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THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF COL. CHARLES DEMORSES’ 29TH TEXAS CAVALRY CAMP

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Gettysburg, Pa…………………………………..3,680 Glendale, Va……………………………………1,198 Grafton, W. Va…………………………………1 ,276 Hampton, Va…………………………………..11,549 Jefferson Barracks, Mo………………………..12,642 Jefferson City, Mo………………………………..843 NATIONAL CEMETERIES Keokuk, Iowa…………………………………….906 Knoxville, Tenn………………………………...3,552 The following gives a list of the National Lebanon, Ky……………………………………..875 Lexington, Ky…………………………………..1,136 Cemeteries in the United States authorized by act of Little Rock, Ark……………………………… 6,916 Congress of July 17, 1862, and subsequent acts, and Loudon Park, Md……………………………….4,002 shows the number of interments in each up to June Marietta, Ga…………………………………...10,424 30, 1917. The list was taken from the National Memphis, Tenn………………………………..14,441 Tribune, of Washington, D. C, for which paper it Mexico City, Mexico…………………………..1 ,552 was prepared by the War Department (Office of the Mill Springs, Ky………………………………….729 Quartermaster General): Mobile, Ala……………………………………..1,127 Mound City,……………………………….111 5,432 Alexandria, La………………………………….4,542 Nashville, Tenn………………………………16,77 1 Alexandria, Va………………………………….3,565 Natchez, Miss…………………………………..3,414 Andersonville, Ga……………………...... 13,723 New Albany, Ind……………………………….3,146 Andrew Johnson, Tenn…………………… ………19 Newbern, N. C………………………………….3,399 Annapolis, Md………………………………….2,544 Philadelphia, Pa…………………………………3,444 Antietam, Md…………………………………...4,759 Poplar Grove, Va……………………………….6,217 Arlington, Va………………………………….24,478 Port Hudson, La………………………………...3,851 Balls Bluff, Va……………………………...... 25 Quincy,………………………………………111 317 Barrancas, Fla………………………………….1 ,663 Raleigh, N. C……………………………………1,214 Baton Rouge, La………………………...... 3,163 Richmond, Va…………………………………..6,578 Battle Ground, D. C……………………………….44 Rock Island,………………………………...111 ; 424 Beaufort, S. C…………………………...... 9,492 Salisbury, N. C………………………………...12,149 Beverly, N. J……………………………...... 201 San Antonio, Tex……………………………….1,970 Camp Butler,………………………………111 1,597 San Francisco, Cal……………………………...7,166 Camp Nelson, Ky………………………………3,660 Santa Fe, N. Mex……………………………….1,099 Cave Hill, Ky…………………………...... 4,790 Seven Pines, Va………………………………...1,400 Chalmette, La………………………...... 13,120 Shiloh, Tenn…………………………………….3,622 Chattanooga, Tenn…………………………….13,706 Soldiers' Home, D. C…………………………...7,825 City Point, Va…………………………………..5,180 Springfield, Mo…………………………………2,451 Cold Harbor, Va………………………………..1,969 St. Augustine, Fla………………………………1,775 Corinth, Miss…………………………...... 5,737 Staunton, Va………………………………………766 Crown Hill, Ind………………………………… 816 Stone River, Tenn………………………………6,149 Culpeper, Va……………………………………1,375 Vicksburg, Miss……………………………….17,070 Custer Battle Field, Mont………………………1,583 Wilmington, N. C……………………………….2,361 Cypress Hills, N. Y…………………………….7,673 Winchester, Va…………………………………4,546 Danville, Ky……………………………...... 359 Woodlawn, N. Y………………………………..3,278 Danville, Va…………………………………….1,331 Yorktown, Va…………………………………..2,196 Fayetteville, Ark………………………………..1,316 Finns Point, N. J………………………………..2,632 Total………………………………………….372,164 Florence, S. C…………………………………..3,013 Fort Donelson, Tenn……………………………...676 Over seventy thousand of these are Union Fort Gibson, Okla………………………………2,488 Soldiers who died in Confederate Prisons and are Fort Harrison, Va…………………………………818 buried in National Cemeteries adjacent to the points Fort Leavenworth, Kan…………………………4,046 where the prisons were located. Andersonville, Fort McPherson, Nebr……………………………854 Florence, and Salisbury are entirely prison Fort Scott, Kan…………………………………...885 cemeteries. Fort Smith, Ark………………………………...2,399 Fredericksburg, Va……………………………15,186

Of these interments approximately 10,578 are those of Confederates, being mainly in the following National Cemeteries:

Arlington, Va…………………………………….300 Camp Butler,………………………………...111 865

City Point, Va…………………………………….131 Cypress Hills, N. Y………………………………456 GEN. ADAM RANKIN JOHNSON Finns Point, N. J………………………………..2,436 (1834–1922) Hampton, Va……………………………………..284 Fort Smith, Ark…………………………………..127 Jefferson Barracks, Mo…………………………..826 Little Rock, Ark………………………………….922 Philadelphia, Pa………………………………….200 Springfield, Mo…………………………………..549 Woodlawn, N. Y……………………………….3,012

Total ………………………………………..121,108

'Leaves have their time to fall, and flowers wither at the North wind's breath ; But thou, thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death."

