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4 days ago · 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.
2 days ago · Early on July 3rd, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston led his Army of Tennessee toward the Chattahoochee River, ending 26 days of operations around Marietta.
4 days ago · The second major Confederate force in the area, 12,000 men under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in the Shenandoah Valley, was to be held in place by Maj. Gen. Robert Patterson with 18,000 men menacing Harpers Ferry, preventing the two Confederate armies from combining against McDowell.
6 days ago · BATTLE SUMMARY. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's line covered the roads leading from Dallas to Acworth, Marietta and Atlanta, his center being near New Hope Church, 4 miles northeast of Dallas. It occupied the wooded summits of a number of ridges, with open valleys in front, over which the Union forces would have to advance to attack.
5 days ago · Albert Sidney Johnston, killed early in the war at Shiloh, might have changed the course of the Western campaign had he survived. Joseph E. Johnston and P.G.T. Beauregard were capable combat leaders, but both had their effectiveness blunted by personal clashes with Davis.
5 days ago · Joseph E. Johnston, the only possibility for a Confederate rescue, felt his force at Jackson was too small to attack Grant's huge army. While Johnston's force was growing (at cost to the rest of the hard-pressed Confederacy), Grant's was growing faster, supplied via the now-open Yazoo River.
5 days ago · 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.
