CDV PERIOD LITHOGRAPH OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL BRADLEY T. JOHNSON

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Civil War period lithograph of Johnson in Confederate uniform. Printed caption on bottom reads “GEN. BRADLEY JOHNSTON” the last name being obviously misspelled by adding a “T.”

Image has moderate surface dirt throughout and the contrast is a little light around the hairline.

Reverse is covered with old glue residue which has discolored the paper and almost all but obliterated any photographer’s imprint.

Bradley Tyler Johnson was born in Frederick City, Maryland. He graduated from Princeton in 1849, read law with William Ross of Frederick, and finished his legal degree at Harvard. He was admitted to the bar in 1851.

Johnson was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore in 1860 and joined the majority of his delegation when they withdrew from the convention and united with the Southern wing of the party, which supported Breckenridge and Lane.

When the Civil War began, Johnson organized and equipped a company at his own expense, and he took an active part in forming the 1st Maryland Infantry, CSA, of which he became major and subsequently colonel, meanwhile declining a lieutenant colonel's commission in a Virginia regiment because of his belief that his strongest obligation was to his own state.

By early May 1861 around 500 Marylanders had begun to assemble at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, under Johnson's command, forming 8 companies of Maryland infantry. Johnson preferred not to join the newly forming Virginia regiments, arguing that Marylanders should fight under their own flag. However, other former members of the Maryland militia did not agree; many members of the elite Maryland Guard and Independent Greys from Baltimore went to Richmond, where they were mustered into the service of Virginia.

Johnson was eventually made Colonel of the 1st Maryland Infantry and led them at Front Royal and Winchester.

Johnson saw service in the Seven Days Battles in 1862 and was advanced to the rank of brigadier general of cavalry in 1864.

As commander of the POW camp at Salisbury, N.C., he used his influence to lessen the suffering among the prisoners of war and finally obtained their parole.

After the war, Johnson practiced law in Richmond until 1879, when he moved to Baltimore. After the death of his wife, he moved to Amelia, Virginia, where he died on October 5,1903. His remains were interred back in Baltimore in Loudon Park Cemetery.

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