Bradley Tyler Johnson was an American lawyer, soldier, and writer. Although his home state of Maryland remained in the Union during the American Civil War, it was still considered a Southern state and Confederate sympathies were common, and Johnson served as a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army, leading efforts to raise a Maryland Line in the CSA, and rising to command the 1st Maryland Infantry, CSA.
Richmond, Va., January 31, 1865. General BRADLEY T. JOHNSON, Salisbury, N. C.: I have information, probably correct, that within the next ten or twenty days desperate efforts at escape will…