Gen. Joseph E. Johnston
Born: February 3, 1807
Farmville, Virginia
Died: March 21, 1891
New York City, NY
West Point: 1829
2nd Lieutenant: 1829
1st Lieutenant:
Captain: 1838
Lieutenant Colonel: 1847
Quartermaster General: 1860
Resigned US Army: April 22, 1861
Major General CSA: April 1861
Brig Gen CSA: May 14, 1861
General CSA: July 21, 1861
June 1829: West Point Graduate - 13 in a class of 46
June 1832: Black Hawk War
1836: Second Seminole War
March 1837: Resigned from the Army
April 1838: Reenlisted in the Army - Topographical Engineer
1842: Indian Wars
April 1847: Mexican War - Wounded at the Battle of Cerro Gordo
September 13, 1847: Wounded at the Battle of Chapultepec
June 28, 1860: Appointed Quartermaster General
April 22, 1861: Resigned from the US Army
April 1861: Major General Virginia Volunteers
June 30 - July 20, 1861: Commander of the Army of the Shenandoah
July 2, 1861: Battle of Hoke's Run
July 20 - October 22, 1861: Commander of the Army of the Potomac
July 21, 1861: Battle of Bull Run
October 22 - May 31, 1862: Commanding Department of Northern Virginia
March - July 1862: Peninsula Campaign
May 5, 1862: Commanded at Williamsburg
May 31, 1862: Wounded at Fair Oaks
December 4 - December 1863: Commanding Department of the West
May 14, 1863: Battle of Jackson (Siege of Vicksburg)
1863 - 1864: Opposed Gen. Sherman
December 27 - July 18, 1864: Commander of the Army of Tennessee
May - September 1864: Atlanta Campaign
May 13-15, 1864: Battle of Resaca
May 26 - June 1, 1864: Battle of Dallas
June 27, 1864: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
February 25 - April 26, 1865: Commanding Army of Tennessee and Department of Tennessee and Georgia
Also Commanding Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida
March 16 - April 26, 1865: Added Commanding Department of North Carolina
April 26, 1865: Surrendered to Gen. Sherman at Bennett Place in Durham, NC. Largest surrender of the war - 82,270 soldiers
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Bradford, Gamaliel. Confederate Portraits. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1914. p 1-34
Symonds, Craig L. Joseph E. Johnston A Civil War Biography. New York: W.W. Norton, 1992.
Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1992. p 161-162