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7 unusual facts about Albert Sidney Johnston


Albert Johnston

Albert Sidney Johnston (1803–1862), United States Army officer, Texas Army general, and Confederate States general

General Johnston

Albert Sidney Johnston (1803–1862), Confederate American Civil War general who was killed in action at the battle of Shiloh

Jeremy Francis Gilmer

He soon became chief engineer on the staff of General A. S. Johnston as a lieutenant colonel.

Kenner Garrard

In 1855, Garrard was transferred to the 2nd U.S. Cavalry as an adjutant to Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston and Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Lee, both future generals in the Confederate States Army.

Lyceum-The Circle Historic District

Occupying the same position in The Circle since 1906, the Confederate Monument contains a sub-column fashioned in the likeness of a castle containing the inscription "To Our Confederate Dead, 1861-1865, Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter 379 U.D.C." and a Confederate soldier looking off into the distance with a rifle at his side.

Richard C. Gatlin

He then served in Missouri and Louisiana, took part in the Seminole Wars of 1849-50, and served on frontier duty in Kansas, Native American Territory, Arkansas and Dakota until he marched with Albert Sidney Johnston to Utah to take part in the Utah War.

Robert Joseph Dwyer

In 1943, he edited work on the diary of Albert Tracy, a soldier in Albert Sidney Johnston's troops during the Utah War and in 1946 he edited a volume on Mormon pioneer Lorenzo Dow Young which contained a biography of Young by James Amasa Little, an edited diary of Lorenzo Dow Young and additional information on the pioneer's extensive family.


Mary Ashley Townsend

She was officially appointed to deliver the poem on the opening of the New Orleans exposition in 1884, and that at the unveiling of the statue of General Albert Sidney Johnston in 1887.

Texana, Texas

The next year Camp Independence was the site of the famous duel between Felix Huston and Albert Sidney Johnston.


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