To begin the interview, he asked if Thayer, with more time to think it over, could add to what he had said the other day about Johnston.

Several signers affixed their names, it was learned, after being told that no tax increase would be possible without consent of the General Assembly and that a provision could be included in the charter to have the town take over the Johnston Sanitary District sewer system.

Johnston knew he could be trapped at Bowling Green if Fort Donelson fell, so he moved his force to Nashville, the capital of Tennessee and an increasingly important Confederate industrial center, beginning on February 11, 1862.

Johnston now planned to defeat the Union forces piecemeal before the various Union units in Kentucky and Tennessee under Grant with 40, 000 men at nearby Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, and the now Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell on his way from Nashville with 35, 000 men, could unite against him.

" Harris and other staff officers removed Johnston from his horse and carried him to a small ravine near the " Hornets Nest " and desperately tried to aid the general by trying to make a tourniquet for his leg wound, but little could be done by this point since he had already lost so much blood.

In 1858 the threat of Johnston ’ s Army marching down Emigration Canyon forced many settlers to pack up everything they could and move south until the situation could be resolved.

The reporter Ronald Kessler quoted Ferguson's two white sponsors, Margaret M. Johnston and Elizabeth E. Thompson, as saying that although Ferguson met the lineage requirements and could trace her ancestry to Jonah Gay, fellow DAR members told them that Ferguson was not wanted because she was black.

That mission ended before he could reach Johnston and Alexander returned to West Point, where he participated in a number of weapon experiments and worked as an assistant to Major Albert J. Myer, the first U. S. Army Signal Officer and the inventor of the code for " wig-wag " signal flags, or " aerial telegraphy.

Before McClellan could implement his plans, the Confederate forces under General Joseph E. Johnston withdrew from their positions before Washington, assuming new positions south of the Rappahannock, which completely nullified the Urbanna strategy.

Rhodes financed much of the British presence in Nyasaland and worked closely with Johnston and his successors ( Alfred Sharpe became one ) so he could use them as emissaries and their Nyasaland troops as enforcers, particularly in North-Eastern Rhodesia.

* In March 2005 a man also called about disturbing events on Kwajalein and Johnston Atoll about a weapon that only targeted certain people and could leave others unhurt.

In fact, Johnston's plan for Bentonville was for Hardee to engage one of Sherman's wings at Averasborough so that Johnston could deal with one wing piecemeal.

But, after his Test Match Special colleague Brian Johnston had nicknamed him " Sir Frederick ", there were those who thought he had really been knighted and many, particularly in his native county, who could not understand why he had not.

Before the Legislature could act, the Oklahoma Supreme Court intervened to the benefit of Johnston.

Among these are Willie Johnston, who could often be seen playing for Lochore before going on to play for Rangers and Scotland and Ian Porterfield, whose greatest moment of glory was scoring the winning goal for Sunderland in the FA Cup final.

General Joseph E. Johnston, who commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, resolved to attack the two ( of five ) corps that were south of the river and destroy them before the rest of the army could come to their aid.

The northern " lobe " of the plateau became known as " Johnston's Jolly ", after Colonel Johnston, commander of the divisional artillery, who positioned guns opposite it with which, in the vernacular of the day, he could " jolly up " the Ottomans on the plateau.

They also decided that, as proper court martial could not be constituted in Sydney, no further action should be taken against Johnston.

I knew that if I killed him no other woman could ever touch him again, so I killed him ....." In attempting to explain what distinguished Abe's case from over a dozen other similar cases in Japan, William Johnston suggests that it is this answer which captured the imagination of the nation.

Brian Johnston, who was as happy on the stage and working in light entertainment presentation as he was in the commentary box, was the master of this style which on occasion could lead to hilarity in the box, most notably on one occasion in August 1991 at The Oval when Agnew referred to Ian Botham's dismissal " hit wicket " as Botham " just couldn't quite get his leg over!

