{⋆★⋆} BG Johnson, Bradley Tyler

Bradley Tyler Johnson​

Born: September 29, 1829

Birthplace: Frederick, Maryland

Father: Charles Worthington Johnson 1805 – 1833

Mother: Eleanor Murdoch Tyler 1810 – 1850

Wife: Jane Claudia Sanders 1832 – 1899

(Buried: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland)​

Children:

Bradley Saunders Johnson 1856 – 1917​

(Buried: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland)​

Education:

1849: Graduated from College of New Jersey​

Occupation before War:

Attorney in Baltimore, Maryland​

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Maryland State Attorney​

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Chairman of Maryland State Democratic Committee​

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1860: Maryland Delegate to Democratic Party Convention​

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1860: Supporter of John C. Breckinridge for President​

Civil War Career:

1861: Assisted in recruiting the 1st​ Maryland C.S.A. Infantry Regiment​

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1861 – 1862: Major of 1st​ Maryland Infantry Regiment​

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1861: Served in the First Battle of Manassas, Virginia​

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1862 – 1864: Colonel of 1st​ Maryland Infantry Regiment​

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1862: Served in the Seven Days Campaign in Virginia​

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1862: Served in the Battle of Front Royal, Virginia​

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1862: Served in the First Battle of Winchester, Virginia​

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1862: Served in the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Virginia​

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1862: Brigade Commander at Second Battle of Manassas, Virginia​

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1864 – 1865: Brigadier General of Confederate Army, Infantry​

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1864: Served in Early's Raid on Washington, D.C.​

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1864: Attempted to free Confederate Prisoners at Point Lookout​

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1864: One of the executers for burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania​

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1864: Served in the Battle of Moorefield, West Virginia​

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1864: Participated in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign​

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Commandant of Confederate Prison in Salisbury, North Carolina

Occupation after War:

1865 – 1879: Attorney in Richmond, Virginia​

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1875 – 1877: Virginia State Senator​

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Attorney in Baltimore, Maryland​

Died: October 5, 1903

Place of Death: Amelia, Virginia

Cause of Death: Bright's disease

Age at time of Death: 74 years old

Burial Place: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland

 

[Tom Elmore]

He also attended Harvard College's Law School in 1851. Johnson took command of a brigade of Virginians at Gettysburg on July 4, having arrived after the heavy fighting was over. He replaced the wounded John M. Jones.

 

[Pollaco]

After the war he wrote biographies on both George Washington and Joseph E. Johnston.

 

[Pollaco]

He was involved in fighting Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley and participated in the battles of 3rd Winchester, Fisher's Hill,and Cedar Creek as well as any others mentioned in this biography.

 

[Bruce Vail]

The section of Loudon Park cemetery where he is buried is known as 'Confederate Hill' becuse of the numerous Confederate vets buried there. Originally the bodies of POWs who had died while in US custody at the Fort McHenry camp were moved to the site, and later Baltimore-area Confederate veterans were able to choose to be buried there. Confederate Memorial Day ceremonies are conducted there annually.

 

[Luke Freet]

It is weird, how most bios seem to drop off between the disbanding of the 1st Regiment and his promotion to Brigadier in 1864.
What was he doing during that period?

 

[Pollaco]

It is weird, how most bios seem to drop off between the disbanding of the 1st Regiment and his promotion to Brigadier in 1864.
What was he doing during that period?

Probably recovering from a wound he received at Antietam, how severe was it?

 

[Bruce Vail]

Saw this item on the net that states Johnson was charged with Treason by the state of Maryland in 1865. Later pardoned by President Andrew Johnson.

Maryland former Confederate General Bradley T. Johnson arrested in Baltimore on a charge of treason | House Divided

hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu

 

[gentlemanrob]

Happy Birthday (September 29th) Brig. General Bradley T. Johnson! Salutes remembering General Johnson on his birthday.

 

[Pollaco]

At the beginning of the war Johnson turned down a Lt. Colonel's commission in a Virginia Regiment because he believed his strongest obligation was to Maryland. He raised and equipped a company at his own expense and took an active part in organizing the 1st Maryland Infantry. He became a Major (later colonel) in this regiment.

 

[Pollaco]

Col. Johnson's 1st Maryland met the 1st Regiment Maryland Volunteer Infantry (USA unit) on May 23, 1862 at Front Royal. This was the only time in U.S. history that two regiments with the same number from the same state engaged each other in battle.

 

[Pollaco]

Lt. Col.Thomas S.Garnett was wounded at the battle of Cedar Mountain but did not turn over command of the 2nd Brigade to Johnson until after the battle. It was this brigade that he led at 2nd Bull Run. One biography states that he was wounded at Antietam leading this same brigade.

 

[MarylandLine]

At the beginning of the war Johnson turned down a Lt. Colonel's commission in a Virginia Regiment because he believed his strongest obligation was to Maryland. He raised and equipped a company at his own expense and took an active part in organizing the 1st Maryland Infantry. He became a Major (later colonel) in this regiment.

Actually Johnson's wife (the daughter of North Carolina's AG) played a crucial role in outfitting the men of the 1st Maryland. She visited North Carolina to ask for assistance for her husband's men.




"Anxious to serve the South and to ensure that Maryland would be represented by its own sons in their own unit rather than have them absorbed into other units, the leaders faced a serious crisis. The men lacked uniforms, arms, and ammunition. Jane Saunders Johnson suggested that she be permitted to go to Raleigh to seek assistance. Her father's influence and her own acquaintance with leaders of the state might be effective, it was felt. Colonel Thomas J. Jackson, commanding officer, approved the plan, provided transportation, and assigned a captain and a lieutenant to escort her along a route that led to Winchester, Strasburg, Manassas Junction, and Richmond, and from Richmond to Raleigh. Leaving camp on 24 May 1861, they found the way blocked by Federal troops at Alexandria and had to change their route. Nevertheless, they reached Raleigh on the night of the twenty-seventh. The next morning, accompanied by her father, she called on Governor John W. Ellis to explain her purpose.
At the same time the Secession Convention was still in session, and delegates were inspired by word of the patriotism of so many Maryland men. It was also said that they greeted the news of Jane Saunders Johnson's mission with enthusiasm. Addressing the convention, former Congressman Kenneth Rayner said: "If great events produce great men—so in the scene before us we have proof that great events produce great women. . . . One of our own daughters, raised in the lap of luxury, blessed with the enjoyment of all the elements of elegance and ease, had quit her peaceful home, followed her husband to the camp, and leaving him in that camp, has come to the home of her childhood to seek aid for him and his comrades, not because he is her husband, but because he is fighting the battles of his country, against a tyrant."
Governor Ellis instructed one of his aides, Lieutenant Alexander W. Lawrence, an ordnance officer from Raleigh and undoubtedly known to Mrs. Johnson as they were the same age, to provide her with 500 rifles, 10,000 cartridges, 3,500 caps, and other "necessary equipments." Not lingering to enjoy a visit, Mrs. Johnson saw the equipment loaded in a boxcar and on the twenty-ninth boarded the car, took a seat atop the wooden box containing the rifles, and began the return trip. Word of her deed spread, and she was greeted by an "ovation" at every stop. The governor of Virginia gave her a quantity of camp kettles, hatchets, axes, and other equipment, and with money handed to her along the way she was able to order 41 tents in Richmond. Arriving in camp on 3 June, the equipment was promptly put to use by the troops."