OBITUARY.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 995, 27 March 1891, Page 32

OBITUARY.

(bv electric telegraph—copyright.) DEATH OF GENERAL JOHNSTON. (special to press association ) Washington, March 23. General J. Johnston, a prominent leader on the Confederate side in the American Civil War, is dead. [General Joseph Eccleston Johnston was born on Prince Edward's Island, Virginia, February, 1807, and graduated at the Military Academy, of West Point in 1829. He was QuarterMaster General in the United States Army when the Civil War broke out. He then resigned his commission and entered the Confederate service as Major-General. He commanded the Confederate forces in Virginia, and was wounded at the Battle of Fair Oaks near Richmond, May 31. He made an ineffectual attempt to relieve Vicksburg when besieged by General Grant. After the defeat of General Bragg at Chattanooga in November, 1563, he took command in the south-west with the rank o£ general. He was

soon after opposed to Sherman in his celebrated “ march to the sea.” Meeting reverses, he was compelled to relinquish his command to General Hood, but soon afterwards he was directed to assume command of the remnant of the Tennessee Army and to drive back Sherman. His force being greatly inferior, he could do little, and having learnt that Lee had surrendered the A rmy of Virginia to Grant he capitulated to Sherman at Durham s Station, North Carolina. Since the war he has been engaged in agricultural and commercial enterprises. He was Commissioner of Railroads under President Cleveland. _ He has published a “ Narrative of Military Operations conducted during the War between the States.’’] DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN JOURNALIST. m (per press association.) - Christchurch, March 23. Mr E. Vcsey Hamilton, formerly Parliamentary correspondent for the Lyttelton Times, and successively editor of the Star and Canterbury Times, died this morning of atrophy, aged 33.