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Vol. XXX. No. 10. NASHVILLE, TENN., OCTOBER, 1922.

THE GALLANT GRAY

BY MILLARD CROWDUS, NASHVILLE, TENN.

In homespun gray they marched away, The bugles sang: "Come, life is gay!" Brave hearts beat high, cheers soared to sky, Brave lips stilled sobs: "Good-by, good-by!" In homespun gray they marched away, The bugles laughed: "Come, Youth, and play!' In tattered gray they met the fray, The frantic bugles shrilled: "This way!" Through hell's red glare, on, on, and there — Defeat, at last, but not despair. Poor shattered gray, Fate ruled that day, The bugles sobbed: "Come, come, away!" In hallowed gray they sleep to-day; The bugles hushed and silent lay. The south wind sighs, where battle cries Long echoed—blue and fair the skies — In hallowed gray they sleep to-day, Sweet rest be theirs, the gallant gray!

Adam Rankin "Stovepipe" Johnson (February 6, Johnson was appointed brigadier general on September 1834 – October 20, 1922) was an antebellum Western 6, 1864, to rank from June 1, 1864, though his frontiersman and later an officer in the Confederate States appointment was never confirmed by the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Johnson obtained Congress.[2] On August 21, 1864, he was blinded by an notoriety leading the Newburgh Raid using a force of only accidental shot from one of his own men during a skirmish about 35 men. Johnson and his men confiscated supplies at Grubb's Crossroads, near Princeton, Kentucky. Left and ammunition without a shot being fired by tricking behind because of his injuries, he was captured by the Newburgh's defenders into thinking the town was Federals and was a prisoner for much of the remainder of surrounded by cannons. In reality, the so-called cannons the war in Fort Warren. He was exchanged near the war's were an assemblage of a stove pipe, a charred log, and end, and despite his blindness attempted to return to active wagon wheels, forever giving the Confederate commander duty. However, the final surrender put a stop to that. the nickname of Adam "Stovepipe" Johnson. Permanently Adam R. Johnson returned to Texas after being blinded during a skirmish in 1864, Johnson in 1887 exchanged and paroled in 1865. Despite being blind, he founded the town of Marble Falls, Texas, which became founded a town, established a company, and worked to known as "the blind man's town." harness the water power of the Colorado River. One of his Johnson was born in Henderson, Kentucky, a son of sons was Rankin Johnson Sr., a former Major League Thomas J. and Juliet (Rankin) Johnson. Educated in the pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals. local schools, he went to work at age 12 in a drugstore for He died in Burnet, Texas in 1922 at the age of 88, and the next eight years. In 1854 he moved to Hamilton Valley is interred at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas. in Burnet County, Texas, and worked as a surveyor on the He rests beside his wife Josephine and near his grandson, West Texas frontier. He was a noted Indian fighter and Judge George Christian Sr., and a great-grandson, former provided supplies and animals for the Butterfield Overland White House Press Secretary George Christian Jr. Mail stations. On January 1, 1861, he married Josephine Eastland of Austin, with whom he had nine children. When the Civil War began and his native Kentucky struggled to maintain its neutrality, Johnson returned home and joined Nathan B. Forrest's cavalry battalion as a scout, fighting with him at his first engagement at the Battle of Sacramento.[1] He escaped capture with Forrest after Fort Donelson, when the Confederate commanders decided to surrender their post to the Union besiegers. He later received a promotion to Colonel in recognition of his exploits with his 10th Kentucky Partisan Rangers, a regiment he raised that often operated deep behind Federal lines in Kentucky. Johnson's men harassed Union supply lines and attacked isolated garrisons. In July 1862, in his Newburgh Raid, Johnson captured the town of Newburgh, Indiana, bluffing its sizable Union militia force into surrendering with only twelve of his men and a stovepipe mounted and a burnt black log on the running gears of an abandoned wagon to form a Quaker cannons. His capture Adam Rankin “ Stovepipe “ Johnson of the first Northern city to fall to the Confederates made Born: February 6, 1834 the news even in Europe, and Johnson's men thereafter Died: October 20, 1922 nicknamed him "Stovepipe". Buried: October 22, 1922 In 1863, Johnson assumed command of a brigade in the cavalry division of Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan. He TEXAS STATE CEMETERY AUSTIN, TEXAS reluctantly participated in Morgan's Raid, though he was Section: Republic Hill, Section 1 (C1) only supposed to raid on the Kentucky side of the river. Row: C Number:14 Following the Confederate disaster at the Battle of Buffington Island, Johnson led nearly 350 of his men Josephine Eastland Johnson across the rain-swollen Ohio River to safety. The Born: Aug. 31, 1845 remainder of Morgan's division was trapped on the Ohio Died: Sept. 11, 1923 side of the river and eventually forced to surrender.

