brigade was under the division command of Jones, now returning. Johnson was advanced to the rank of brigadier general of cavalry in 1864. As commander of the post at Salisbury, N.C., he used his influence to lessen the suffering among the prisoners of war and finally obtained their parole. Postbellum career In 1875, Johnson and William Elam Tanner successfully ran as Democrats for the Virginia State Senate. Johnson initially maintained support from African Americans. "Johnson clubs" were political organizations of African-American voters. Unfortunately, Johnson quickly lost their support. William Carter Knight and Patrick Henry Starke declared their run for the Virginia Senate on the Sunday before election day. They ran as Independents and declared an aggressive fight for civil rights. All African-Americans quickly abandoned the Democratic candidate for Knight and Starke. In one precinct, eighty-five Johnson supporters switched to Knight and Starke. After the war, Johnson practiced law in Richmond until 1879, when he moved to Baltimore. After the death of his wife, he moved to Amelia, Virginia, where he died, but his remains were interred back in Baltimore in Loudon Park Cemetery. Selected works Reports of Chase's Decisions on the Fourth Circuit (1875) Memoir of Joseph E. Johnston (1891) Foundation of Maryland and the Maryland Act Concerning Religion (1883) Life of General Washington, in "Great Commanders Series" (1894) Maryland in Confederate Military History (Atlanta, 1899) See also List of American Civil War Generals (Confederate) Johnny Poe References Hanson, George Adolphus, Old Kent: the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Notes Illustrative of the Most Ancient Records of Kent County, 1876. American legal writers Princeton University alumni Harvard Law School alumni Confederate States Army generals People of Maryland in the American Civil War 1829 births 1903 deaths People from Frederick, Maryland 19th-century American lawyers Burials at Loudon Park Cemetery Maryland lawyers American male non-fiction writers Writers from Maryland 19th-century American writers 19th-century American male writers American lawyers admitted to the practice of law by reading law People from Richmond, Virginia People from Amelia, Virginia American slave owners American slave traders 19th-century American businesspeople