Johnston remained on his plantation after the war until he was appointed by President Taylor to the U. S. Army as a major and was made a paymaster in December 1849.

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.

Upon hearing that Sherman's men were advancing on corduroy roads through the Salkehatchie swamps at a rate of a dozen miles per day, Johnston " made up his mind that there had been no such army in existence since the days of Julius Caesar.

Bligh summoned the officers to Government House to answer charges made by the judge and he informed Major Johnston that he considered the action of the officers of the Corps to be treasonable.

Governor Macquarie reinstated all the officials who had been sacked by Johnston and Macarthur and cancelled all land and stock grants that had been made since Bligh's deposition, though to calm things down he made grants that he thought appropriate and prevented any revenge.

Animator Ollie Johnston recalled that young people " thought we were on a trip when we made it ... every time we'd go to talk to a school or something, they'd ask us what we were on.

( He was promoted on July 21 to be one of the eventual seven full generals in the Confederate Army ; his date of rank made him the fifth most senior general, behind Samuel Cooper, Albert Sidney Johnston, Robert E. Lee, and Joseph E.

These commanders had been made aware that Generals Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston had already capitulated and that continued hostilities would prove pointless.

Thus was formed a new municipality, Villa de la Santísima Trinidad de la Libertad translated “ Village of the Most Holy Trinity of Liberty .” Hugh B. Johnston was made alcalde.

In them, Johnston forms melodies based on an " otonal " eight-note just-intonation scale made from the 8th through 15th partials of the harmonic series ) or its " utonal " inversion.

Alarm over the presence of the Portuguese Serpa Pinto triggered the Anglo-Portuguese Crisis, which ended with Johnston having Nyasaland ( today's Malawi ) declared the British Central Africa Protectorate, and he was made its first commissioner in 1891.

At the trade deadline, the Whalers first year General Manager Eddie Johnston made the first in a series of destructive trades by sending franchise goaltender Mike Liut to the Washington Capitals for center Yvon Corriveau.

The trades that Johnston made, especially the Ron Francis trade, proved to be disastrous for the Whalers since the players acquired did not pan out to expectations, leaving the Whalers depleted of talent and costing them substantial goodwill in Hartford.

The links below show all of the trades and transactions Ed Johnston made as the General Manager of the Whalers.

The whole event only made Johnston more popular and powerful.

The long association of Mr. Johnston with the Society as a Delegate and a Member of the Board, and his outstanding qualities which have made him so prominent a figure in the public life of this country, singles him out as the one person to assist the General Manager and ultimately to fill as adequately as it is possible the office of General Manager.

Johnston also stated that it might not necessarily be made as a Christmas special, but may air earlier in the year.

The clock was made by Gillett and Bland ( predecessor of Gillett and Johnston ) and was originally wound using hydraulic power supplied by Manchester Hydraulic Power.

Johnston challenged those who made that claim, such as the American Farm Bureau Federation, to cite an example of a farm that was lost because of estate taxes, and they were unable to do so.

In the series he made 562 runs at 62. 44, against fierce fast bowling from Lindwall, Miller and Bill Johnston.

In 1824 architect Francis Johnston was made president.

In his memory The Terry C. Johnston Memorial Scholarship Fund was established at Montana State University – Billings, as well as donations were made to the Custer Battlefield Preservation Committee, and the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance.

Many Republicans blamed John Treen's lackluster campaign in that race for Duke's emergence as a major player in the 1990 U. S. Senate race, when he made a noticeable bid against incumbent Johnston, and in the 1991 gubernatorial election, when Duke secured a general election berth.

No Union soldiers were observed to have ever gotten behind Johnston during the fatal charge, while it is known that many Confederates were firing at the Union lines while Johnston charged well in advance of his soldiers.

On September 13, 1861, in view of the decision of the Kentucky legislature to side with the Union after the occupation of Columbus by Polk, Johnston ordered Brig.

Johnston also reinforced Fort Donelson with 12, 000 more men, including those under Floyd and Pillow, a curious decision in view of his thought that the Union gunboats alone might be able to take the fort.

Elizabeth's teaching career was based on daughter Kate's decision not to pursue a career in education, but provided Johnston with a chance to imagine how that may have turned out.

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In 2012, Rich Johnston of Bleeding Cool said of DC Comics ' decision to assign Liefeld the co-scripting and drawing duties on three of their flagging New 52 titles, " Rob does have a habit, of course, of pulling out sales and attention like a rabbit out of a hat.

Kenny Dalglish was livid but later relented and gave his blessing to Johnston when he found out the reason for the player's decision.

During the campaign, Johnston, now Governor of South Carolina, was strongly supportive of Roosevelt's foreign policy, but was now lukewarm towards the New Deal and was able to the snatch the " flag of white supremacy " from Smith by boasting how he countered the US Supreme Court's recent Smith v. Allwright decision, which ruled that racial segregation in state primaries was unconstitutional, by passing a series of laws making the South Carolina Democratic Party a private club which could keep blacks from voting in the state's primary.

During that second term, Johnston focused more on preserving racial segregation and signed laws which attempted to circumvent the Smith v. Allwright decision, which declared racially segregated primaries to be unconstitutional, by allowing political parties in the state to operate as private organizations separate from state control and beyond the reach of the US Supreme Court.

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

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.

Gen. Felix Huston, challenging each other for the command of the Texas Army ; Johnston refused to fire on Huston and lost the position after he was wounded in the pelvis.

On September 10, 1861, Johnston was assigned to command the huge area of the Confederacy west of the Allegheny Mountains, except for coastal areas.

After his appointment, Johnston immediately headed for his new territory.

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.

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.

" 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 the 2006 edition of The World Factbook, the entries for Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Johnston Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and the Midway Islands were merged into a new United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges entry.

In Scotland's first referendum on devolution, held in March 1979, he campaigned for a " Yes " vote alongside the Conservative Alick Buchanan-Smith and the Liberal Russell Johnston.

Bourland and Johnston edited a third book E-Prime III: a third anthology: 1997, Concord, California: International Society for General Semantics.

* Johnston Gym — Built in 1911, Johnston Gym is primarily used for music and band purposes.

George Bernard Shaw's praise for Johnston Forbes-Robertson's performance contains a sideswipe at Irving: " The story of the play was perfectly intelligible, and quite took the attention of the audience off the principal actor at moments.

In World War II, Prime Minister Winston Churchill appointed Labour politician Tom Johnston as Secretary of State for Scotland in February 1941 ; he controlled Scottish affairs until the war ended.

Some authorities claim he was the inspiration for Johnston McCulley's Zorro, though the extent to which this may be true is disputed.

The Johnston Atoll area was used during the 1950s and 1960s as an American nuclear weapons test site — for both above-ground and underground nuclear tests.

Safeguard C was the basis for maintaining Johnston Atoll as a " ready to test " above-ground nuclear testing site should atmospheric nuclear testing ever be deemed to be necessary again.

In 1993, Congress appropriated no funds for the Johnston Atoll " Safeguard C " mission, bringing it to an end.

There were no official license plates issued for use on Johnston Atoll.

Besides his studio work, Torrence became a graphic artist starting his own company, Kittyhawk Graphics, and designing and creating album covers and logos for other musicians and recording artists, including Harry Nilsson, Steve Martin, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Dennis Wilson, Bruce Johnston, The Beach Boys, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Linda Ronstadt, Canned Heat, The Ventures and many others.

Modern ideas in art appeared in commercials and logos, the famous London Underground logo, designed by Edward Johnston in 1919, being an early example of the need for clear, easily recognizable and memorable visual symbols.