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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

Boatner, Mark M. III. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: David McKay, 1967. p 441

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

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