Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-10-06
DEATH OF GEN. JOHNSON.

As has been stated in the Gazette,
Gen. Bradley Tyler Johnson died at
4:25 o'clock yesterday morning, at the
home of his son, Col. Bradley S. john
son, Rock Castle, Goochland county,
Va. He was taken sick there while on
a visit during the vacation at the home
of his grandson, Bradley T. johnson, jr.,
a naval cadet at Annapolis. General
Johnson had been gradually failing
from Bright's disease for some months.
His remains will be given military
honors in Richmond, and will lie in
state in the capitol rotunda until We'd
nesday morning, when they will be con-
yeyed to Baltimore where the funeral will
take place in the afternoon. Theremains
will be inferred in the family lot in
Loudon Park. The old First Virginia
Regiment, Of which he was colonel
while living in Richmond, now the
Seventieth Regiment, will be the chief
escort in that city. The veteran camps
there will also escort the remains and
furnish a guard of honor. The funeral
will be in charge of the Confederate
Society.
General johnson was born September
20. 1929, at Frederick, Md. He was
the son of Charles w. and Eleanor NJ.
Johnson, and the grandson Of Col.
Bates Johnson, of the Revolutionary
army, brother of Gov. Thomas John
son. He graduated from Princeton in
1S49, and then studied law with VIM.
]. Ross, at Frederick. He finished his
legal course at Dane Hall, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1851. In the same
year General johnson was elected states
attorney for Frederick county. In 1888
he was the democratic candidate for
comptroller Of the state. The next year
he was member of the national demo-
cratic convention which assembled in
Charleston and Baltimore, and sup
ported the regular nominee, John Q.
Breckenridge. In 1860-6l he was chair
man of the democratic State central COM
mittee of Maryland. On May s, 1861,
General johnson left Frederick in
command of 60 men, the first organized
volunteer company that went South,
and marched to the Point of Rocks,
Va. He was mustered into the army of
the Confederacy 13 days later as captain
of Company A, First Maryland regi-
ment. June II of the same year he was
commissioned major, and on July 2l en-
suing was made lieutenant colonel of
the same regiment. During the first
Maryland campaign he commanded the
Second Brigade. June %, 1868, he was
appointed colonel of the Maryland line,
of which, on February 4, 1864, he was
unanimously elected commander. June
2S, 1864, he was commissioned brigadier
general of cavalry in recognition of his
services in preventing, with battalion
of 60 men, the advance of Fitzpatrick
and Dahlgren on Richmond. From the
beginning to the end of the war he was
in active service, and participated in all
of the great battle fought in Virginia,
Maryland and Pennsylvania. After the
war General johnson remained in Vir-
ginia, and settled in 1866 in Richmond,
where he commenced the practice of law,
devoting himself especially to the laws
relating to corporations. In May, 1868,
Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase attended
a session of the United States Circuit
Court in Richmond, and began to eluci-
date principles of law to be applied to
the late Confederate States. With the
appreciation and aid of the Chief Justice
General johnson reported these deci-
sions, and published them in 1876. In
1872 he was delegate to the democratic
national convention which met in Balh-
more and nominated Horace Greeley for
the presidency. In 1875 he was elected
member of the Virginia Senate. In
the session of 1S76-77 he originated an
admirable system for governing and regu-
lating railroads in the State of Virginia,
and in 1S77-78 was the author of the
report of the finance committee, which
was considered an able and exhaustive
treatment of the whole subject of public
credit. In articles printed in daily
papers, Sin pamphlets and public address
es he had been constant and jealous in
enforcing upon his constituents the duty
and necessity of paying the State debt
and preserving unsulhed the public
faith and credit of Virginia. He was
the author of the articlein the American
Law Review of July, 1878, suggesting a
mode by which States may be compelled
to pay their debts. He married June
%, 1851, Jane Claudia, daughter of
Hon. Romulus NJ. and Anna Hayes
Saunders, of North Carolina, and
granddaughter of Hon. William john
son, of South Carolina, late associate
justice of the Supreme Court. He leaves
one son-Bradley Saunders johnson.
General Johnson resided in Baltimore
city for many years. He was associated
with Hon. John p. Poe in the prac-
tice of law, the name of the firm being
johnson & Poe. He left Baltimore
about six years ago and settled at Wood
land, handsome old estate in Amelia
county, Va. Some months ago be went
to Rock Castle, the home of his son,
where he remained until the end came.
In 1896, during the insurrection
lin Cuba, General Johnson went to
Havana as the correspondent of a