HISTORICAL MARKER General ADAM R. JOHNSON

After a fruitful life of nearly eighty-nine years, Gen. Adam R. Johnson died at his home in Burnet, Texas, on September 20, 1922, and Texas paid tribute to him as one of her great men by having his body lie in state in the Senate Room of the Capitol at Austin; and in that city were gathered people from far and near, from stations high and low, to pay their last respects to comrade, friend, and fellow citizen. Every honor was Conferred upon him in those last hours, and he was laid to rest most fittingly. As a soldier of the Confederacy, General Johnson's career was unusual; as a citizen, his life was replete with endeavor despite the physical handicap of blindness. What he accomplished, both as soldier and citizen, carries us into the realms of romance in fact. In the Veteran has been given accounts of some of his exploits as a soldier, and these experiences he embodied in a book under the title of "The Partisan Rangers." His life after the war is told by his daughter in the article following, "The Blind Man's Town." To the last he was actively interested in things about him, and full of plans for promoting the progress of his county and Home County of Texas Confederate State. General Adam R. Johnson Adam R. Johnson was born in Henderson, Ky., February 8, 1834, and at the age of eighteen went to Burnet County, Texas, where he became a driver for Joined C. S. Army 1861. Cavalry scout with Gen. Nathan B. the Overland Mail. He also had experience in Forrest 1861-62. Commanded Partisan Rangers 1862-64 fighting Indians on the frontier, and in his En- executing daring exploits behind enemy lines in Kentucky area. Took Newburgh, Indiana with 12 men and stovepipe "cannon". counters with the wily Comanche’s he received Promoted Brigadier General June 1864. Escaped from Federal lessons in skill, patience, endurance, and strategy trap on Buffington's Island by swimming Ohio River with some which afterwards helped him to be first a daring of command. Blinded by gunshot wound and captured August 1864. Exchanged spring 1865. scout for Forrest, then a Colonel in the Confederate Army, and at last a brilliantly successful Brigadier General. His brigade was with Morgan when the Location. 30° 45.413′ N, 98° 13.595′ W. latter made his famous raid through Ohio, and he Marker is in Burnet, Texas, in Burnet County. was the only one of the general officers who escaped Marker is on South Pierce Street, on the right when traveling west. across the Ohio River with any part of his command Erected 1963 by the State of Texas. intact. (Marker Number 9721.) But the most brilliant work of General Johnson was within the borders of "Johnson's Confederacy," On the grounds of the Southwestern Kentucky, and along the Tennessee Burnet County Courthouse. and Ohio Rivers, where, cut off from all hope of assistance from the Confederate government, left to his own resourceful energies to supply himself with

men, arms, and munitions of war, he reigned supreme.

