Rev. Mr. Newgent delivered the funeral oration. Men of prominence from various parts of the country helped to swell the vast throng that was present at the funeral service. The story of the colonel’s conversion from skepticism to simple, saving faith in Christ was related by the speaker, and produced a profound impression. The paper with which this chapter is concluded refers to the life-long association of the two men, Johnston, the “young cavalryman of Indiana,” and Newgent, the “boy chaplain.” It was read before a special meeting of the Steele Post G. A. R., and auxiliary orders of Rockville shortly after Johnston’s death by Mrs. White, the wife of Judge A. F. White of that city. Judge White was also a soldier and a life-long friend of Johnston and Newgent. The doctor referred to in the paper had served as a physician in the Confederate army, but afterward took up his residence in Rockville, where he built up a large practice. The three men were present with the wife when Colonel Johnston died, and helped to make up the scene in the death chamber so dramatically described in the paper. “LIGHTS OUT.” “It is midwinter in east Tennessee in 1863. The rivers are flooded, the valleys desolate, the mountain gaps gorged with snow. It is the home of mountain patriots; it must be held at all hazards to the last. This is Lincoln’s solemn wish; it is a part of Grant’s giant plan when Mission Ridge is stormed. A young cavalryman of Indiana is one of the ten thousand who keep freedom’s vigils along the Clinch, the Holstein, and the French Broad. He munches his meager rations of parched corn; he rides the wild mountain roads night and day; he obeys to the letter his orders to hold to the last man the ford of a remote mountain stream. A buckshot buries itself in his wrist, making a wound which heals long after the war and a scar which he carries to his grave. The old flag stays in east Tennessee. “He has a comrade from a neighboring county who shares with him the suffering and sacrifice of that desperate campaign, he is the “boy chaplain” of the brigade.