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Adam Johnson

Stovepipe Johnson (Adam Rankin Johnson, 1834–1922), Brigadier general of the Confederate States of America


Marble Falls, Texas

Marble Falls was founded in 1887 by Adam Rankin Johnson, a former Indian fighter and Confederate general, known as "Stovepipe" Johnson for his American Civil War escapades, which included duping the Union army in Newburgh, Indiana, with fake "cannons," constructed from stovepipes and wagon wheels.


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