THE BLIND MAN'S TOWN By his wonderful will power and personal BY MARY JOHNSON POSEY. magnetism he held his men in perfect discipline, and not only defied the Federal Government to drive him In a sun-kissed valley sixty miles southwest of out, but, with his twelve or fifteen hundred men, Austin, Texas, lies Marble Falls, "the blind man's routed every force that was sent against him. It was town," one of the most picturesque little cities in the in the very moment of victory in one of these State. This thriving business center is like no other engagements that a ball from a volley fired by his town in the world, for it has the distinction of having own men entered his right eye and came out his left been built a man totally blind. temple, cutting out both eyes. He was captured and Sixty-two years ago the "Young Colonel" of the sent, a blind prisoner, to Fort Warren. After a time Overland Mail, Adam R. Johnson, stopped his horse he was exchanged, and on reaching Richmond was upon the banks of the Colorado River in Backbone called on by President Davis and members of his Valley. While the animal slaked his thirst in the cabinet, who urged him to accept papers honorably cooling waters, the man feasted his eyes upon the discharging him, which he politely declined, and, to scene about him and speculated upon the business their profound astonishment, asked for orders to opportunities offered by the wonderful advantages again take command of his old department, with the enormous horse power of the river at this place transportation for himself and men. These were afforded. Rugged bluffs bounded the stream, topped given him, and he was on his way to Kentucky with by the purple mystery of mountain cedar. A natural many of his old men and officers he had picked up at dam of marble spanned it just below him and formed Macon, Miss., when news of General Lee's a beautiful lake above. As the waters roared over surrender reached him, soon followed by that this dam in a churning mass of foam, he knew what of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. Bidding farewell to his a great and profitable resource nature had built here, men, he made his way to Texas. and which daily went to waste for the lack of some Blind, bereft of his property, his cause defeated, one to harness the river's power and turn it toward the country overrun with the carpetbagger of those the up building of Texas's manufacturing concerns. infamous reconstruction days, yet the magnificent And then he visualized a modern city upon the courage, the indomitable will, the tireless energy of river's bank in that sun-kissed valley, encircled by the man were unshaken; on the contrary, these towering, violet crowned hills, which lay like a rare qualities never shone so brightly as after the war. No jewel in its artistic setting. With the water power man has done more, few have done as much, toward harnessed to run factory and mill, business houses advancing the material interests of his State and erected from the magnificent red granite to be had in building up the waste places, especially in Burnet from the granite mountain north of the proposed County; and it is gratifying to know that this blind town site, and dwellings of the white stone to be had hero of the Confederacy reaped a substantial reward for the quarrying from the hills at hand, the streets for his life of effort. In Burnet County he had early graded and graveled with the granite gravel, there recognized the great water power lying dormant in could be no spot on earth more pleasing to the eye. the Colorado River. He dreamed of that de- This was his "dream city," a dream in which he velopment and the utilization of the great granite and always indulged when he crossed the Colorado at limestone outcroppings for building purposes. He this point; a dream which he hoped and prayed selected the site of Marble Falls as that of a great to some day make a reality. As he sat his horse that city, his interests started the town in its growth, and December day in the year 186—, a splendid figure thus it became known as "the blind man's town," the of virile manhood, fine face turned toward the object story of which is so interesting told by his daughter. of his intense desire, gray eyes alight with the General Johnson reared a family of six children, aggressive spirit of soldier forebears, he was the two sons and four daughters, all of whom bear the complete embodiment of the Texan of the early imprint of his wonderful training and his strong days, those strong, brave men who carved this personality. present great State from a raw, forbidding wilderness.

But as he dreamed his dream and built his castles You can picture that reunion. The young bride, fair, could he have lifted the veil enshrouding his just eighteen, who had followed the meteoric career future, his courageous heart would have failed him, of her hero husband with fear and pride; the long and hope would have died forever in his breast. days of waiting without news; the longer nights of He had no means of knowing that the building of anguish when she lay sleepless upon her bed and this town would be a story full of pathos and listened to the boom, boom of the big guns across tragedy, of heartbreak and sorrow, through which the river; and then the day when the paper bore in only his indomitable will of "do or die" would carry glaring headlines: "Gen. Adam R. Johnson is killed him to its realization. while leading a charge at Grubb's Crossroads, Ky." The last gun of the War between the States had Months pass. Then suddenly Uncle Ben been fired, the old guns stacked row on row, and the announces: shining swords returned forever to their scabbards. "Marse Gineral ain't dead, Littl' Missie!" The crimson battle flag had been reverently furled, and allegiance sworn to the Stars and Stripes by that Then picture the General as once more he holds "thin gray line" that is still sung of in song and story. his bride in his arms, she who had scarce been a wife In the midst of his men stood a tall, slender officer, until the call to arms took her lover husband from with the gold stars of a general on his collar, a her side. Now, as he felt her soft lips on his and bandage covering his eyes. The bandage told its own could not look upon the face most dear to him, for sad story, but the face was calm, the lips even the first time he realized what blindness meant. smiling, the broad shoulders squared in readiness to The rest of his life in the dark! Should little children meet life's vicissitudes. come to bless their union he would be denied seeing His men crowded about him to say a last good- their cunning smiles and dimpled cheeks. He drank by. With faces wet with tears and voices choked the bitter cup to the last dregs. with emotion, they pleaded with him to stay in The long, hazardous trip to Texas was made by Kentucky and accept the blue grass plantation they General Johnson and his wife overland. Often their wished to give him as well as to furnish funds for his way led through Indian-infested districts, and they maintenance as long as he lived. escaped only by a miracle. It seemed as if Prov- "It's all right, boys," he said over and over idence protected them from the bloody scalp knife, again. "I dedicated my life to the South the day I and they reached their destination at last safely. donned the gray. I have laid my eyes on the altar of I immediately after getting located, the General my country, but I shall not be the less a man because went about his plans for making his dream city a, of that fact. Mentally I shall see as well as you do. I reality. Broken in health and fortune, the process am going back to Texas and build a town upon the was necessarily slow. He purchased himself a tract Colorado River. Some day you will hear of 'the of land in Llano County, and, hiring cowboy blind man's town.'" assistants, erected a house and bought a few cattle And did they hear of this town which their and horses with money he had saved while driving beloved general declared so confidently that he the Overland Mail prior to the war. He raised stock would build? They most certainly did, and some of and horses, but Indians stole them as fast as they them live in it. were ready for the market. The cowboys were set to Every paper in the South had published the farming, and the rich river flats became fields of obituary of Adam R. Johnson, Brigadier General corn and cotton and cane. When the harvest season of the 10th Kentucky Partisan Rangers, and his came, the General had the grain loaded upon young bride for months had mourned him as dead wagons, and with his old gun across his knees rode while he languished in a Northern prison. Imagine with the men to Fort Worth to sell it. Many times her joyful surprise when a closed carriage drew up at they had close shaves with the Comanche’s, but the door of Wheatland, a Virginia plantation where always they managed to escape annihilation. she had been a guest during the war, and old Uncle And so the years pass. A nation is born from the Ben, the negro butler, shouted with joy as he rushed wreck and ruin of war. The devasted Southland out the door: "It's Marse Gineral, Littl' Missie! It's blooms once more. Old enmities are forgotten. Old Marse Gineral! "Praise God, he ain't dead! Uncle foes meet as friends beneath a common flag. The Ben shore is proud he ain't dead." gray and blue uniforms have long since been laid

