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A member of the Class of 1840, United States Military Acadamy at West Point, Bushrod Rust johnson saw service in the Seminole Warin Florida and the war with Mexico.  He resigned the army in 1847 to become a teacher at Western Military Institute at Georgetown, Kentucky and then the Military College of the University of Nashville.  Johnson was active in the militia of both states and entered service to the Confederacy as a colonel of engineers.  He was promoted to brigadier general in January 1862.  He was captured at Fort Donelson but escaped.  Later he was severly wounded at Shiloh.  After his recovery he led his brigade in the Kentucky campaign of 1862, at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga, and in the Knoxville campaign under Longstreet.   He was then transferred East, where he took part in the defense of Petersburg.  He was commisioned major general on May 21, 1864.  He served the rest of the war with the Army of Northern Virginia.  His division was shattered at Sayler's Creek.  He escaped but was on the parole records at Appomattox.  This image is missing the lower left corner.  The backmark is "E. & H.T. Anthony. 501 Broadway, New York, Manufacturers of the best Photographic Albumns.".