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See also:JOHNSTON, See also:ALBERT See also:SIDNEY (1803–1862) , See also:American See also:Con-federate See also:general in the See also:Civil See also:War, was See also:born at See also:Washington, See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
Mason See also:county, See also:Kentucky, on the 3rd of See also:February 1803. He graduated from See also:West Point in 1826, and served for eight years in the U.S. See also:infantry as a See also:company officer, See also:adjutant, and See also:staff officer. In 1834 he resigned his See also:commission, emigrated in 1836 to See also:Texas, then a See also:republic, and joined its See also:army as a private. His rise was very rapid, and before See also:long he was serving as commanderin-See also:chief in preference to General See also:Felix Huston, with whom he fought a See also:duel. From 1838 to 184o he was Texan secretary for war, and in 1839 he led a successful expedition against the See also:Cherokee See also:Indians. From 184o to the outbreak of the Mexican War he lived in retirement on his See also:farm, but in 1846 he led a See also:regiment of Texan See also:volunteers in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, and at See also:Monterey, as a staff officer, he had three horses shot under him. In 1849 he returned to the See also:United States army as See also:major and paymaster, and in 1855 became See also:colonel of the 2nd U.S. See also:Cavalry (afterwards 5th), in which his lieut.-colonel was See also:Robert E. See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee, and his majors were See also:Hardee and See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas. In 1857 he commanded the expedition sent against the See also:Mormons, and performed his difficult and dangerous See also:mission so successfully that the See also:objects of the expedition were attained without See also:blood-See also:shed. He was rewarded with the See also:brevet of brigadier-general. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 Johnston, then in command of the Pacific See also:department, resigned his commission and made his way to See also:Richmond, where Pres. See also:Jefferson See also:Davis, whom he had known at West Point, at once made him a full general in the Confederate army and assigned him to command the department of Kentucky. Here he had to guard a long and weak See also:line from the See also:Mississippi to the See also:Alleghany Mountains, which was dangerously advanced on See also:account of the See also:political See also:necessity of covering friendly See also:country. The first serious advance of the Federals forced him back at once, and he was freely criticized and denounced for what, in See also:ignorance of the facts, the See also:Southern See also:press and See also:people regarded as a weak and irresolute See also:defence. Johnston himself, who had entered upon the Civil War with the reputation of being the foremost soldier on either See also:side, See also:bore with
fortitude the reproaches of his countrymen, and Davis loyally supported his old friend. Johnston then marched to join See also:Beauregard at See also:Corinth, See also:Miss., and with the united forces took the offensive against See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant's army at See also:Pittsburg Landing. The See also:battle of See also:Shiloh (q v.) took See also:place on the 6th and 7th of See also:April, 1862. The Federals were completely surprised, and Johnston was in the full See also:tide of success when he See also:fell mortally wounded. He died a few minutes afterwards. See also:President Davis said, in his See also:message to the Confederate See also:Congress, " Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be said that our loss is irreparable," and the subsequent See also:history of the war in the west went far to prove the truth of his eulogy.
His son, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:PRESTON JOHNSTON (1831-1899), who served on the staff of General Johnston and subsequently on that of President Davis, was a distinguished See also:professor and president of Tulane University. His chief See also:work is the See also:Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston (1878), a most valuable and exhaustive See also:biography.
End of Article: JOHNSTON, ALBERT SIDNEY (1803–1862)
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