The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-09

A Pen-Ricturs Of Gen. Joseph E Johnston
the Confederate Leader.

San Francisco Examiner
very whits-haired and white-whiskere& gem
other day, and while he pulled away leisufely
at cigar eazed IA idle though dieai6ed curl
osity Ut tho younger people passing by. Few Of
San Franchises jsunesss doree. with bats s-cock
and canes atip, gave more than passing
glance at the white-haired old gentleman The
latter sat AID eyed them ALL and seemed to note
their air Of indifference with an amused express
sion OF his dark. cleaning eye, which hay hid
den behind an overhsnging brov, frosted vim
silver. How many OF the g,iasd youth, bent
could have even guessed at the aged mans iden-
tity, and il they had known it, how few that
would not have stared at himi And well they
might
The old man-trim. erect. scrupulousiy neat,
and With An air that somehow 10 not often seen
Ia the present gsnsrAtiou-is one Of the few Nv
ing and wellpressrved Of the mightiest perform
ers In . nations tragedy. GenersP Grant and
Lee are gone Hancock. Ewsll, Hooker. Hood,
Jsb Stuart, Pemberton-and now last and fore
most Of the recent survivors, Sheridan, has bean
laid to rest ct Arlineton. The two most dissin-
guishsd Of the commanders OK the two great
centending armies, Sherman and Joseph L.
Johnston. are ye. living. and OF the really ereA
Sherman il in New York, and 10 " old General
Johnston, who surrendered 10 Sherman on that
disordersd April morn in North CArolina In 1865,
that now ats rocking his restful frame in the
court Of the palace.
Younger people who see the old General hard
~ realize that be 10 the sole survivor Of the dis
tiaspished confederate leaders. He is the last
of the officers Of that army who bore the full
rank OF general There were but three OF these
Lee, Johnston and Thomas j. jackson tStons-
wall}, killed at Chancsliorsviiie. The leaders
more closely remembered by tae generation OF
to-day, men ike Beaureeard, Early. Longstreet,
Pemberton, Ewsll the younger Lees and hood.
were Northumberland There were scores Of
major -esnsralA Nearly ali Of those who ~
tanned distinction or filed the worlds eye in .
great degree gone. The only names now
recalled, Of those Of the living, who were subor-
dioates Of the old. gray-hsirsd leader in the
~, Wade Hampton and Fifth ugh Lee Provi-
dsnee has dealt more mercifuliy with the dis-
tinguished survivors of the rebellion than with
those who crushed it out Few, indeed. Of
the latter rsmain-noue. in fact but Sherman.
Sshofeld, Howard, Slocum aud Terry.
Ola General Johnston 10 not only smiable, bat
very eourtly. He chats very pleasantly OF what
he has seen in California In later years and dis
courses eloqusntly Of the marvellous changes
He viii even talk Of the growth OF the whole
great West and predict. with something Of Q
sad air. that II be could only have foreseen forty
years ago, when be was . dragon csicer what
California was to be, be would BOW not have %
depend upon his own resources
One thing the old gentleman viii not talk
about Let the subject OF the war and the
armed hosts Of the South be brought up, AID
tse General draws :nto hin shell at oncs Alter
o hint thus received, IL were well that O. par
sistent searcher for information bad hied him 90
. monastery, for the indignant stare he win eet
from General Johnston's eyes will b. rsmem-
bered ell bis life
One memory Of the wax he will speak of-ons
hero Of the Union forces he il ever ready to dis-
cuss-General Sherman. Let the name Of Sher-
man be mentioned and thu chances are that the
old mans eye will soften and he will say.
"Well, it's all over. but sTecump' and I we're
classmates
Aud 90 il WAS. These two hiehest-ranksd COM
batants now living ssudisd loearithms made
field notes Of engineering defenses, rode horses
"a cavalry tactics. went out TO old Benny Ha-
veDs's famous place for pop and ginger beer to-
gsther. and now. when both have fought their
fight aud the years are gone, those WHOSE
rare privilege il is TO see the two together ana
witness their antics often wonder IT, altar AL
there ever was o war. "Tecump" and Joe
mess sometimes in New YORK aud Washington.
When they do the @. A r aud the Grave Of
Atlanta had better not talk too much Of the rle-
ries and humiliations of the past