American Men of Action

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General Scott in the Black Hawk war; and in the war with the Florida
Indians, was brevetted for gallantry in rescuing the force he commanded
from an ambush into which it had been lured, the fight being so
desperate that, besides being wounded, no less than thirty bullets
penetrated his clothes. In the war with Mexico he was thrice brevetted
for gallantry, and was seriously wounded at Cerro Gordo and again at
Chapultepec. At the beginning of the Civil War, he was
quartermaster-general of the United States army, resigning that position
to take service with the South.

When McDowell advanced against Beauregard at Bull Run, Johnston, who was
at Winchester, hastened with his army to the scene of battle, and this
reinforcement, which McDowell had endeavored vainly to prevent, won the
day for the Confederates. He remained in command at Richmond, opposing
McClellan's advance up the peninsula, but was badly wounded at the
battle of Seven Pines, and was incapacitated for duty for several
months, Lee succeeding him in command of the army.

Johnston was never again to gain any great victories, for he had in some
way incurred the ill-will of Jefferson Davis, and was placed in one
impossible position after another, sent to meet an enemy which always
outnumbered him, and refused the assistance which he should have had.
The last of these tasks was that of stopping Sherman's march to the sea,
but Sherman had sixty thousand men to his seventeen thousand, and a
battle was out of the question.

After Lee's surrender, Davis fled south to Greensboro, where Johnston
found him and advised that, since the war had been decided against them,
it was their duty to end it without delay, as its further continuance
could accomplish nothing and would be mere murder. To this Davis
reluctantly agreed, and Johnston thereupon sought Sherman and made terms
of surrender for his army and Beauregard's. The terms which Sherman
granted were rejected by Congress as too liberal, and another agreement
was drawn up,

John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of male love which included for him pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, and which he would refer to as lamour de limpossible.

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