Johnston

JOHNSTON, James Steptoe, American Episcopal bishop: •b. Church Hill, Miss., 9 June 1843. He was educated at the University of Virginia, served as 2d lieutenant in the Confed erate cavalry during the Civil War, subsequently studied law and was admitted to the bar. After being admitted to the bar he took orders in the Episcopal Church in 1869 and after holding rec torships at Port Gibson, Miss., six years; Mount Sterling, Ky., four years; and Mobile, Ala., eight years became bishop of western Texas in January 1888. In May 1913 he retired from active service and turned over the administra tion of the diocese to his coadjutor, and is now serving a small church and two missions in the mountains of West Texas.

John Hurnphreys, Ameri can artist: b. New York, 2 Nov. 1857. He studied art in New York as a pupil of La Farge, and in Paris under Lefebre and Doucet. He was awarded (1896) the Temple gold medal by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and a silver medal at the Paris Exposi tion (1900) as well as the silver medal at Buf falo Exposition ; gold medal at Munich (1902) ; and silver medal at Saint Louis Ex position (1904). His works are_to be found in the galleries of the Musee de Luxembourg, Paris, the Wilstach Trust Collection, Philadel Carnegie etc. He is a Chevalier Legion d'Honneur (1901) and re sides at Venice.

Joseph Eggleston, Amer ican soldier: b. Cherry Grove, Va., 3 Feb. 1807; d. Washington, D. C., 21 March 1891. He was graduated at West Point in 1829; and served with distinction in the Black Hawk and Semi nole wars. In the Mexican War he distin guished himself also and was brevetted major and colonel United States army for bravery at Cerro Gordo. He was promoted quartermas ter-general of the army with the rank of briga in June but resigned his com mission when Virginia He was then made of Virginia volunteers and later full general in the Confederate Service, taking an active part in the first battle of Bull Run, 21 July 1861, where he personally led a charge with the colors of the 4th Alabama regi ment in his hands. At the battle of Fair Oaks, 31 May 1862, Johnston was severely wounded and was disabled for service for several months.

In November he again reported for duty and was assigned to the Military Department of Tennessee. In the operations of Grant before Vicksburg he did everything possible to pre vent the shutting up of General Pemberton in Vicksburg, telegrahung him 2 May: "If Grant crosses, unite all your troops to beat him. Suc cess will give back what was abandoned to win it?' Although similar orders were repeatedly sent to Pemberton, they were disregarded; Pemberton allowed himself to be shut up in Vicksburg and the siege and surrender on 4 July followed. In December of the same year he took command of army at Dalton, Ga., and by the spring of 1864 brought it to a state of efficiency which it had not previously had, though it contained only men against Sherman's 98,797. The campaign from Dalton to Atlanta, a distance of 100 miles, was a series of severe engagem^nts without a general battle, friends claiming retreat had been the masterpiece of life and one of the most skilful and successful that had ever been executed.'> On 17 July 1864 Johnston was superseded in this.command by General Hood. In the early part of 1865 he was several times defeated by Sherman, to whom he surrendered at Durham Station, N. C., on 26 April, the terms of capitulation resembling those granted to Lee at Appomattox. After the war Johnston en gaged in business, and was member of Congress 1876-78. He was a pallbearer at the funerals of Grant and Sherman. He was United States Commissioner of Railways 1885-89 and the au thor of