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Edward "Allegheny" Johnson (April 16, 1816 – March 2, 1873) was a United States Army officer and Confederate general in the American Civil War. Highly rated by Robert E. Lee, he was made a divisional commander under Richard S. Ewell .
After Virginia declared secession from the United States, he entered the Confederate States Army as one of its most senior general officers during the American Civil War. From 1888 to 1889 he was a vice president, from 1889 to 1890 president, of the Aztec Club of 1847 .
Johnson was at the Cavalry School at Carlisle Barracks at the outbreak of the Civil War. The War Department appointed Johnson lieutenant colonel of the 3rd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment and soon after was promoted to brigadier general, United States Volunteers. [2] As a cavalry commander he took part in the western campaigns of 1861 and 1862.
Bushrod Rust Johnson (October 7, 1817 – September 12, 1880) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War and an officer in the United States Army.As a university professor he had been active in the state militias of Kentucky and Tennessee and on the outbreak of hostilities he sided with the South, despite having been born in the North into a family of abolitionist Quakers.
Johnston's adjutant general, and future U.S. general in the Civil War, Major Fitz John Porter wrote: "Experienced on the Plains and of established reputation for energy, courage, and resources, [Johnston's] presence restored confidence at all points, and encouraged the weak-hearted and panic-stricken multitude. The long chain of wagons, kinked ...
Duncan, Johnson K. Brigadier general rank, conf: January 7, 1862 nom: January 9, 1862 ... Often shown as first general killed in Civil War, before First Bull Run.
After the war, Byron R. Johnson became a successful businessman, moved to San Francisco, and then Seattle, where he died unheralded in 1913. In 1913, his death went unmarked and unremembered. Now ...
Sifakis, Stewart, Who Was Who in the Civil War. Facts On File, New York, 1988. ISBN 0-8160-1055-2. United States War Department, The Military Secretary's Office, Memorandum Relative to the General Officers in the Armies of the United States During the Civil War, 1861–1865, (Compiled from Official Records.) 1906.