This copy from the library of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston with his signature on the front flyleaf and again on title page. Joseph Eggleston Johnston (1807–1891) was a career U.S. Army officer, serving with distinction in the Mexican-American War and Seminole Wars, and was also one of the most senior general officers in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was the senior Confederate commander at the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861, and defended the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign. In 1864, he fought against Gen. Sherman in the Atlanta Campaign. He died of pneumonia after serving in inclement weather as a pallbearer at the funeral of his former adversary, and later friend, William T. Sherman.