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Lt. Col. William Preston Johnston, by Joseph Henry Bush. William Preston Johnston (January 5, 1831 – July 16, 1899) was a lawyer, scholar, poet, and Confederate soldier. He was the son and biographer of Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston. [1] He was a president of Louisiana State University and the first president of Tulane ...
General Johnston was singularly tolerant of others, though himself severe in principles and circumspect in conduct. Hence it has not been thought necessary, for the most part, to vindicate his opinions or actions; since, if the tenor of his life was noble and good, its errors and mistakes may well be left standing for such warning or censure as ...
The pressure upon Sidney Johnston was from no selfish thought or narrow feeling, but from [ 717] the circumstances under which he had “ordered the battle for to-morrow morning at daylight,” and the disparity of his forces compared with those of the enemy.
William Preston Johnston was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of General Albert Sidney Johnston. His mother, Henrietta (Preston) Johnston), died when he was four, and he was raised by General William Preston and a relative of his mother's. He graduated from Yale in 1852, studied law at the University of Louisville, and took up the practice ...
In addition to his vocation of sonneteer, Johnston was a Confederate soldier, lawyer, and educator. The son of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. Born in Kentucky, William Preston Johnston became a colonel in the Confederate army at the beginning of the Civil War and served on the staff of Jefferson Davis. After the war he was a professor at Washington and Lee University until November, 1880 when he ...
William Preston Johnston was a lawyer, scholar, poet, and Confederate soldier. He was the son and biographer of Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston. He was a president of Louisiana State University and the first president of Tulane University from 1884 .
Albert Sidney Johnston shared in the general sympathy with the Texan cause, but there were personal reasons which increased the intensity of his own feelings. In early youth, as has been mentioned, he had spent some time in Alexandria, Louisiana, then a border village, and consequently had familiar recollections of many from that region who ...
