y own selection.
When my regiment was cut off from the brigade under General Branch, near Slash Church, in Hanover county, by the Federal divisions of Porter and Sedgwick, and Johnston's company was subsequently cut off from the regiment, after a most gallant fight, Johnston swam the river near by to encourage his men to cross, but when none of them would venture to follow him he would not desert them, but swam back, rejoined them, was captured with them, and was marched drenching wet to West Point, or rather to the White House, and was subsequently sent to Johnson's Island.
He was the son of Rev. Mr. Johnston, of the Episcopal Church in Edenton, and married the daughter of Dr. Johnson, of Raleigh.
One of his brothers used to laughingly tell him that he had never been married—that Miss Johnson only consented to take t with him. He was the life of the prison on Johnson's Island, though rapidly nearing death with consumption, and used to read the Episcopal service to his fellow-priso
Battery, Capt. R. G., 20.
Pegram's Battalion of Artillery, 35.
Pegram. Col. Wm., his ardor and courage, 72.
Petersburg, Va., Battles Around, in 1864, 41.
Picheret, Rev. Father H. A., Impressive
Prayer by, 295.
Pike, Gen., Albert, Death of, 94.
Pitcher, Gen. James A., 48.
Pleasants. Lt.-Col. Henry 23.
Point Lookout Prison Life, Address by Col. C. T. Loehr, 113; Account of, by Rev. J. B. Traywick, 431.
Poindexter, Charles, 422.
Polk, Gen., Leonidas, His Life at West Point, 371; death of, 380.
Powell, Maj. W. H., His article, The Tragedy of the Crater, 23.
Porter, Gen., Fitz John, on the Battle of Malvern Hill, 64
Prison Pens North, Hon. A. M. Keiley on, 333.
Quintard, Rt. Rev. Chas. Todd, 192.
Ragland House, The, 5.
Ramseur. Gen. Stephen D., His Life and Character, Address by Gen. W. R. Cox, 217; parentage of. 225; Gen. R. E. Lee's tribute to. 237; death of; personal appearance of, 258.
Rations of a C. S. Soldier in 1864, 409.
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