Maj. Gen. Polk ignored the problems of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson when he took command and, after Johnston took command, at first refused to comply with Johnston's order to send an engineer, Lt. Joseph K. Dixon, to inspect the forts.

The String Quartet No. 4, perhaps Johnston's best-known composition has also been recorded by the Kronos Quartet, and the Kepler Quartet recorded it on a CD for the New World Records label, the first of a proposed series to document Johnston's entire cycle of string quartets.

Over the course of his first weeks in command, Beauregard sent to Confederate president Jefferson Davis various plans for an offensive against Union forces in northern Virginia, which usually involved coordination with Joseph E. Johnston's Army of the Shenandoah.

The first in 1788 rejected the Constitution in spite of Johnston's strong support.

Gyllenhaal's first lead role was in October Sky, Joe Johnston's 1999 adaptation of the Homer Hickam autobiography Rocket Boys, in which he portrayed a young man from West Virginia striving to win a science scholarship to avoid becoming a coal miner.

In 1998, a 438-page biography of Abe was published in Japan, and the first full-length book on Abe in English, William Johnston's Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star: A Woman, Sex, and Morality in Modern Japan, was published in 2005.

This is also the first album to feature the classic lineup of the Beach Boys ( Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Al Jardine ) since the mid 1960s with Bruce Johnston's mild departure from the group.

In April 1862, Polk commanded the First Corps of Albert Sidney Johnston's Army of Mississippi at the Battle of Shiloh and continued in that role for much of the rest of the year under Gen. Braxton Bragg, who replaced Beauregard, who had assumed command following the death of A. S. Johnston, killed on the first day at Shiloh.

Johnston's first experience with active volcanoes was a geophysical survey of Mount Augustine in Alaska in 1975.

Tom Johnston's " Another Park, Another Sunday " was chosen to be the album's first single.

The dignity of Johnston's official departure — the first such by a British administrator from a British possession in China — to a waiting Royal Navy vessel, was somewhat spoiled by his obvious irritation at a servant who had failed to pack properly all of his clothes.

Johnston's first start came in the Intercontinental Cup fixture against Brazilian side Flamengo.

Johnston's first Test wicket was Hemu Adhikari and he was not required to bat.

The Third Test was Johnston's first Test in front of his home crowd of the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Johnston's first visit to the state was welcomed by Lim and the Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Penang Abdul Rahman Abbas and walked around the Penang Heritage Trail together with his delegation.

After a series of engagements, Johnston's army fell back from the vicinity of Cassville-Kingston, first to Allatoona Pass and then to the Dallas area and entrenched.

Many women of the Gay Liberation movement felt frustrated at the domination of the movement by men and formed separate organisations ; some who felt gender differences between men and women could not be resolved developed " lesbian separatism ", influenced by writings such as Jill Johnston's 1973 book Lesbian Nation.

The grateful pygmies fed Johnston's curiosity about the animal mentioned in Stanley's book.

The Syracuse James Joyce Club holds an annual Bloomsday celebration at Johnston's BallyBay Pub in Syracuse, New York, at which large portions of the book are either read aloud, or presented as dramatizations by costumed performers.

Johnston's book Twilight in the Forbidden City ( 1934 ) describes his experiences in Beijing and was used as a source for Bernardo Bertolucci's film dramatization of Puyi's life The Last Emperor.

The 2001 book Producing Animation by Catherine Winder and Zahra Dowlatbadi ( Johnston's assistant on The Pagemaster ) recommends against making story changes during the animation process.

Johnston's next work titled Audrey was the 5th bestselling book in the U. S. in 1902, and Sir Mortimer serialized in the Harper's Monthly Magazine from November 1903 through April 1904 and published in 1904.

During the summer of 1992 following Johnston's departure, Shaw and Whitmore got traded away ; Kastelic was let go via free agency ; and Sidorkiewicz was lost to Ottawa in the expansion draft.

* Jennifer Johnston's novel How Many Miles to Babylon?

Although there were other Confederate armies that surrendered in the following weeks, such as Joseph E. Johnston's in North Carolina, this date was nevertheless symbolic of the end of the bloodiest war in American history, the end of the Confederate States of America, and the beginning of the slow process of Reconstruction.

He also produced a music video for Daniel Johnston's song " The Monster Inside of Me ", using footage from the Captain America animated series from the 1960s.

Beyond her native America, Johnston's novels were also very popular in Canada and in England.

Johnston's initial call upon the governors for more men did not result in many immediate recruits but Johnston had another, even bigger, problem since his force was seriously short of arms and ammunition even for the troops he had.

Johnston's tactics had so annoyed and confused Union Brig.

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman that he became somewhat unnerved, overestimated Johnston's forces, and had to be relieved by Brig.

Alerted by a Union reconnaissance on January 14, 1862, Johnston ordered Tilghman to fortify the high ground opposite Fort Henry, which Polk had failed to do despite Johnston's orders.

Gen. Beauregard arrived at Johnston's headquarters at Bowling Green on February 4, 1862 and was given overall command of Polk's force at the western end of Johnston's line at Columbus, Kentucky.

Johnston's army of 17, 000 men gave the Confederates a combined force of about 40, 000 to 44, 669 men at Corinth.

Johnston's army was finally in position within a mile or two of Grant's force, and undetected, by the evening of April 5, 1862.

It is possible that Johnston's duel in 1837 had caused nerve damage or numbness to his right leg and that he did not feel the wound to his leg as a result.

Harris and the other officers wrapped General Johnston's body in a blanket so as not to damage the troops ' morale with the sight of the dead general.

Therefore Johnston created a product known as ' Johnston's Fluid Beef ,' later called Bovril, to meet the needs of the French people and Napoleon III.

Most comic strip characters do not age throughout the strip's life, but in some strips, like Lynn Johnston's award-winning For Better or For Worse, the characters age as the years pass.

Although Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had surrendered four days earlier, Booth believed the war was not yet over because Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's army was still fighting the Union Army.

In 1862, the Union Army of the Potomac began its Peninsula Campaign against Richmond, Virginia, and Stuart's cavalry brigade assisted Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army as it withdrew up the Virginia Peninsula in the face of superior numbers.

) Out of print for decades, Arcade was reissued on compact disc in early 2007 by specialty label Wounded Bird Records, which is also the home of Southern Pacific's and Tom Johnston's catalogs.