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its right on the Warrenton road toward the stone bridge, facing Bull Run. I was not
further engaged that day.

Captain Goldsborough and Lieutenant G. W. Booth (First Maryland), my volunteer
aides, were both wounded; and Doctor R. P. Johnson, also volunteer aide, had his horse
twice shot on two different days.

On the 6th day of September, 1862, as the army was crossing into Maryland,
General Jackson recommended Colonel Johnson for appointment to the rank of
Brigadier-General in the following letter :

NEAR LEESBURG, September 4, 1862.
General S. Cooper, A. and I. Gen., C. S. A.:

General:—I respectfully recommend that Colonel Bradley T. Johnson, late Colonel of
the First Maryland Regiment, be appointed Brigadier-General. While I was in command
at Harper's Ferry, in the early part of the war, Colonel Johnson left his home in Maryland
and entered our service, where he continued until his regiment was recently disbanded.
I regarded him as a promising officer when he first entered the army, and so fully did he
come up to my expectations, that when his regiment was disbanded I put him in command
of a brigade; and so ably did he discharge his duties in the recent battles near Bull Run
as to make it my duty, as well as pleasure, to recommend him for a Brigadier-Generalcy.
The brilliant service of his brigade in the engagement on Saturday last proved that it was
under a superior leader, whose spirit was partaken of by his command. When it is so
difficult to procure good general officers, J deem it due to the service not to permit an
opportunity for securing the services of one of rare merit to pass unimproved.
I am, General, your obedient servant,

T. J. JACKSON, Major-General.

And again, in a letter to General R. E. Lee recommending the promotion of
various officers, Colonel J. B. Gordon, Colonel Alfred Iverson, Colonel S. D.
Ramseur and E. F. Paxton, to be Brigadiers, and Brigadier Jubal A. Early
to be Major-General, General Jackson urges Colonel Johnson's promotion thus:

HEADQUARTERS VIRGINIA DISTRICT, October 25, 1862.
General R. E. Lee :

. . . . . In this number (of Brigadiers to be appointed) I would include Bradley
T. Johnson, late Colonel of the First Maryland Regiment. He commanded a brigade in
the engagements about Manassas, and won merited distinction. The First Virginia Bat-