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Major Johnson, riding at the left of his regiment, as was his place, slipped off his horse and ran up to the balcony for a good-bye. She had provided a pint bottle of champagne, and together they drank success to the young soldiers first battle.

As soon as the army passed, she, with her little boy, a lad of five years who had come with her from home and who never left her during the ensuing four years, were driven by Mr. Herbert, a Marylander, brother of Capt. Jas. R. Herbert, rapidly down to Strasburgh, where she and her boy took the train and reached Manassas Junction on the afternoon of the 19th July, while the battle of Morton's Ford was raging.

The road was covered with trains bringing troops up to Beauregard, so she was detained all night, sleeping in one of the staff tents of the general commanding, with her boy stretched across the tent door.

The next morning, July 20, she arrived in Richmond. She bore in the bosom of her dress confidential dispatches from General Joseph E. Johnston, which he had committed to her, in person, with strict injunctions to deliver them only to President Davis himself.

This she did, declining the urgent requests of the Secretary of War to give them to him, but she obeyed orders and would give them to no one but Mr. Davis.

During the summer she returned to Fairfax Court House where the army was lying, and took charge of the sick of the regiment, which was suffering from camp sickness, usual to young soldiers. She took possession of a church in the neighborhood, an old wooden structure, and fitted it up as a hospital, where, assisted by Drs. Gaillard and Johnson, the surgeons of the regiment, she tended the sick that whole summer, and without doubt saved some lives.

When Beauregard moved to the Potomac, and occupied the lines of Mason's and Munson's Hills, within sight of the Capitol at Washington, she and her escort, her little boy, were frequent visitors to the picket line, and he attracted the attention and elicited the commendation of the Commanding Generals, Johnston and Beauregard, for the gallant way in which he rode with his father in front of the Yankee picket line.

When the army fell back to Centreville, and then to Manassas Junction, Mrs. Johnson accompanied it, and spent the winter of 1861-62 in cantonments with her husband and the regiment.

She fell back with the army in March, 1862, and when it moved

from Brandy Station, part to the Peninsula, and part to join Jackson in the Valley, she went to her father's house at Raleigh, N. C., so she did not participate in the Valley campaign.

Directly after the seven days' battle she reported for duty and took position at Charlottesville, where the regiment had been ordered by General Jackson to recruit.

The Valley campaign and the seven days' battles had reduced it from 720 to less than 200. In August, 1862, the regiment was mustered out of service, to the great indignation of officers and men. The pretext of the War Department was that it was for the purpose of allowing the Marylanders to reorganize themselves, and thus strengthen the Maryland line. The truth and fact was, that a number of prominent Marylanders had rendezvoused in Richmond, and wanted a new organization and new deal, whereby they might draw the highest prizes-ignoring the services of officers and men who had won distinction on twenty pitched battle fields.

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On being mustered out the men by a unanimous vote, amid tears and sobs, presented their little flag to Mrs. Johnson. This Bucktail flag, aecorated with a captured Bucktail, and honored by a special order by General Ewell, Commander of Division. The Bucktail Flag" lay on her bier when she was carried to her grave in Loudoun Park by her old soldiers, and she left it in her will as an heirloom to her son and grandson, and their remotest posterity. This is the corespondence:

TO MRS. BRADLEY T. JOHNSON,

Dear Madam,-Upon the occasion of the disbandment of the Ist Md. Reg't on the 17th of Aug., we the undersigned, members of the above named Reg't, do unanimously agree and resolve to present to you, as one true and truly worthy to receive it, Our Flag, which has been gallantly and victoriously borne over many a bloody and hard fought field, and under whose sacred folds Maryland's sons have fought and bled in a holy cause.

Our attachment for our Flag is undying, and now that circumstances have rendered it necessary that our organization should no longer exist, we place in your hands as a testimonial of our regard and esteem, our little Flag, which is dear to us all.

For the Regiment:
ALBERT TOLSON, Serg't Co. C.
RICHARD L. BROWN, Serg't Co.-
GEO. TYLER, Serg't Co. A.
Geo. W. WENTWORTH, Serg. Co. B.

