Not many days after Drewry's Bluff, Gen. Bushrod Johnson was made a major-general, and the command of Johnson's famous brigade devolved upon the gallant John S. Fulton, Forty-fourth Tennessee, who had led it with distinction at Chickamauga and Knoxville. Justice in General Johnson's case was tardy and cruel. He commanded brigades as brigadier-general at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, a division at Chickamauga and Knoxville, and won promotion on every field. At Chickamauga he pierced the enemy's lines and won the battle, but he was a modest man who never learned the trick of ‘cowering low with blandishment.’
At dawn on the 16th of June, Bushrod Johnson with his command abandoned the Bermuda Hundred line, under orders from General Beauregard, and arrived at Petersburg about 10 o'clock a. m. General Beauregard had now about 10,000 men of all arms to meet the Second and Eighteenth army corps, commanded, respectively, by Hancock and Smith. Burnside's corps (the Ninth) came up at noon. The Federal forces now outnumbered Beauregard by six to one. At nightfall Warren's corps, the
