Willis Fletcher Johnson
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Willis Fletcher Johnson (1857 – March 29, 1931), was an author, journalist, and lecturer who had a twenty-year tenure as the foreign and diplomatic editorial writer for The New York Tribune.[1]
According to Paula Hunt, writing in The New England Quarterly in 2015, Johnson's Colonel Henry Ludington: A Memoir was published privately by Ludington's grandchildren, Charles H. and Lavinia Elizabeth Ludington.[2] The biography, according to Hunt, "offers a laudatory account" of the colonel's life; Hunt states that it "was certainly not of the order of Johnson’s usual projects", noting that it was omitted from his New York Times obituary.[3] She writes that the New England Historical & Genealogical Register reviewed it as a "charming, simple memoir",[3] which she says was intended to "remedy a belief that the Revolution-era militia and its officers had not received the recognition they deserved and to ensure the colonel's place in American history", citing page vii of the Memoirs.[4] She characterized the work as a "not wholly reliable source".[5]
Works
Some of Johnson's works include:
- Life of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman.[6]
- Colonel Henry Ludington A Memoir[7]
- The History of Cuba. 1921. Gutemberg Project
