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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 4 (search)
he last but one of the six full generals of the war for Southern Independence (General Beauregard now alone remaining), General Joseph Eggleston Johnston, died at his residence in Washington, D. C., on the night of March 21st, 1891. His death excited profound emotion, and throughout the Southern States the testimony of regard in which he was held was touchingly manifested. Richmond. In Richmond, Lee Camp of Confederate Veterans led in the initiative. At a meeting of this body, held March 23d, a committee of which Colonel Archer Anderson was chairman, was appointed to prepare resolutions to the memory of General Johnston. The following chaste and touching tribute from the pen of Colonel Anderson was submitted by him in a meeting of Lee Camp, held March 27th, and was unanimously adopted by a rising vote: A great soldier has passed from among us. The death of General Joseph Eggleston Johnston has filled every southern veteran's heart with sorrow, and we have met to gi