St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-22
A SOLDIER SLEEPS.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston
Passes Away at His Home
in Washington.
His Demise Results From q
Cold Caught Some Weeks
Ago.
Beauregard the Only Full
General OF the Confeder-
aey Now Living.
Story of the Part Which Gen.
Johnston Took in the
Civil War.


WASHINGTON, March 21.-Gen. Jo-
seph Z. Johnston died shortly after IL
o'clock tonight at his residence, on
Connecticut avenue. The general has
been suffering for the past three weeks
with an affection of the heart, aggra-
vated by a cold he caught soon after
Gen. Sherman's funeral in New York.
His physician has been trying to keep
his strength up for some days, but
his advanced age has given little
hope for his recovery from the
very beginning Of his illness.
Gen. Johnston was the last, save Gen.
Beauregard, of the six full generals OF
of the Confederacy. The general did
not seem to suffer in the least. and was
conscious to the last. At his bedside
were eX-Gov. McLane. of Maryland; his
brOther-in-law and the nurse. The i'm
mediate cause of death was heart fail
ure, the result of degeneration of the
heart, due in q measure to cold con-
tracted some weeks ago, but more parti-
cuiiarly due to extreme old age. At
ton has shown unmiStakable Signs of a
general breaking down. His mind often
became beWildered so that he could not
tell where he was or how he came there
Some days after the Sherman funeral
the general one night got up ont of his
bed while in state of perspiration,
which greatly aggravated the slight
cold with which he was then
suffering. This brought on
severe attack of his old heart trouble,
which completely prostrated him. His
physician, Dir. Lincoln. succeeded.
however, with much difficulty in ar
resting the disease for a time, and for
a day or two prior to a week ago
Yesterday he seemed to be really i'm
proving. On that day, however, he
went down stairs without assistance, as
he had done before, but it proved too
much for his strength, and only with
the aid Of Gov. McLane could he again
reach his bed or even rise from the
sofa where he was sitting. From that
time he continued to grow worse until
Lincoln found him perfectly comfort
able and apparently little better
While his friends and attendants knew
that he might pass away at any time,
yet they had no warning that the
end was so near. Gov. McLane
entered the room a little after II
o'clock, and as he approached the
generals bedside he heard an almost
inaudible sigh, and the general was
dead. Gen. JOhnston's nearest living
relative is a sister, Mrs. Mitchell, who
lives in this city. The funeral services
will be held in this city, although the
day has not yet been fixed upon.
The interment will be made in
Greenmount cemetery in Baltimore.
He lived in this city since he lost his
office under the present administration.
Gen. Johnston was man of slender
build, of not more than medium height
and with kindly pleasant face He
was unObstrusive in manner and in
variably cOrteous to all persons with
whom he was brought in contact.
His Busy Career.
Gen. Joseph Eggleston Johnston was
born in LOngWOod, near Farmville, Va,
Feb. 3, 1909, was graduated at the
United States military academy in 1929
III the same class with Robert E. Lee.
and was commissioned second lieuten-
ant in the Fourth artillery. He served
III garrison at Fort Columbus, n. Y, in
1901, at Fort Monroe. Va, in 1912
was in the Black Hawk expedition in
1882, in garrison at Charleston, S. c., in
1928, at Fort Monroe in 1854
at Fort Madison, n. c., in
1883, and on typographical duty
in 1S34-'5. He was made first
lieutenant. Fourth artillery, July 81,
1886, aide-de-camp to Gen Winfield
Scott in the Seminole war in 1886 8.
and resigned on May 81. 1887. He was
q civil engineer IN 1878, and was ap-
pointed first lieutenant in the corps of
typographical engineers. July z, 1898.
and breVetted captain for gallantry in
the war with the Florida Indians. On
one occasion, having been sent under
the escort of party of infantry and
sailors TO make survey or recon-
noissance of region around
lake, and having crossed the lake
III boats, the party fell into
an ambuScade, and nearly all its Off
GERS were killed or disabled at the first
fire. The men were thrown into confu-
sion, but Lieut.. Johnston took command.
subdued what was fast becoming
pdiiIC, anu cOlluucteu IH6 retreat Tor
seven miles. 4 bail struck him above
The forehead, and ranged backward,
grazing the skull the whole distance.
The troops
RepeIIed the Enemy,
and carried off their wounded in safetv
10 the boats. The uniform worn Dv
Lieut.. Johnston on this occasion was
long preserved by friend as curiosi-
ty, being perforated by thirty bullets.
lie was in charge of the Black river i'm
prOvement, New York, in 1889. of the
Sault Ste. Marie in 1910. the boundary
between Texas and the United States
IN 1871, the harbOrs on Lake Erie in 1S41.
and the Typographical bureau at Wash
Ington III 1912. He served in the Florida
war OF 1S42-s, and as acting assist
ant acknowledgement in 1923. on the
survey OF the boundary between the
United States and the British provinces
Ill iS4o-4, on the coast survey in 1S44-6
ana became captain in the corps of topo-
graphical engineers Sent. 81. 1916, In
the war with Mexico he particIpated in
the siege of Vera Cruz and the battles
OF CerIo Gordo. Contreras, Churubusco.
Mollno del Rey, Chapultepec and the
assault on the City of Mexico, and was
breveted major, lieutenant-colonel and
colonel April II, 1917, for gallant and
merltoriouS conduct on reconuoi
trIng duty at Cerro Gordo. He was Sc
Verely wounded at Cerro Gordo. and
again at Chapultepec Sept. 13, 1877,
Wnere he led detachment of the storm
ing party, and Gen. Scott reported that
he was the first to plant a re@imental
color on the rampartS 81 the fortress.
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