away in moth-proof bags as relics for a future The hard knocks in the battle of life never soured generation. him. He enjoyed life, was cheerful and optimistic Down in Backbone Valley a town is in course always, and was at any time ready to help the other of construction. On every side the great hills rear fellow. their rugged outlines, fringed with mountain cedar. So, the General, though blind, "made good." The silvery Colorado follows graceful meanderings The "blind man's town" is a lasting monument to his past huge bluffs of white limestone, fern bordered efforts. He played the game, and always played to grottos, and large pecan groves, sweeping into the win. wider body of the lake where weeping willows bend above its glimmering mirror in endless rows of tender green. The sky above is of clearest azure, and wild plum blossoms spend their fragrance upon every passing breeze. Yet the founder of "the blind man's town" cannot see the beauty of the scene about him nor smell the perfume of the countless flowers spread in THE PARTISAN RANGERS OF THE a carpet about his feet. The long, sinewy hands, CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY however, feel the stones as they are laid, and with super-sensitive touch is almost given vision, for in his mind's eye every detail is distinct, as stone by stone the cotton mill takes shape until it stands a finished product. Then the shoe factory, the power plant, and the school building follow, each in turn. When these are complete a railroad becomes a necessity. The blind empire builder makes the long journey to Austin horseback, and, through influential friends, sets the railroad ball rolling. Just at this time, fortunately for General Johnson, the old Capitol was burned and the Legislature decided upon a state house to be built only of Texas stone. Above Marble Falls, "the blind man's town," covering some hundred acres of ground, is a huge Brigadier General granite mountain of exquisitely colored stone. Adam Rankin Johnson “Stovepipe” Johnson Nothing could be more fitting for the Texas State

Capitol. The owners offered the stone as a gift if Texas transportation could be secured. General Johnson Paid tribute to him as one of her great men by was once more equal to the emergency. He gave the having his Body Lie in State in the Senate Room railroad seven miles of right of way through his land of the Capitol Building at Austin as an inducement to begin laying the rails at once.

Months later a narrow gauge train made its way Birth: 8 Feb 1834 through the hills of Burnet County, carrying Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky, USA granite for the State Capitol and, later, for the jetties Death: 20 Oct 1922 (aged 88) at Galveston. Burnet, Burnet County, Texas, USA Fourteen kinds of marble abound at Marble Burial: Texas State Cemetery Falls, hence its name. Upon its bustling streets, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA Show Map almost any time of day, one could see the "Blind Plot Republic Hill Section 1 Row C Number 14 Man" walking about, feeling his way with a cane, Find-A-Grave Memorial ID 11000 the slender suppleness of his youth weighted down with his eighty-eight years of service. But he was the gamest "blind" man one could chance to meet.

OBITUARY……….

JOHNSON, General Adam Rankin (6 Feb 1834 - 20 Oct 1922)

