Age 82 years, 4 months. Buried May 14, 1909.
Major and Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers.
Patent attorney, Johnson & Johnson.
Private Secretary to Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. He helped coordinate the War Department Telegraph Office which revolutionized military communications. He was known as the Custodian of Military Telegrams. He was employed in Stanton's patent law office before the war.
Lincoln In The Telegraph Office: Recollections Of The United States Military Telegraph Corps During The Civil War
Lincoln's daily visits to the telegraph office were therefore greatly relished by him and of course were highly prized by the cipher operators. He would there relax from the strain and care ever present at the White House and while waiting for fresh dispatches or while they were being deciphered, would make running comments or tell his inimitable stories. Outside the members of his cabinet and his private secretaries none were brought into closer or more confidential relations with Lincoln than the cipher operators. Of his official family not one now survives and of the leading generals who met Lincoln in person, there remain only Howard, Sickles, and Dodge; but there are still living (1907) at least five witnesses of those stirring scenes, namely: Thomas T. Eckert, Charles A. Tinker, Albert B. Chandler, and the writer (David Homer Bates) who served as cipher operators in the War Department telegraph office and Albert E.H. Johnson, custodian of military telegrams. Eckert was our chief and Johnson facetiously called the others the Sacred Three.
There was no time to spare for the task of filing them away in an orderly, careful manner, but the Government was fortunate in having the right man for such an important duty and historians of the Civil War for all time will have cause to be grateful to Major Albert E.H. Johnson for his preliminary work toward the great array of volumes of the Official Records published by authority of Congress, which contain thousands of military telegrams all carefully filed by him.
Johnson before the war was a clerk in Stanton's law office and came with him to the War Department as his private secretary in January 1862. He remained in that capacity and as custodian of military telegrams until Stanton left the cabinet in 1868. Over eighty years of age he is still living in Washington and to him the writer (David Homer Bates) is indebted for authentic data concerning many of the incidents recorded herein.
Secretary Stanton's private secretary, Major A.E.H. Johnson, in conversation with the writer in April 1907, said that in dealing with the public, Lincoln's heart was greater than his head, while Stanton's head was greater than his heart. This characterization though general, contains a great deal of truth.
The New York Times May 14, 1909
Obituary Notes
Major Albert E.H. Johnson, one of the oldest practicing patent attorneys in the United States died in Washington on Wednesday, aged 83 years. During the Civil War he acted for some time as private secretary to Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War serving without remuneration. Later as a reward for his services he was commissioned a Major and Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers.
Major and Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers.
Patent attorney, Johnson & Johnson.
Private Secretary to Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. He helped coordinate the War Department Telegraph Office which revolutionized military communications. He was known as the Custodian of Military Telegrams. He was employed in Stanton's patent law office before the war.
Lincoln In The Telegraph Office: Recollections Of The United States Military Telegraph Corps During The Civil War
Lincoln's daily visits to the telegraph office were therefore greatly relished by him and of course were highly prized by the cipher operators. He would there relax from the strain and care ever present at the White House and while waiting for fresh dispatches or while they were being deciphered, would make running comments or tell his inimitable stories. Outside the members of his cabinet and his private secretaries none were brought into closer or more confidential relations with Lincoln than the cipher operators. Of his official family not one now survives and of the leading generals who met Lincoln in person, there remain only Howard, Sickles, and Dodge; but there are still living (1907) at least five witnesses of those stirring scenes, namely: Thomas T. Eckert, Charles A. Tinker, Albert B. Chandler, and the writer (David Homer Bates) who served as cipher operators in the War Department telegraph office and Albert E.H. Johnson, custodian of military telegrams. Eckert was our chief and Johnson facetiously called the others the Sacred Three.
There was no time to spare for the task of filing them away in an orderly, careful manner, but the Government was fortunate in having the right man for such an important duty and historians of the Civil War for all time will have cause to be grateful to Major Albert E.H. Johnson for his preliminary work toward the great array of volumes of the Official Records published by authority of Congress, which contain thousands of military telegrams all carefully filed by him.
Johnson before the war was a clerk in Stanton's law office and came with him to the War Department as his private secretary in January 1862. He remained in that capacity and as custodian of military telegrams until Stanton left the cabinet in 1868. Over eighty years of age he is still living in Washington and to him the writer (David Homer Bates) is indebted for authentic data concerning many of the incidents recorded herein.
Secretary Stanton's private secretary, Major A.E.H. Johnson, in conversation with the writer in April 1907, said that in dealing with the public, Lincoln's heart was greater than his head, while Stanton's head was greater than his heart. This characterization though general, contains a great deal of truth.
The New York Times May 14, 1909
Obituary Notes
Major Albert E.H. Johnson, one of the oldest practicing patent attorneys in the United States died in Washington on Wednesday, aged 83 years. During the Civil War he acted for some time as private secretary to Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War serving without remuneration. Later as a reward for his services he was commissioned a Major and Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers.
