Son of Chief Justice Kensey Johns III and Ann Van Dyke Johns. Graduated from Princeton College and was ordained as a Bishop, and later as a Priest of the Episcopal Church.
During the Civil War he would ride through the battlefields, talking, preaching, and baptizing the sick and wounded on both sides---to both refugees and soldiers alike. He and his family also became refugees as the U.S. Army occupied the southern bank of the Potomac to protect Washington D.C. But he made a conscious decision not to quit his ministry in spite of the uncertainty of whether they would find shelter or a place for him to serve.
After the war, he became president and professor of theology at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia.
During the Civil War he would ride through the battlefields, talking, preaching, and baptizing the sick and wounded on both sides---to both refugees and soldiers alike. He and his family also became refugees as the U.S. Army occupied the southern bank of the Potomac to protect Washington D.C. But he made a conscious decision not to quit his ministry in spite of the uncertainty of whether they would find shelter or a place for him to serve.
After the war, he became president and professor of theology at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia.
Son of Chief Justice Kensey Johns III and Ann Van Dyke Johns. Graduated from Princeton College and was ordained as a Bishop, and later as a Priest of the Episcopal Church.
During the Civil War he would ride through the battlefields, talking, preaching, and baptizing the sick and wounded on both sides---to both refugees and soldiers alike. He and his family also became refugees as the U.S. Army occupied the southern bank of the Potomac to protect Washington D.C. But he made a conscious decision not to quit his ministry in spite of the uncertainty of whether they would find shelter or a place for him to serve.
After the war, he became president and professor of theology at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia.
During the Civil War he would ride through the battlefields, talking, preaching, and baptizing the sick and wounded on both sides---to both refugees and soldiers alike. He and his family also became refugees as the U.S. Army occupied the southern bank of the Potomac to protect Washington D.C. But he made a conscious decision not to quit his ministry in spite of the uncertainty of whether they would find shelter or a place for him to serve.
After the war, he became president and professor of theology at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia.
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