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The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], Sketches of "captured rebel Generals." (search)
the capture of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, the rebel commander of the department of Kentucky and Missouri, at Fort Donelson, will be hailed with delight throughout the loyal States, being, as he was, the senior officer of the rebel army, and the craftiest General in the rebel host. His capture is, in fact, more significant than would be the capture of half a dozen Beauregard. The latter bears no comparison for skill and daring with Gen. Johnston. Gen. Albert S. Johnston was born in Macon county, Ky., in 1803, and is consequently fifty-eight years of age. After the usual school training young Johnston was adopted by the U. States, and educated at its expense at the Military Academy at West Point. On graduating he entered the Sixth infantry, and was ordered to the West. During the Black Hawk war he acted as Adjutant General, President Lincoln being at the time a captain of volunteers. At the close of the war he resigned his commission, and resided first in Missouri, next in Texas