Under senatorial courtesy, Johnston could have blocked Stagg's confirmation but did not do so.

He instead supported a proposal to detach the First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia to reinforce Joseph E. Johnston in Mississippi so that he could break the Siege of Vicksburg.

Johnston slowly started laughing until he could commentate no more, leaving about a minute of broadcasting being just him in a fit of giggles.

Garth was prepared to be helpful in what he referred to with fastidious distaste as this unfortunate Johnston affair, which would not, he said more than once, have ever come about if Mrs. Meeker had only seen fit to consult Mr. Hohlbein or him about it.

As the Confederate government concentrated efforts on the units in the East, they gave Johnston only small numbers of reinforcements and minimal amounts of arms and material.

Others such as Michael Johnston and Noam Chomsky assert that classical liberalism as such can no longer exist in a modern day context as its principles were only relevant at the time its founding thinkers conceptualised them ; and that classical liberalism has grown into two divergent philosophies since the beginning of the twentieth century: social liberalism and market liberalism.

Jefferson Davis and Johnston did not adopt the name, but it is clear that the organization of units as of March 14 was the same organization that Lee received on June 1, and thus it is generally referred to today as the Army of Northern Virginia, even if that is correct only in retrospect.

Beauregard devised strategies to concentrate the forces of ( full ) General Joseph E. Johnston from the Shenandoah Valley with his own, aiming not only to defend his position, but to initiate an offensive against McDowell and Washington.

On October 7, 1948, Grayson's only child, daughter Patricia " Patty Cake " Kathryn Johnston was born.

After the surrender of Lee, and of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in North Carolina, the only significant Confederate field force remaining was in Texas under Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith.

As a result, the only recently rebuilt House of Commons chamber, though one of Dublin's finest locations, was broken up to form a number of small offices ; but primarily replaced by a magnificent cash office added by the architect employed to oversee the conversion, Francis Johnston, then the most prominent architect working in Ireland.

At the end of the three year Johnston era, only seven players remained from the Whalers active roster prior to Johnston taking over as General Manager.

On 25 May 2005, Kewell became the only Australian-born player ( Craig Johnston was born in South Africa ) to win the UEFA Champions League, playing in Liverpool's win over Milan in the 2005 Champions League Final on penalties.

The Legislature was only stopped when Oklahoma National Guard troops, under the orders of Johnston, prevented them from entering the Capitol.

The whole event only made Johnston more popular and powerful.

Johnston was left alone as the only strong Democratic figure in the state.

This troubled administration was relatively short-lived ; only a handful of Labour ministers supported MacDonald ’ s proposal of a coalition government, with Johnston and other Red Clydesiders among the strong opponents.

Johnston lost the 1991 provincial election badly, with the party only winning third-place status in the legislature.

As the Germans had shifted their interest to Tanganyika and Zanzibar where they had set posts, Sir Johnston therefore decided to meet with the only real threat, the Belgian administrator Captain Jacques, and together they agreed on a boundary that would be a line running from the northern tip end of Lake Mweru where the Lualaba leaves Lake Mweru to Cape Akalunga on Lake Tanganyika.

When the remaining veterans of the Army of Tennessee arrived in North Carolina in March and reported to Johnston, it mustered only 4, 500 men.

Johnston claimed not to have noticed saying anything odd during the match, and that he was only alerted to his gaffe by a letter from " a lady " named " Miss Mainpiece ".

Johnston said to his wife that he felt when he killed off Scratch or when Scratch died he wouldn't last too long afterwards, and he died of colon cancer on March 25, 2001, only a month after being diagnosed.

Ellender died during the campaign, and Johnston, with powerful name identification stemming from his gubernatorial bid only months earlier, won the primary easily.

Johnston was the only member of either house of Congress to vote against a 1995 resolution to allow Taiwan's president Lee Teng-hui to visit the United States.

( Johnston confirmed that his only performance on the released album is as a background vocalist on " Marcella.