county, Kentucky.
Having been educated in the Navy, and
having obtained the rank of Lieutenant,
he was detailed last spring (1861) to COM
mand the Ohio river feet of gunboats.-
He entered the Navy in 1910, and was
two and half years at sea as Lieuten-
an.
Brigadier General William Tecumseh
Sherman is native of Ohio, and entered
the Military Academy at West Point in
1886. He graduated in 1910, standing
ais Van Vliet, Gen. II. Thomas and 9TH
ers of the Union army, and General Nc
Gown of the rebels, recently a comman-
der at Island No. 10. On the lst Of Ju-
ly, 1910, he was promoted to Second
Lieutenantcy of tie Third Artillery. and
on the Both of November, 1S41, was fur
ther promoted to First ..ieutenancy.
He gained Captaincy in the Mexican
War, and resigned in 1858. He was
made Brigadier in May, 1851.
Brigadier General Stephen A. Hurl-
burt is a native of South Carolina, but
citizen of the State of Illinois, from which
State he was appointed to Brigadier
Generlship of volunteers, he having been
connected with the militia force Of Illi-
nois. He served during the earlier trou-
mont, held charge of the Hannibal and
St. Joseph Railroad
Brigadier General B. H. Preatiss, who
is reported to have been taken prisoner at
the battle of Pittsburg Landing, is ma
tive of Illinois, or, at least, has lived there
from his early boyhood. His previous
history, until the. Mexican War, was un-
marked by any very important event -
but on that occasion he volunteered as a
Lieutenant of the Illinois troops, and was
selected by the unfortunate j. J. Hardin
to act as his Adjutant.
General W. H. L. Wallace. who is re-
ported killed at the gallant action at
Pittsburg Landing, was formerly one of
the earliest three years volunteer cole
nels in the service He held command Of
the Eleventh Regiment of Illinois volun-
teers, which was organized at Camp Har-
din, Pulaski county, Illinois, and joined
the depot at Cairo during the early stages
of the war.
General Albert Sydney Johnson-one
of the most crafty and competent in the
rebel service, and who was killed at the
battle of Pittsburg Landing-was born in
Mason county, Kentucky, in 1903. He
was educated at the Transylvania Uni
versity, Lexington, KY, under President
Holley, graduated at the United States
Military Academy at West Point, at the
age of twenty-three, and entered the army
as Second Lieutenant, in the same year.
His first service was with the Sixth In
fantry, with which he was ordered to the
West. During the Black Hawk War he
acted as Adiutant General, President Lin
coin at that time serving as Captain of
volunteers. At the cloge of the war he
went to reside first in Missouri and then
in Texas. When war broke out in this
latter State, he resigned his commission
In the United States Army, and rushed
to her aid, alone and unknown, and enter
ed the service as common soldier. He
soon made the acquaintance of Gen. Rusk,
that division, who at once
promoted him to command-he rose to
be commander-in-chief- Secretary of
War, under President Lamar-fought
the battle of the Neches, defeating seven
hundred Cherokees At the breaking
out Of the Mexican War, at the urgent
of General Taylor, he again en-
tered the service as Colonel Of the First
Texas Regiment; when this was disban-
ded, General johnson became Inspector
General of General Buffers division, and
served as such IN the glorious battle of
Monterey; he was in the hottest part of
the fight, and his horse was three times
shot under him. After this he retired
into private life until, in 1910, the Uni
ted States Government bestowed upon
him the appointment of Paymaster in the
army. In 1855, he was appointed to the
of the Second Regiment of Cav
airy, with the rank of Colonel, and in
1857 was appointed to command the ex-
pedition to Utah, and in 1858 was pro-
noted to the rank of Brigadier General.
He started on the expedition to Utah un-
der orders in September, 1857.
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