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THE REBEL GENERAL
A. S. JOHNSTON.
THE telegraph announces that
ALBERT SYDNEY JOHNSTON, late Colonel United States Army, and commander-in-chief
of the army of Utah, has been appointed by
Jeff Davis to command the rebel forces on
the Mississippi. We publish his portrait
herewith.
Albert S. Johnston was born in
Macon County, Kentucky, in 1803, and is consequently fifty-eight years of age.
After the usual school training young Johnston was adopted by the United States,
and educated at their expense at their Military Academy at West Point. On
graduating he entered the 6th Infantry, and was ordered to the West. During the
Black Hawk war he acted as Adjutant General,
President Lincoln being at the time a captain
of volunteers.. At the close of the war he resigned his commission, and resided
first in Missouri, next in Texas. War breaking out in the latter State, he
entered the Texan army as a private, and rose to high distinction. He afterward
filled the post of Secretary of War. On the
annexation of Texas to the United
States Johnston raised a partisan troop, which he commanded, and accompanied
General Taylor to Monterey. At the close of the
Mexican war he returned to his
plantation ; but being in embarrassed circumstances, was glad to accept from the
United States the post of Paymaster, which was generously bestowed upon him by
the Government. Under Pierce,
Mr. Jefferson Davis, then Secretary of War,
made Johnston Colonel of the 2d Cavalry, and he subsequently received the
command of the Southwestern Military District. At the outbreak of the war with
Utah he was chosen, over many more skilled officers, to command the expedition
which crossed the plains. He continued to fill that post—being, in fact,
dictator in the country which he occupied--until the rebellion took place, when
he traitorously abandoned his flag. He is believed to have made energetic
attempts to induce California and Oregon to join the rebels, but to have been
foiled by the common sense of our Pacific brethren and the sagacious measures
adopted by Government.
He is now, as we stated, in
command of the rebels on the Mississippi, and will have to deal with
General
Fremont.
THE United States Screw
Steam
Gun-boat Winona, built by C. & R. POILLON, of which we publish a portrait on
page 613, was launched—fully sparred and rigged, and with the propeller and main
shafting fitted up in her—from their yard, foot of Bridge Street, Brooklyn, on
Saturday, 14th inst., at 5 o'clock P.M. Her dimensions are, Length over all, 165
feet ; breadth, 28 feet ; hold, 10 feet ; tonnage, 558 tons measurement. She is
built of white and live oak, yellow pine and locust, and fastened in conformity
to the Government system of building. By the terms of contract she was to be
launched in seventy-five days, but was ready in forty-six working days from the
signing of the contract. She is of good model, and in all her details exhibits
excellence of workmanship and beauty of finish. After launching she was towed to
the Allaire Works Dock, where she will receive her boilers and other machinery,
which consists of two back-acting engines with 30-inch cylinders and 18-inch
stroke, and two tubular boilers of Martin variety. The screw propeller is of
composition, nine feet in diameter. The engines will develop about 350-horse
power, and the consumption of coal will be about eight tons per day. The total
weight of machinery will be about 130 tons.
Four gun-boats like the Winona
have been launched, viz. : Ottawa, Pembina, Seneca, and Chippewa, all of New
York.
Eighteen are in the course of
construction, and are more or less advanced, viz. : Tahoma, Wilmington, Del. ;
Wissahickon, Scioto, and Itasca, Philadelphia; Unadilla, New York; Owasco,
Mystic River, Ct. ; Kanawha, East Haddam; Cayuga, Portland; Huron, Chocura, and
Sagamore, Boston ; Marblehead, Newburyport ; Kennebec, Thomaston, Me. ;
Aroostook, Kennebunk, Me. ; Kineo, Portland, Me. ; Katahdin, Bath, Me. ;
Penobscot, Belfast, Me. ; and Pinola; Baltimore, Md.
THE REBEL GENERAL ALBERT S. JOHNSTON, COMMANDING ON
THE MISSISSIPPI.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIFE .AT THE
CONTINENTAL THEATRE, PHILADELPHIA.—[ SEE
PAGE 623.]
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