CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: QUITE A COMPLIMENT - Smith County, TX 

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Submitted by James H. Douglas   JimRedWing@aol.com  
14 October 2001 
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, pg.386. 

Victor M. Rose, in his history of Ross' Texas Brigade, in his book, 
pays the author of "Texans Who Wore the Gray," this compliment.  
Excuse him, but he feels it to be a part of the history of the war 
between the states.  This occured on the withdrawal of Gen, 
Beauregard from Corinth, Miss:

"Gen. Beauregard executed the movement of retiring from Corinth in a 
masterly manner.  Capt. S. S. Johnson, Co. K, of the Third, was on 
picket duty at the time of withdrawal, and, in the hurry of the 
movement, Col. Lane neglected to relieve them.  The army had proceded 
some miles when the absence of gallant old Co. K, was remarked.  The 
courier who bore Capt. Johnson the order to "fall back," found him, 
with his twenty-five Texans, boldly confronting Halleck's 100,000.  
Texans had many brave and daring sons to be proud of, but not one 
more deservedly so than Capt. Sid S. Johnson-now the modest, 
unassuming citizen of Tyler, Texas.