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 TIIK WAR AND IT3 : tion t<> lils studies, from the moment he i ofc red the walla of this institution, was earnest sod devoted. How ' wis, we ' ' : i n k his after history Tory clearly shows. He graduated in 1829, in th< rith Qeneral Robert K. Lee, s circumstance a to render that year and that elass forever mei Weal Point. Qftdet Johnstoa was immediately assigi ■ with the rank of 1M Lieutenant, by brevet. There a oo war ty for distinction. Accordingly, we find I Lieu- tenant, appointed Assistant C f 8ul resigned the yi ted 1st 1 I '.cal Engineers. This rank he held when the conduct throughout that war wai od to draw the ey< I of the whol< I been pent, under the escort of a noisance of a region which lay ai havil like in boats, the party was waylaid by an killed or disabled at the first fire. The men were sinn. and were in imminent daoj Johnston took the command, and, by his cuing them. He laid hold of a • out in race of tin i i apoo him. T I i — i a panic mm of balls swept ai ouad. ; at /- of tbem struck tl which h< struck him immi d Imir. and ranged backward to tl hut not fracturing it <> r injuring the troops bad caught c " much esrried off th< and throaghout the Florida i ■ proa ■ . wai mad< ' ■ ■