GENERAL JOSEPH EGGLESTON JOHNSTON
This distinguished officer is a native of Prince Edward county, Virginia,
where he was born about the year 1808. His father was the late Judge Peter
Johnston, of the General Court of Virginia, distinguished alike at the bar and
on the bench, for sound practical sense and solid legal acquirements. He had
been a soldier in his youth-had been one of Greene's officers in his celebrated
campaign of 1781, in North and South Carolina-had borne himself honorably
and bravely at Guilford, Camden, Eutaw, and Ninety-Six-and retained, to the
day of his death, a predilection for his early profession, which not all his
subsequent success in a profession of a very different character, could entirely
obliterate. It is worthy of record, that he was the First Lieutenant of the
company in which the celebrated Peter Francisco served as a private, and that
the latter, scarcely less remarkable for his gigantic strength and undaunted
