The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-03-27

DEATH OF GENERAL JOSEPH L..
JOHNSTON.
The Create 1t Military Captain of the Age.

INV hiiiitdiy tbiNildiiS VI TIC tOIi
federacy. He passed away on tn
, 21st inst at 11:15 p. m. His dis
ease was a fatty degeneration o
of the heart. 1t was thought tina
his health had been improving 70
several days, but he took a suddel
relapse from which he could neve.
recover.
If there be one for whom the
Southern hearts could ache, anC
for whom the eve would involun
tarily moisten, it should be at the
loss of Gen. Johnston. He, above
all others. has been tried in the
crucible, but in him no dross has
ever been found, but only came
out the purer by every test.
1t was our duty to serve for a
time under his immediate orders,
and we learned to love him as a
man as well as a soldier. He was
a man of few words, but of a clear
and well balanced head. No mat
ter what odds were against him,
he was never the man to be trap.
ped or caught off his guard.
What seems remarkable is the
fact hat he contracted his last
illness while attending the funer-
al of his old enemy at war, Gen.
w. 7. Sherman.
GENERAL JoHNSTON'S LIFE.
Joseph EccIeston Johnston was
born in Prince Edward county,
Virginia, February, 1907. He
graduated at the military academy
at West Point in 1929, and served
in various military capacities,
chiefly in the Typographical en-
gineers, until the outbreak of the
civil war, at which time he was
made quartermaster general, with
the rank of b~rigadier general. He
resigned his commission April %,
1861, and entered the Confederate
service with the rank of major
general. During the earlier part
of the campaign of 1862 he was in
command Of all the Confederate
forces in Virginia, and was severe.
ly wounded at the battle of Fair
Oaks, near Richmond, May 31st.
In November, having been made
lieutenant general, he was assign.
ed to the military department of
Tennessee, and in the following
made an Intellectual at
to relieve Vicksburg. on
the Mississippi, which was then
besieged by General Grant.
After the defeat of Gen. Bragg
at Chattanooga, Nov. %, 1863,
General Johnston was assigned to
the command Of all Of the Con
federate forces in the Southwest,
with the rank of general. In 1864
he was at the head of the forces
which opposed Sherman in his ia.
nous ''march to the sea-" Com
to fall back from point to
the authorities at Richmond
became dissatisfied, and on July
18th Johnston was ordered by
President Davis to turn over his
command to General Hood. Near
the close of February, 1865, when
had marched into South
Carolina, Johnston, at the express
urgency of General Lee, was di.
rected to assume command of the
OF Tennessee and of all the
forces of South Carolina, Georgia
and Florida 20 "drive back Sher-
The force which lie conld concen-
rate was greatly inferior to that
Sherman, and he was unable to
seriously check the march. Hav-
ne learned that Lee had surren- ,
Tered the Army of Virginia to
Johnston capitulated to ,
at Durham, N. c. From
he close of the war till 1885 he
engaged in agricultural, CONNER {
and railroad enterprises. In
1885, he was appointed {
Commissioner of railroads by Pres
dent Cleveland, which position he
vas deprived of in 1889 by PreSi-
Ient Harrison. He has published +,
narrative of military operations
onducted by him during the war