Age 82 years, 4 months. Buried May 14, 1909.
Major and Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers.
Patent attorney, Johnson & Johnson.
Private Secretary to Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. He helped coordinate the War Department Telegraph Office which revolutionized military communications. He was known as the Custodian of Military Telegrams. He was employed in Stanton's patent law office before the war.
Lincoln In The Telegraph Office: Recollections Of The United States Military Telegraph Corps During The Civil War
Lincoln's daily visits to the telegraph office were therefore greatly relished by him and of course were highly prized by the cipher operators. He would there relax from the strain and care ever present at the White House and while waiting for fresh dispatches or while they were being deciphered, would make running comments or tell his inimitable stories. Outside the members of his cabinet and his private secretaries none were brought into closer or more confidential relations with Lincoln than the cipher operators. Of his official family not one now survives and of the leading generals who met Lincoln in person, there remain only Howard, Sickles, and Dodge; but there are still living (1907) at least five witnesses of those stirring scenes, namely: Thomas T. Eckert, Charles A. Tinker, Albert B. Chandler, and the writer (David Homer Bates) who served as cipher operators in the War Department telegraph office and Albert E.H. Johnson, custodian of military telegrams. Eckert was our chief and Johnson facetiously called the others the Sacred Three.
There was no time to spare for the task of filing them away in an orderly, careful manner, but the Government was fortunate in having the right man for such an important duty and historians of the Civil War for all time will have cause to be grateful to Major Albert E.H. Johnson for his preliminary work toward the great array of volumes of the Official Records published by authority of Congress, which contain thousands of military telegrams all carefully filed by him.
Johnson before the war was a clerk in Stanton's law office and came with him to the War Department as his private secretary in January 1862. He remained in that capacity and as custodian of military telegrams until Stanton left the cabinet in 1868. Over eighty years of age he is still living in Washington and to him the writer (David Homer Bates) is indebted for authentic data concerning many of the incidents recorded herein.
Secretary Stanton's private secretary, Major A.E.H. Johnson, in conversation with the writer in April 1907, said that in dealing with the public, Lincoln's heart was greater than his head, while Stanton's head was greater than his heart. This characterization though general, contains a great deal of truth.
The New York Times May 14, 1909
Obituary Notes
Major Albert E.H. Johnson, one of the oldest practicing patent attorneys in the United States died in Washington on Wednesday, aged 83 years. During the Civil War he acted for some time as private secretary to Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War serving without remuneration. Later as a reward for his services he was commissioned a Major and Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers.
Major and Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers.
Patent attorney, Johnson & Johnson.
Private Secretary to Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. He helped coordinate the War Department Telegraph Office which revolutionized military communications. He was known as the Custodian of Military Telegrams. He was employed in Stanton's patent law office before the war.
Lincoln In The Telegraph Office: Recollections Of The United States Military Telegraph Corps During The Civil War
Lincoln's daily visits to the telegraph office were therefore greatly relished by him and of course were highly prized by the cipher operators. He would there relax from the strain and care ever present at the White House and while waiting for fresh dispatches or while they were being deciphered, would make running comments or tell his inimitable stories. Outside the members of his cabinet and his private secretaries none were brought into closer or more confidential relations with Lincoln than the cipher operators. Of his official family not one now survives and of the leading generals who met Lincoln in person, there remain only Howard, Sickles, and Dodge; but there are still living (1907) at least five witnesses of those stirring scenes, namely: Thomas T. Eckert, Charles A. Tinker, Albert B. Chandler, and the writer (David Homer Bates) who served as cipher operators in the War Department telegraph office and Albert E.H. Johnson, custodian of military telegrams. Eckert was our chief and Johnson facetiously called the others the Sacred Three.
There was no time to spare for the task of filing them away in an orderly, careful manner, but the Government was fortunate in having the right man for such an important duty and historians of the Civil War for all time will have cause to be grateful to Major Albert E.H. Johnson for his preliminary work toward the great array of volumes of the Official Records published by authority of Congress, which contain thousands of military telegrams all carefully filed by him.
Johnson before the war was a clerk in Stanton's law office and came with him to the War Department as his private secretary in January 1862. He remained in that capacity and as custodian of military telegrams until Stanton left the cabinet in 1868. Over eighty years of age he is still living in Washington and to him the writer (David Homer Bates) is indebted for authentic data concerning many of the incidents recorded herein.
Secretary Stanton's private secretary, Major A.E.H. Johnson, in conversation with the writer in April 1907, said that in dealing with the public, Lincoln's heart was greater than his head, while Stanton's head was greater than his heart. This characterization though general, contains a great deal of truth.
The New York Times May 14, 1909
Obituary Notes
Major Albert E.H. Johnson, one of the oldest practicing patent attorneys in the United States died in Washington on Wednesday, aged 83 years. During the Civil War he acted for some time as private secretary to Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War serving without remuneration. Later as a reward for his services he was commissioned a Major and Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers.
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