Marble Falls Messenger, Oct 26, 1922 –

From Barry Caraway

General A. R. Johnson Is Dead

General Adam Rankin Johnson of Burnet, soldier, pioneer builder and progressive citizen of Texas for more than half a century, died at Burnet last Friday morning. He ate breakfast and was up and about the house when a fainting spell came over him. He was helped to his bed and died in a few minutes. General Johnson was a notable character during the Civil War and rendered valiant service to the cause that was dear to his soul. As a citizen of Burnet County he had a part in every thing that tended to advance development and enhance the wealth of the citizenship. The body was carried to Austin Saturday afternoon and placed in the Senate Chamber at the Capitol, where it was kept until the following afternoon and then buried in the Texas State Cemetery. Active pallbearers for the funeral were his five grandsons, Geo. E. Christian, Walton Christian, W. H. Badger, Jr. , Eastland Johnson and Brownlee Posey, and R. T. Badger. The honorary pallbearers were Governor Pat M. Neff, Governor Joseph D. Sayers, Judge W. M. Key, S. Brigadier General Adam Rankin Johnson L. Staples, Ike D. White, Mayor W. D. Yett, W. T. Wroe, “Stovepipe” Johnson Captain J. D. Fauntleroy, J. T. Robison, Captain William Walsh, W. E. Dozier, Guy A. Collett, H. A. Wroe, M. H. Reed, D. C. Reed, W. E. Long, Houghton Brownlee, Dr. Joe Wooten and Dr. C. H. Brownlee of Austin, and John S. Guthrie, Dr. A. Howell, Gus Jackson, James A. Stevens, and John H. Stapp of Burnet, and five inmates of the Confederate home here. The Daughters of the American Revolution, of which Mrs. Samuel Posey, one of the surviving children, is a member, attended the funeral in a body. Other children at the service which marked the last of the illustrious son of central Texas were Adam R. Johnson, Jr. , Mrs. W. H. Badger and Mrs. George Christian of Austin, and R. E. Johnson and Mrs. E. E. Guthrie of Burnet. The flags on the state house and the governor's mansion floated at half mast Saturday in mourning for the passing of the outstanding figure of the last half century in central Texas. General Johnson was 87 years old. He was born in Kentucky, but had been a resident of Texas since he was 18 years old. Although blinded as a result of a wound received during the civil war, he was active until the last in promoting the interests of this section of the state. He was a dreamer of big things,

but death cut him short before he had realized the The editor had been intimate with General one big dream of his life-that of harnessing the great, Johnson for almost a quarter of a century. We dormant power wasting in Texas streams and turning always admired him for his enterprise, his good it to use in industrial development. traits of character and for his frankness upon all On two occasions General Johnson, who had public issues. He was always outspoken on all issues been an independent scout for Bedford Forrest, went of a public nature. He was a man who had visions of behind the federal lines and recruited southern great importance. One of his ideals was to harness sympathizers into large military units. To show his the water power going to waste in the Colorado skill as a leader and to gain confidence of the men river. He was a friend to education. We never saw whom he hoped to enlist, the general with three him mad nor heard him use foul language during all privates attacked a garrison of 150 Yankees in the of the years that we have known him. heart of Henderson, Ky., by firing loads of buckshot General Johnson was a wonderful man, a brave into the soldiers at night from three sides. The soldier and a good citizen. The Messenger joins the surprised federals were thrown into a riot and fired many friends throughout Texas in extending volley after volley into surrounding houses for the condolence to those who mourn his death. remainder of the night. The Louisville Journal reported this affair later as a great battle in which the United States soldiers drove off a band of 300 guerillas after six hours of severe fighting. The nerve and valor showed in this exploit gained numbers of sympathizers to the rebel leader's banner. At the time of the 1850 census, Adam was a General Johnson was given the sobriquet of student in Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky. "stove pipe Johnson" during the war by an exploit At the time of the 1870 census, he was a stock even more daring than the first, at Newberg, Indiana. raiser living in Burnet, Burnet County, Texas. He The general crossed the river with eight picked men had real estate valued at $15,000 and personal assets in a skiff, left a lieutenant with 20 men on the bank of $5000. The census records that he was blind. and corralled a number of unarmed sympathizers on At the time of the 1880 census, he was a land the outskirts of the city as a "dummy" army. Wagon and collecting agent living in Burnet, Burnet wheels with stove pipes mounted on them were County, Texas. swung into place ready for action. On the 1900 census, he indicated that he was a When his "mobilization" had been quietly land agent. He was paying a mortgage on a farm. He completed, the general slipped into the heart of the lived in Burnet County, Texas. city, found the federal arsenal practically unmanned At the time of the 1910 census, he was a real and single-handed captured a sizeable store of arms estate agent living in Burnet County, Texas. He and ammunition. Before his plot had been owned his home free of mortgage. discovered he also succeeded in capturing some 80 At the time of the 1920 census, Adam and federal soldiers lolling in a hotel. Josephine were living with their married daughter His achievements were made spectacular by a Ethel and husband Samuel Guthrie in Burnet, Burnet daring that caused him to operate in the most County, Texas. He was retired. unexpected places-behind the lines where the federals had small garrisons and suspicioned no danger. On another trip he traveled 600 miles in enemy country recruiting sympathizers. In 1864 he was reported as having died from wounds in Trigg county, Ky. , and southern newspapers printed his obituary and paid his gallantry and bravery unstinted tribute. But more than a half century later he was Where is the Southern building and dreaming of an enterprise to furnish half of Texas with electrical power through the use Respect and Dignity of Today of prison labor and conservation of water power. 2019.

