Mrs. Bradley T. Johnson

Bradley T. Johnson (1829-1903) was born in Frederick, Maryland, son of Charles Worthington Johnson and Eleanor Murdock (Tyler) Johnson, grandson of Colonel Baker Tyler Johnson of the Continental Army. He took a B.A. at Princeton (1849), studied law and was admitted to the bar in Frederick in 1851. On June 25, 1851 he married Jane Claudia Saunders of North Carolina . Johnson served as Maryland State's Attorney, Chairman of the Maryland State Democratic Committee, and delegate to both National Conventions of 1860. He was instrumental in the formation of " The Maryland Line, " a regiment of Marylanders who chose to fight for the South, and was elected their Colonel in 1862. On June 28, 1864, he was commissioned brigadier general, partly on the strength of a long standing recommendation from General T. J. Jackson . In the last days of the war he commanded cavalry under Wade Hampton and Jubal Early . After the war, Johnson practiced law in Richmond and served in the Virginia Senate (1875-1879). From 1879 to 1890 he practiced in Baltimore . He died in Amelia, Virginia, in 1903. Among his published works are a life of Washington (1894) and A Memoir of the Life and Public Service of Joseph E. Johnston.

From the guide to the Bradley T. Johnson Papers, 1676-1937, (University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.)