A proper cavalry command in his front would have developed the fact that he had run into one division of Polk's Army of the Mississippi moving up from the direction of Mobile to join Johnston at Dalton.

He had to look for other prospects, other motives until more conclusive evidence pointing to Johnston came to light.

Madden, with his investigation centered on the fraud, said that tomorrow he would go to the Bronx bank through which Mrs. Meeker's checks to Johnston had cleared.

No one the Medfield police had questioned professed to know any more about him than about Johnston.

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.

He said that he had already told the police chief that he didn't know what insurance man had recommended Johnston to Mrs. Meeker.

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.

They had one son, Col. William Preston Johnston, who would also serve in the Confederate Army.

By September 18, Johnston had Brig.

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 could only keep up his defense by raids and other measures to make it appear he had larger forces than he did, a strategy that worked for several months.

Even before Johnston arrived in Tennessee, two forts had been started to defend the Tennessee River and the Cumberland River which provided avenues into the State from the north.

After Johnston asserted his authority, Polk ultimately had to allow Dixon to proceed.

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.

Johnston, who had little choice in allowing Floyd and Pillow to take charge at Fort Donelson on the basis of seniority after he ordered them to add their forces to the garrison, took the blame and suffered calls for his removal because a full explanation to the press and public would have exposed the weakness of the Confederate position.

Gen. Buell on February 25, 1862, two days after Johnston had to pull his forces out in order to avoid having them captured as well.

Johnston had various remaining military units scattered throughout his territory and retreating to the south to avoid being cut off.

Bragg at least calmed the nerves of Beauregard and Polk who had become agitated by their apparent dire situation in the face of numerically superior forces before the arrival of Johnston on March 24, 1862.

On March 29, 1862, Johnston officially took command of this combined force, which continued to use the Army of the Mississippi name under which it had been organized by Beauregard on March 5.

" 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.

Shortly after Lincoln's death, Gen. William T. Sherman reported he had, without consulting Washington, reached an armistice agreement with Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, an agreement which was unacceptable to the President and outraged Stanton, since it made no provision for emancipation of slaves or freedmen's rights.

* 1991 – Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm ( who had resigned ) as Premier of British Columbia.

Edwards hence defeated Johnston in the runoff, 584, 262 ( 50. 2 percent ) to 579, 774 ( 49. 8 percent ), less than one vote per precinct.

" Johnston described how corporations were paying less in taxes, even as individuals were paying more, with even well-known companies like Colgate-Palmolive, Compaq Computer and United Parcel Service engaging in " what the courts called shams.

Before being struck by a series of flows that, at their fastest, would have taken less than a minute to reach his position, Johnston managed to radio " Vancouver!

However, Johnston was less successful outside the Tests, ending the summer with 20 wickets at 21. 08.

A petition bearing the signatures of more than 1,700 Johnston taxpayers was presented to the town council last night as what is hoped will be the first step in obtaining a home rule charter for the town.

In the 1990s, Brel's widow said that Arnold Johnston, a professor at Western Michigan University, translated Brel's work more accurately than Blau and Shuman, and eventually gave Dr. Johnston exclusive rights to translate Brel's work into English.

Confederate ladies visiting Beauregard's army contributed silk material from their dresses to create the first three flags, for Beauregard, Johnston, and Earl Van Dorn ; thus, the first flags contained more feminine pink than martial red.

Coulson's first sheriff was none other than Liver-Eating Johnston.

Every August, 10 days are devoted to " Bill Johnston's Pirate Days ", a town-wide festival that features professional performers acting out pirate battles and a " siege " of the town by none-other than the " Pirate of the Thousand Islands ," Bill Johnston ( pirate ), whom the festival is named after.

Political scientists Richard Johnston and Byron Schafer have argued that this development was based more on economics than on race.

However, his main goal, " has been to reestablish just intonation as a viable part of our musical tradition " ( Bermel 1995 ) and " ultimately, what Johnston has done, more than any other composer with roots in the great American musical experiments of the ' 50's and ' 60's, is to translate those radical approaches to the nature of music into a music that is immediately apprehensible " ( Swed1995, quoted in Bush 1997 ).

Johnston left more than ten works, all in Latin.

Lucian Johnston writes, " Williams ' intention was to grant an infinitely greater religious liberty than then existed anywhere in the world outside of the Colony of Maryland ".

Sue Johnston claimed, on The One Show, that the special had been postponed rather than scrapped, and that the reason behind the delay was due to Ralf Little and Craig Cash's work on The Cafe proving more time consuming than initially thought.

Smith's businesses employ more than 600 people in Wake and Johnston Counties.

Political scientists Richard Johnston ( University of Pennsylvania ) and Byron Shafer ( University of Wisconsin ) have argued that this phenomenon had more to do with the economics than it had to do with race.

Shortly thereafter, Bragg was replaced as commander of the Army of Tennessee by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who was much better liked by both troops and high level subordinates than the sour Bragg.

Johnston, who felt the continued existence of his army was more important than protecting territory, tended to avoid battle with Sherman, executing a skillful withdrawal, which caused impatience among the Confederate leadership in Richmond, particularly Confederate President Jefferson Davis, who had never gotten on well with Johnston.

However, the army grew to more than 30, 000 by the time the Army of Tennessee took part in the Battle of Bentonville, March 19 – 21, in which Johnston attacked a wing of Sherman's army and met with initial success before the rest of Sherman's force arrived and forced a Confederate withdrawal.

However, it is not certain if An t-Sròn was the Gaelic name, as its usage cannot be traced back any further than Johnston ’ s Place-names of Scotland ( 1932 ).

is more likely to audit the poor than the rich, Johnston reported.