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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 2 0 Browse Search
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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 1: family and boyhood. (search)
sure to thwart their ablest efforts. I think he cited, as one instance, General Woll, of the Mexican Army, a Belgian, whom he esteemed as its best soldier. The circumstances attending the graduation of Albert Sidney Johnston were somewhat unusual. He had won his way by hard labor to a grade in mathematical attainment only excelled by W. H. C. Bartlett, afterward distinguished as a professor of the institution, to whom he accorded an easy eminence; and by Mr. Twiss, who was inferior to Bartlett only. Mr. Davis says: Johnston did not highly value class-standing, but was anxious for a thorough knowledge of the course. He devoted himself earnestly to the preparation for the examination, and was satisfied with his mastery of the whole course except two problems; but, when he was called upon to come forward, the subject presented to him for discussion was one of these very problems. He was compelled to decline, hoping for better fortune next time; but, to his dismay, by a c
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter II (search)
l had been killed in the last battle at Petersburg. A keen pang shot through my heart, for he had not ceased to be esteemed as my kind friend and brother, though for four years numbered among the public enemy. His sense of duty, so false in my judgment, I yet knew to be sincere, because I knew the man. I wish all my fellow-citizens, North and South, East and West, could know each other as well as I knew A. P. Hill. I was assigned to duty in the department of philosophy, under Professor W. H. C. Bartlett, one of the ablest, most highly esteemed, and most beloved of the great men who have placed the United States Military Academy among the foremost institutions of the world. At first it seemed a little strange to be called back, after the lapse of only two years, to an important duty at the place where my military record had been so bad. But I soon found that at West Point, as elsewhere, the standard of merit depended somewhat upon the point of view of the judge. A master of ph
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
herman's organization in, 122 et seq.; questions of rank in, 150, 151; S. requested to write a critical history of, 162; Thomas's service in, 189; results of, 309; Sherman's tactics in, 340-343 Augusta, Ga., proposed destruction of, by Sherman, 317, 318, 333; Sherman's movement to, 332, 333, 337, 338 Austria, attitude in the Mexican affair, 385 B Bank of South Carolina, effect of brass on the cashier, 17 Baring Bros., 384 Bartlett, Miss, Harriet, married to S., 29 Bartlett, Prof. W. H. C., 26, 29, 74 Bates, Edward, U. S. Attorney-General, letter to S., Sept. 29, 1863, 93 Bayonet, the, superseded by the rifle, 145, 146 Bazaine, Marshal Francois A., occupation of Mexico, 391 Bean's Ferry, see Beard's Ferry. Beard's Ferry, Tenn., proposal to obstruct roads at, 211 Beatty, Maj.-Gen., Samuel, in battle of Nashville, 263 Beauregard, Gen. Pierre G. T., possible movements by, 199, 311, 321, 322; Thomas's ability to defeat, 288; proposal that Thomas take th