. Southern generals, who they are, and what they have done . frank bearing this name, or a similar one, with merely the let-ter t omitted. The subject of our present sketch, however, isJoseph Eggleston Johnston, of Scotch descent, and, formerly,Quartermaster-general in the United States service, but, after-wards, in conjunction with Beauregard, commanding theSouthern forces in the first battle of Bull Run, 1861. This brave and skilful officer was born about the year 1808,in Prince Edward County, Virginia. His father was the lateJudge Peter Johnston, of the general court of Virginia, dis-tingui
. Southern generals, who they are, and what they have done . frank bearing this name, or a similar one, with merely the let-ter t omitted. The subject of our present sketch, however, isJoseph Eggleston Johnston, of Scotch descent, and, formerly,Quartermaster-general in the United States service, but, after-wards, in conjunction with Beauregard, commanding theSouthern forces in the first battle of Bull Run, 1861. This brave and skilful officer was born about the year 1808,in Prince Edward County, Virginia. His father was the lateJudge Peter Johnston, of the general court of Virginia, dis-tinguished alike at the bar, and on the bench, for sound prac-tical sense and solid legal acquirements. Int youth, he hadbeen serving as an officer under Greene, in the campaign of1781, and had borne himself honorably at Eutaw, Camden,and other places. After the war of the Revolution, JudgeJohnston married Miss Polly Wood, a niece of Patrick Henry,and one of the most accomplished ladies of her day. Theyhad a large family of sons and daughters, to whose education. L O EN. J. E .J 0 H NSTO N From a,3Photoffrapk taken ,
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