REMOVAL OF 2019 OFF TO GREAT START CONFEDERATE MARKERS st in and around the Texas Capitol 1 To be Removed, The Others Will Follow:

Texas Set to Remove Confederate Plaque from State Capitol

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott agreed Friday to remove a plaque in the state Capitol that rejects slavery as the underlying cause of the Civil War, bending after years of resistance by state Republican leaders in the face of Confederate monuments falling nationwide.

A unanimous vote by the State Preservation File photo shows, The Children of the Board, which Abbott chairs, ordered the removal of Confederacy Creed Plaque at the Capitol in the 60-year-old plaque that pledges to teach “the Austin, Texas, on Thursday August 17, 2017. truths of history,” adding that “one of the most

important of which is that the war between the states Texas will remove a 60-year-old Confederate was not a rebellion, nor was its underlying cause to Plaque in the state Capitol that rejects slavery as an sustain slavery.” underlying cause of the Civil War. The plaque is among nearly a dozen Confederate

markers in and around the Texas Capitol. It’s the The decision Friday Jan.11, 2019, follows first slated to come down since the deadly 2017 years of resistance from state Republican leaders to white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, re-move any of the roughly dozen Confederate that led to the removal of a string of Confederate markers in and around the Texas Capitol. monuments nationwide. Pressure mounted on Republican Gov. Greg Abbott But Abbott and state leaders resisted acting on after a black lawmaker from Dallas began publicly similar calls in Texas, and the governor made no condemning the plaque historically indefensible. comment after Friday’s vote. Texas Republicans had

been resolute after the Charlottesville rally that (Associated Press) tearing down Confederate markers wouldn’t change By Paul J. Weber | AP history, but pressure intensified after a black January 11, 2019 lawmaker from Dallas began condemning the plaque

that hangs near his Capitol office as historically indefensible. Dallas state Rep. Eric Johnson appeared unsure after Friday’s vote whether efforts to remove other Confederate symbols at the Texas Capitol would become easier.

“Why shouldn’t we be able to talk about the monuments on the Capitol grounds or anything else,” Johnson said. “I don’t think it’s a conversation we should be afraid to have, not in 2019 in America, in Texas.”

Texas Governor Rep. Greg Abbott, Caves In Continued pg 15…

Stickland Aims to Pass Constitutional Carry with HB 357

Known colloquially as “Constitutional Carry,” Stickland’s bill would allow Texans who can legally The State Preservation Board is governed by purchase and possess a firearm to carry openly or Texas’ three most powerful Republicans — concealed without a permit. Governor Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and newly chosen House Speaker Dennis Bonnen. By Destin Sensky| December 7, 2018 They quickly voted to remove the plaque with no discussion and left without speaking to about a Ardent supporters of the Second Amendment will dozen reporters in the room. None of their offices be able to easily follow the progress of constitutional immediately returned messages for comment. carry legislation in the 86th session of the Texas The only other lawmaker on the board was Legislature. Republican state Rep. Jeff Leach, who tweeted Recently, State Rep. Jonathan Stickland (R– after the meeting: “The plaque should never have Bedford) filed a bill to allow permitless carry of a been installed — and it has been there for far too firearm, a Republican Party of Texas Legislative long. We celebrate because today is the day that Priority, designating it House Bill 357. ends.” Conservatives and pro-gun Texans will recognize The plaque was first hung in 1959. It remained the bill number from the popular handgun caliber, mounted to wall next to a staircase in the Capitol .357 Magnum. after the vote, and it was unclear when it would be Known colloquially as “Constitutional Carry,” removed. Stickland’s bill would allow Texans who can legally Texas has taken down Confederate plaques purchase and possess a firearm to carry that firearm before. In 2000, then-Gov. George W. Bush’s openly or concealed without first obtaining an administration removed two Confederate memorial additional permit — eliminating the current plaques in the state Supreme Court building requirement to complete a course and a pay a fee. following pressure from the Texas NAACP. However, the proposed legislation would not But Texas Republican leaders since then have eliminate that process, allowing Texans to choose to stood firm as scrutiny over Confederate monuments obtain a License to Carry/Concealed Handgun intensified in recent years. Following the License for interstate reciprocity or other purposes. Charlottesville rally in August 2017, Abbott said In June, grassroots leaders from every corner of racism and hate-filled violence was never the state descended upon San Antonio for the 2018 acceptable, but that “tearing down monuments won’t Republican Party of Texas Convention, celebrating erase our nation’s past.” the party’s 150th anniversary. Before heading home, Two months later, Johnson and Abbott delegates voted to charge legislators with tackling discussed the plaque in a private meeting, which five legislative priorities in addition to a lengthy ended with both sides offering conflicting accounts platform of conservative reforms. of the conversation. Abbott’s office pushed back on Among those chosen was Constitutional Carry, Johnson saying the governor indicated support for the No. 1 priority heading out of the 2016 taking it down, but later said that “substantially Convention and the subject of a resolution in 2014. inaccurate historical statements” don’t belong on The resolution, passed before the adoption of a display at the Capitol. formal list of legislative priorities, called for amendments and legislation making the “[removal of] restrictions on Texans’ right to own and bear arms a legislative priority” for the 84th Texas Legislature.

