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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., Preface. (search)
Preface.
A biography of Albert Sidney Johnston will need no apology with a large class of his countrymen.
Many discre design and furnished him with valuable information.
General Johnston's own papers have been preserved almost entire since were certain exceptional features in his relations to General Johnston, not often found between father and son. There was th confidence and intimacy in their intercourse, and yet General Johnston sedulously cultivated the independent development of istorical value.
There has been no effort to make General Johnston the central figure of his times, or to drag into his invites it, in the interest of historical truth.
General Johnston was singularly tolerant of others, though himself sev he best-perhaps, the only-apology for writing it; and General Johnston was so truthful and simple in all he said and did tha c, or the Chevalier Bayard as a knightly peer.
In Albert Sidney Johnston's long life he mingled in many great and memorable
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)
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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 2 : early army-life. (search)
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 3 : Black-Hawk War. (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 4 : Jefferson Barracks . (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 5 : the Texan Revolution . (search)
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 6 : as Texan soldier. (search)
Chapter 6: as Texan soldier.
Johnston's arrival in Texas, Kills a puma single-handed.
Texan Felix Huston.
his career.
his threats.
General Johnston takes command.
Huston's challenge.
repl .
the whiskey riot.
Assassination of Teal.
Johnston suffering from wound.
Asks for furlough.
a cried out, Save the dogs!
Save the dogs!
Mr. Johnston then clubbed his gun, which was a heavy Ger iend of General Johnston.
From Mr. Groce's Mr. Johnston proceeded to the headquarters of the army, amp.
The first is a reminiscence told by General Johnston; the names are suppressed in both, for ob s existing in the bureau, and relies upon Colonel Johnston's efforts to introduce better system and prefer, as commander, a trained soldier, like Johnston, whose ambition was solely military, and to w ngerous state of mind in the camp.
On General Johnston's arrival at camp, February 4th, he was r ient, humble servant, Felix Huston. To General A. S. Johnston.
General Johnston's reply was as f
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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 8 : 1840 -1845 . (search)
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 13 (search)
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 13 : the Mormon rebellion. (search)
Chapter 13: the Mormon rebellion.
The rise of Mormonism.
Joseph Smith.
his career.
Brigham Young.
Nauvoo.
Salt Lake City.
Utah.
quarrels with Federal officials.
the Danites.
Reformation of 1856.
a Hideous fanaticism.
Buchanan's appointments.
revolt.
Young's proclamation.
Mormon oratory.
a Mountain stronghold.
orders to the Saints.
Mountain Meadows massacre.
a late retribution.
General Johnston, as commander of the United States troops employed to enforce the Federal authority in Utah, was for more than two years placed in relations of either direct or indirect antagonism with the Mormon chiefs ; and, as his position was peculiarly dangerous and difficult, it is impossible clearly to understand it without some knowledge of the situation of this people and of the abnormal development of religious ideas which led to their separation into a distinct community.
The rise and spread of the Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints, is one of the most remarkable facts