The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-05
GEN. JOHNSTON'S
 DEATH UNNECESSARY
John P. Broom, in Whose Arms the Great Leader Died, Says a Little Knowledge Would Have
 Saved Him.

I Johnston died in the battle of Shiloh, is visiting his eldest daughter, Mrs. Park Heaton oi Little Rock. Mir. Broom yester- day related the details of Gen. Johnson's death, and also ex. planned that it was only he, al that time only IS years of age, did not know the principle of the tourniquet, that Gen. Johuson's wound proved fatal. Mir. Broom said that although he has often been asked for it, the exact story of the death has never been made public. He said:
 'l am the only living man that saw Albert Sidney Johnston die. On Saturday the day preceding the battle, l was detached from the company of the Georgia Hussars of which 1 was then a member and made courier to Gen. Johnston. That made it my duty to be by his side all during the battle.
 About noon on Sunday, the day of the battle, 1 was riding with Gen. Johnstoue, Dr. Yan- dell and Governor Harris of Tennessee, when we came upon group of wounded Federal prisoners. Gen. Johnston ordered Dr. Yandell to look after them. pr. Yandell protested that he should st with the general. But General Johnstone replied:
 "These men are suffering l command you to stay here aud attend to them"
 Accordingly, the doctor stayed with the wounded prisoners.
 "It was about two hours after that when we had been fighting for two hours, and the bullets were as thick as hall, that Gen. Johustone, who had been trying all afternoon to get his general to agree 10 let him lead charge, turned to Gov Harris and said: It seems to me that Gen. Hnrl- burt IS mighty stubborn"
 linen he rode around in front of the brigade and only bout 150 steps from the Illinois men in command If Hurlburt, he stopped and took off his hat. When Al bert Sidney Johnson took off his soft black hat with the sweeping plume in it (the haudsomest man that ever wore uniform, he was) while the bullets flew thick bout hlm, and he smiled quietly and spoke to his men, there wasn't a man who wouldn't have gone through hell for him.
 "'Boys,' he said. Gen. Hurl- burt seems to be mighty stub- born. We'll have to see what we can do with bayouet. We have been fighting two hours already. don't tell you to go, but l ask you to come with me. And with that, 30 or 40 paces ahead of his men, he charged.
 "Nothing could have withstood that charge. Hurlburt's brigad was broken into tatters. But those Illinois troops were as good soldiers as ever pointed a gun, and they gathered in little groups as they ran and loaded aud fired while running. It was a sho' rom one of these groups that hi' Johnston.
 , "The first 1 knew that he was hit was when Governor Harrls re. marked that Gen Johnston wal
 wounded, and Gen. Johnston re-
 ,lied, Yes, ia tally, l believe. Under Governor Harris direc tions I lifted Gen. Johnston from , h,s horse and laid him upon the
 zround. But he never said an
 other word, dying two minutes afterward. "When Dr. Yaudell came he broke down and cried like baby He asked me why l had not made tourniquet and stopped the How of blood f.om the artery whict
 was severed in the left leg told him that 1 was ouly boy
 and that the bullets were so thict i, I could hardly think anyhow ant . that I had never heard of stop . ping blood flow that way. II the , doctor had been where he shou q instead of with the Federal pris oner. Gen. Johnston would hav' $ never died. AS Dr. Yandell sai'