F. FARR, Serg't Co. F.

W. J. WRANEK, Serg't Co. D.
CALVIN MYERS, Serg't Co. E.
C. N. FERRIOT, Serg't Co. G.

EDWIN SELVAGE, Color Bearer.

TO EDWIN SELVAGE, Color Bearer, and the 1st Maryland Regiment:

Gentlemen,-This emblem of your courage and State pride, I have received. The trust that you have reposed in me shall be sacredly guarded, and only to the same organization, with officers and men, will I ever yield it.

I take this means of assuring you all that, as I have been with you in the trials you have undergone in the South, so will I ever be, and no member of the First Maryland Regiment will ever want a friend while I live.

Mrs. BRADLEY T. JOHNSON.

When the Maryland Line was assembled at Hanover Junction under command of Colonel Bradley T. Johnson, Mrs. Johnson spent the winter of 1863-64 with them. She called for volunteers from the command, and with them built a commodious and beautiful church. The roof was of tent flies, and there was a big fireplace at each side, but they had gallery and choir loft, and services every Sunday.

She went to Richmond and procured from Bishop McGill, Roman Catholic Bishop of Virginia, the service of a priest, who regularly celebrated Holy Mass once a month, a large per cent. of the command being Roman Catholics from southern Maryland, and the other Sundays services were held by the chaplain of the Line. One night the Glee Club came over to serenade her. Marylanders are a bright and joyous race and they always had a Glee Club, and she came out among them, and said: "Boys, you are the very men I want. You'd make a first-class choir for my church," and they did, and the choir of the Maryland line had a great reputation all around Hanover, and as far off as Richmond. People from the country and the city would come to see and hear the services in Mrs. Johnson's church.

After the war General and Mrs. Johnson resided in Richmond from 1866 to 1879, where she was active and jealous in charitable work. She was President for years of the Hospital for Women, which accomplished good work among unfortunate women.

In 1879 they returned to Maryland and took up their residence in Baltimore. There she at once took position in works of benevolence and charity. She became President of the Hospital for the Women of Maryland, and was efficient in establishing that institution on a firm and prosperous basis.

In the course of time she became ill, and elected to go to her own hospital for treatment.

While there she was elected an honorary member of the Association of the Maryland Line—a society of which her husband was president.

On March 9, 1894, the governors of the Maryland Line presented her with a Maryland badge and an appropriate letter. The badge is a gold Maryland cross set in pearls and garnets, suspended by a ribbon of orange and black.

The letter is as follows:

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'The survivors of the Maryland Line of the Army of Northern Virginia recall with pride and gratitude the loving, devoted and important service performed for them by Mrs. Bradley T. Johnson.

"In May, 1861, she armed, clothed, uniformed and equipped with tents and camp equipage the First Maryland regiment and during the trying summer of that year nursed and tended with the devotion of a mother and the affection of a sister, our comrades, sick and dying, from typhoid and other diseases of the young soldier.

"In 1863-64, when the Maryland Line was at Hanover Junction, she collected a library of good, instructive books for the use of the command, and encouraged the men to build, under her directions, a chapel, which was used alike by catholic and protestant, without regard to sect.

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Remembering these benign episodes in her, and our lives, our affection for her brightens with advancing years, and now that she is suffering on a bed of sickness, we extend to her our sympathies, we assure her of our love and esteem, and we pray the good God to restore her to us and to her family for many years of youthfulness and honor.

"As a slight evidenee of our esteem and endless gratitude, the Board of Governors have unanimously elected Mrs. Bradley T. Johnson to honorary membership in the Association of the Maryland Line, and desire her acceptance of the accompanying memento of their affection and love.

GEORGE W. BOOTH,
GEORGE R. GAITHER,

JAMES L. AUBREY,

DANIEL L. THOMAS,

JAMES R. WHeeler,

JOHN F. HAYDEN,

JOHN W. TORSCH,

CHARLES H. CLAIBORNE,
MARK O. SHRIVER,

R. JAMES STINSON,

WILLIAM T. THELIN,
AUGUST SIMON,

Board of Governors, Association of the Maryland

Line, Baltimore, March 6, 1894."

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