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Sep 26, 2024 · Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, U.S. Army. Joseph E. Johnston was born on February 3, 1807, near Farmville, Virginia. He was a classmate of Robert E. Lee at West Point, before graduating in 1829.
Oct 1, 2024 · Joseph E. Johnston, the Confederate officer who had commanded the resistance to Sherman's troops in Georgia and the Carolinas, served as a pallbearer in New York City. It was a bitterly cold day and a friend of Johnston, fearing that the general might become ill, asked him to put on his hat.
Sep 30, 2024 · The essays in this volume examine major Civil War generals in the context of their leadership at a specific battle or campaign. Topics include Joseph E. Johnston in 1861-62, James Longstreet and Chattanooga, Edwin Sumner and Antietam, George E. Pickett after Gettysburg, and Pierre Beauregard and the Bermuda Hundred campaign.
Sep 28, 2024 · During this period, the western theater armies of Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman were marching up the interior of the Carolinas, where they eventually forced the surrender of the largest remaining Confederate field army, under Joseph E. Johnston, on April 26, 1865.
6 days ago · The main Confederate armies, the Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee and the remnants of the Army of Tennessee and various other units under General Joseph E. Johnston, surrendered to the U.S. on April 9, 1865 (officially April 12), and April 18, 1865 (officially April 26).
6 days ago · Johnston anticipated Sherman's move and met the Union forces at New Hope Church. Sherman mistakenly surmised that Johnston had a token force and ordered Maj. General Joseph Hooker's corps to attack.
Sep 25, 2024 · The victory can also be attributed in part to failures of Confederate transportation, matériel, and political leadership, despite the strategic and tactical dexterity of such generals as Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Joseph E. Johnston.
Sep 18, 2024 · The Battle of Adairsville was a Confederate delaying action that allowed Gen. Joseph E. Johnston to bait a trap for the Union army at Cassville. Following the Battle of Resaca, May 13–15, Johnston's army retreated southward while Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman pursued.
Sep 15, 2024 · He argues that contemporary sources portray Johnston as conducting his operations competently and within the strategic framework laid down in Richmond, even when he personally disagreed with those decisions.
Sep 30, 2024 · The Confederates, under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, also trained at Centreville, 25 miles to the west. With the approach of winter, both McClellan and johnston wrestled with logistical problems. Food and rations for the men and forage for the thousands of horses and mules were a constant need.