LAWYER SUES DALLAS OVER

The most recent language, the 2018 charge to ROBERT E LEE STATUE legislators, reads, “Pass Constitutional Carry while ACCUSES CITY OF THROWING maintaining licensing as optional for reciprocity "TEMPER TANTRUM" purposes.” It passed with over 92 percent of attendees voting to make it a priority. Last session, Stickland authored and carried one version of constitutional carry which was ultimately left pending in the House Homeland Security & Public Safety Committee after receiving public testimony. An alternate bill was authored by State Rep. James White (R–Hillister) and four other legislators. It didn’t fare much better, collecting 26 co-authors and passing out of committee before dying in the Texas House Calendars Committee, chaired by State Rep. Todd Hunter (R–Corpus Christi). Stickland’s HB 357 looks more like the latter, leaving room for improvement when it comes to cementing the Second Amendment rights to By Kaley Johnson permitless carry for military-aged men and women January 24, 2019 05:09 PM, under the age of 21 and college students wishing to Updated January 24, 2019 05:25 PM secure their right to self-defense on college A Dallas man filed a lawsuit Thursday campuses. demanding that the city halt plans to remove the Chris McNutt, executive director of the granite base where the now-removed statue of grassroots organization Texas Gun Rights, says Robert E. Lee once stood. Texans in favor of constitutional carry can approach Warren Johnson, part of the group "Return Lee the upcoming 86th legislative session with to Lee Park," says in the suit that the city violated optimism. his free speech rights by illegally removing the Lee “I feel good about our chances of getting a and Young Soldier statue. Now, he is petitioning to recorded vote in 2019,” he said. “After aggressive stop the city from removing the plinth where Lee primary and general election accountability once stood. programs, there are more members of the Texas "This is a victory lap for people who are happy House on the record in support of constitutional about the development of 'let's take all the carry than ever before.” Confederate statues down,'" Warren Norred, With the first day of session just a few weeks away, the ability of law-abiding Texans to exercise Johnson's lawyer, said. "There are a small number of their Second Amendment rights more freely in the people who always want to take offense at Lone Star State may be determined in the months everything." ahead. Norred said he and Johnson filed the suit “Now, it’s just up to pro-gun Texans to continue Thursday to put a stop to the city's "political temper piling the pressure on their politicians representing tantrum." City officials were not immediately available for them in Austin to honor the promises and pro-gun pledges they made on the campaign trail,” McNutt comment Thursday. added. The city announced Tuesday a team was beginning to disassemble the plinth. The city

estimated the removal of the pink granite rock will Texas Scorecard seeks to educate and inspire cost $210,000. Texans to exercise effective citizenship and Norred said at least one person on the city advance self-governance. Texas Scorecard is a council wants the plinth removed to ensure that the publication of Empower Texans. Lee Statue can never be put back up.

Dallas , Texas Johnson and Norred say the city illegally took The Robert E. Lee Statue Removal down the statue because the city council did not Sept. 14, 2017 follow proper procedures. Norred is representing Johnson in another case that aims to have Lee's Statue put back up in the park. "You don't do this at the dead of night or skimp the rules," Norred said. "These are people who want to make a political point." The suit specifically names Mayor Mike Rawlings and members of the Dallas City Council. In the suit, Johnson says Dallas is "exercising viewpoint discrimination against works of art" and has "attributed disfavored political messages to the Monuments." The statue was unveiled by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936, and Norred said it represented the positive traits of the South, such as honor, patriotism and bravery. "People need to make peace with their past," he said. "It's been 150 years. People need to get over these things. We don't make rules based on the most unreasonable and sensitive person." In September 2017, a judge granted a temporary restraining order to stop the removal of the statue. At a hearing the next day, however, U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater dismissed the lawsuit, which was brought by a Dallas resident and the Sons of

Confederate Veterans. Norred said Johnson was not involved in the 2017 lawsuit. Johnson is part of a group dedicated to bringing back the Lee Statue. According to its website, "The statue was hastily taken as if by a gang of thieves from the citizens of Dallas in the dark of the coming night after a rogue city council ordered its removal under the guise of a still unproven and unsubstantiated emergency only to have the members of the council state just one week later

The Statue of the Confederate General Lee was removed from that they did not know what they were voting the Lee Park in September 2017 after deadly protests over the for." removal of a Lee Statue in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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