Report of the First Meeting of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland: Held at Cincinnati, February, 1868 (Classic Reprint)
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The lustrous remembrances of Chickamauga, Stone River, Franklin, Perryville, Nashville, and other fields of glory where our columns faced the horrors of a rebellious war, speak for it most forcefully. Your own memories, your own hearts, will plead most eloquently and effectively in its behalf.
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A Soldier's Reminiscences: In Peace and War (Classic Reprint)
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Once, in familiar conversation with a friend, recalling incidents of our early and later lives, I was asked, "Why do you not employ your leisure hours in recording some of your experiences in the various and interesting vicissitudes through which you have passed?" It was added, "The occupation would be a pleasure for yourself, and your relatives and friends would preserve such reminiscences with an affectionate appreciation."
Almost involuntarily I drifted into the line of the suggestion, never thinking for a moment of publishing the sketches and reflections which have formed a panorama of my hours of recreation.
The accumulations, however, of these recitals and delineations came at last to equal a volume, and then came the urgent solicitations of friends to publish them in book form. I consented to do so, and this volume is now presented to the public.
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Richard William Johnson was an American military soldier, and later officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Background
Johnson was born on February 7, 1827, near Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky, the son of Dr. James L. and Jane (Leeper) Johnson, who had moved to Kentucky from Prince Edward County, Virginia. His emigrant ancestor was Thomas Johnson, who came to America in 1700.
Education
Young Johnson's early schooling was primitive until the year 1844, when an elder brother, Dr. John Milton Johnson, later surgeon in the Confederate army, secured for him a cadetship at West Point. Graduating in 1849, and assigned to the 6th Infantry.
Career
In 1849, Johnson saw almost continuous frontier service at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, in Texas, and in Indian Territory, engaging in a skirmish with Comanche Indians on the Rio Concho, Texas, in 1856, and near Brady Creek, Texas, in 1858. With the outbreak of the Civil War, he participated in the action at Falling Waters, was appointed lieutenant-colonel, 3rd Kentucky Cavalry, August 28, 1861, and brigadier-general of volunteers, October 11 of the same year.
On August 21, 1862, he was made prisoner by Morgan near Gallatin, Tennessee, and after exchange, commanded a brigade and division at Pittsburg Landing, Corinth, Stone's River, Tullahoma Gap, Liberty Gap, and Chickamauga, where he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel. Subsequently, he took part in the battle of Missionary Ridge, and was brevetted colonel, November 24, 1863, for gallantry at Chattanooga. In the invasion of Georgia, March-June 1864, he took part in the battles at Dalton, Resaca, and New Hope Church, where he was severely wounded, and later took part in the battle of Nashville, being brevetted major-general of volunteers, brigadier-general and major-general, United States Army, for gallant and meritorious services.
In 1881 he was the unsuccessful candidate of the Democratic party for governor of Minnesota. He wrote manuals of Sharp's rifle and carbine and Colt's revolver for Thomas Worthington's The Volunteer's Manual (1861); an address published in the Report of the First Meeting of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland (1868); A Memoir of Major-General George H. Thomas (1881), A Soldier's Reminiscences in Peace and War (1886), and "Fort Snelling from its Foundation to the Present Time. "
Retired, October 12, 1867, with the rank of major-general, he became professor of military science at the University of Missouri, which gave him the degree of master of arts in 1868, and subsequently served in the same capacity at the University of Minnesota, making St. Paul his home until his death.
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Connections
Johnson was twice married, in 1855 to Rachael Elizabeth Steele of Fort Snelling, by whom he had three sons; and in 1894, to Julia Anne McFarland, prominent educator, by whom he had one son.