announcement of the death of General Sidney Johnston, the gallant Com of our army in the
Southwest, who breathing out his brave soul in of Victory, will be received with throughout our country.
He
senior officer of our army, and in all lities that make a great military com he had no superior on this con . He was born in
Mercer county, ky, in 1803, and was consequently at me of his death 59 years of age. educated at
West Point, and, on ting, entered the 6th infantry, and was to the
West.
During the
Black Hawk acted as
Adjutant General,
President being at the time a captain of volunteers.
At the close of the war he resigned commission, and resided first in
Missouri, in
Texas.
War breaking out in the lat te, be entered the
Texan army as a pri and rose to high distinction.
He after filled the post of
Secretary of War.-- the annexation of
Texas to the
United es,
Johnston raised a partisan troop, he commanded, and accompanied General.
Taylor to
Monterey.
At the close of
Mexican war be returned to his plan.
Under
Pierce,
Mr. Jefferson Davis, a
Secretary of War, made
Johnston Colonel of the Second Cavalry, and he Urgently received the command of the
Southwestern Military district.
At the outbreak the war with
Utah he was chosen to command the expedition which crossed the He continued to fill that post with ability — being, in fact, dictator in the ntry which he occupied — until the seces of the
South, when he nobly abandoned Federal flag.
Gen. Johnston was put in command of the
Southern soldiers in the Department of Kentucky and
Missouri, and invested with Penitentiary authority to control all the military operations in the
West.
His
Kentucky naivety, and his thorough knowledge of the western country, coupled with his great bility, rendered him an especially appropriate election to the important position which he eld at the time of his death.
Gen. Johnston six feet one inch high, of large, body, wy frame, quiet and unassuming manners, conspiring to form a person of imposing and attractive address.
His brother, Josiah
Stoddard Johnston, who was blown up on a steamboat on the
Red river,
La., and killed, was at the time in the U. S. Senate from that State, was the second of
Mr. Clay in his duel with
John Randolph, and was a man of the most eminent abilities.
Peace to the ashes of the noble soldier.
A grateful country will ever keep his memory green.
