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Johnston, Albert Sidney 1803-

Military officer; born in Washington, Mason co., Ky., Feb. 3, 1803; graduated at West Point in 1826; served in the Black Hawk War, and resigned in 1834. He entered the Texan army as a private in 1836 and was soon made a brigadier-general, and in 1838 became commander-in-chief of the army and Secretary of War. He retired to private life in Texas. He served in the war with Mexico, and became paymaster in the United States army in 1849. In 1860-61 he commanded the Pacific Department, and, sympathizing with the Confederates, was superseded by General Sumner and entered the Confederate service, in command of the Division of the West. At his death, in the battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862, General Beauregard succeeded him.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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