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	Albert Sidney Johnston
		Johnston was born in Washington, Kentucky, the youngest son of Dr. John and Abigail Harris Johnston.
		Johnston managed to convince a few volunteers to stay and fight as he himself served as the inspector general of volunteers and fought at the battles of Monterrey and Buena Vista.
		Johnston remained on his plantation after the war until he was appointed by President Zachary Taylor to the U.S. Army as a major and was made a paymaster in December of 1849.
	www.reboom.com /article/Albert_Sidney_Johnston.html (1235 words)

	Albert Sidney Johnston - LoveToKnow 1911
		ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON (1803-1862), American Confederate general in the Civil War, was born at Washington, Mason county, Kentucky, on the 3rd of February 1803.
		Johnston himself, who had entered upon the Civil War with the reputation of being the foremost soldier on either side, bore with fortitude the reproaches of his countrymen, and Davis loyally supported his old friend.
		His SOH, William Preston Johnston (1831-1899), who served on the staff of General Johnston and subsequently on that of President Davis, was a distinguished professor and president of Tulane University.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Albert_Sidney_Johnston (556 words)

	Albert Sidney Johnston
		Albert Sidney Johnston was born in Washington, Kentucky, on 2 February 1803.
		Johnston impressed people with his intelligence and demeanor, and, consequently, he managed to climb the ranks rapidly.
		Johnston commanded the Department of Utah from 1858 to 1860.
	historytogo.utah.gov /people/albertsidneyjohnston.html (521 words)

	Albert Sidney Johnston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Albert Sidney Johnston, the second highest ranking Confederate general, bled to death on the battlefield at Shiloh from a minor wound.
		Johnston had sent his surgeon off to tend to some wounded Union soldiers, but had they known, almost any of his aides could have staunched the flow of blood that was trickling into his boot from a severed artery.
		Johnston was one of the most highly esteemed officers at the beginning of the war, and both sides offered him a high command.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /OfficersAndEnlistedMen/albertsidneyjohnston.html (337 words)

	Albert Sidney Johnston - Encyclopedia.com
		Johnston became its commander in 1837 and served as Texas secretary of war, 1838-40.
		Reentering the U.S. army in 1849, Johnston served on the Texas frontier, was commander of the Dept. of Texas (1856-58), led the expedition against the Mormons (1857), and commanded the Dept. of Utah (1858-60).
		Johnston was killed at the height of battle.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-JohnstonAS.html (400 words)

	American Civil War Gaming & Reading: Review: Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Albert Sidney Johnston was born in Kentucky in 1803, the son of a practicing doctor who originally hailed from New England.
		Johnston seemed to be attracted to the most active areas all his life, first participating in the Black Hawk War in 1832, then moving on to the newly created Republic of Texas in the 1830's.
		Johnston spent most of his adult life in and around the military in one form or another, so this biography is naturally enough concerned with a lot of military matters.
	brettschulte.net /ACWBlog/archives/books_reviews/review_albert_sidney_johnston_soldi.html (1528 words)

	The Confederate Career of General Albert Sidney Johnston - A Review by General Basil W. Duke - from the Southern ...
		In 1860 General Johnston was placed in command of the Department of California, and proceeded in pursuance of orders to San Francisco, where he remained until superseded by General Sumner, April 25, 1861; he had previously, on April 10, forwarded his resignation as an officer of the United States army.
		General Johnston was, of course, accused by the Union press, as was every other officer who quitted the service of the United States Government to enter that of the Confederacy, of disloyal attempts, antecedent to the acceptance of his resignation, to assist the Southern cause.
		Johnston's death at the moment that victory had declared itself for him, the consequent suspension of the attack and partial withdrawal of the Confederate lines before Beauregard could “gather the reins of the battle,” and the timely arrival of Buell that night, saved the army they commanded from destruction.
	www.swcivilwar.com /ASJohnstonSHSP.html (2768 words)

	TN Encyclopedia: ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON
		The first commander of Confederate forces in the Western Theater, Albert Sidney Johnston was born at Washington, Kentucky, on February 2, 1803.
		Johnston assumed the task of defending a three-hundred-mile front stretching from the Mississippi River across Tennessee and Kentucky to the Cumberland Gap.
		Johnston decided to lead personally this regiment, the Forty-fifth Tennessee Infantry, in a charge against what came to be known as the Hornets' Nest.
	tennesseeencyclopedia.net /imagegallery.php?EntryID=J027 (655 words)

	General Albert Sidney Johnston - Fun Facts, Questions, Answers, Information
		Johnston was a highly effective Secretary of War, and ensured that the Texas border was safe from Indian attacks and Mexican invasion.
		Johnston was the highest ranking field commander, as Cooper was elderly and desk-bound in his role as Adjutant and Inspector General.
		Johnston used false media releases and troop movements to give the impression that an attack on the Union forces was imminent.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/subtopics/General-Albert-Sidney-Johnston-139415.html (890 words)

	Johnston - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Johnston, Albert Sidney (1803-62), American army officer, born in Washington, Kentucky, and educated at Transylvania University (now Transylvania...
		Johnston, Frank (1888-1949), Canadian landscape and genre painter, best known for his paintings of pilot training during World War I (1914-1918)...
		Johnston, Joseph Eggleston (1807-91), American soldier and Confederate general, who participated in most of the major campaigns of the American...
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	Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862)
		Johnston was born in Washington, Kentucky, on February 2, 1803, the youngest son of Dr. John and Abigail Harris Johnston.
		Johnston was to provide the defense of the Texas border against Mexican invasion, and in December 1839 he led an expedition against the Cherokee in East Texas.
		Johnston returned to the Texas Army during the Mexican-American War under General Zachary Taylor as a colonel of the 1st Texas Rifle Volunteers, fighting at the Battle of Monterrey on September 20-24, 1846.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/johnston1.html (1124 words)

	Confederate States of America Commemorative Silver Dollars & Merchandise
		General Albert Sidney Johnston was placed in command of all Confederate troops west of the Alleghenies.
		Johnston went to the Peach Orchard where the artillery was shelling the Hornets Nest, and rallied the troops where he led the final successful assault of the Hornets Nest.
		When Confederate President Jefferson Davis learned of Johnston's death he said, "The fortunes of a country hung by a single thread on the life that was yielded on the field of Shiloh." Many Confederate leaders were similarly convinced that if Johnston had lived, his army would have won the battle and even perhaps the war.
	www.csasilverdollar.com /johnston.html (1068 words)

	Wikinfo \| Joseph E. Johnston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Johnston was placed in command of the Army of Northern Virginia and led it in the start of the 1862 Peninsula Campaign.
		After the war Johnston served a term as Congressman from Virginia and was a commissioner of railroads in the administration of United States President Grover Cleveland.
		Johnston had the grace to be a pallbearer at the funeral of General Sherman, his former opponent.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Joseph_E._Johnston (1092 words)

	Albert Sidney Johnston
		He was the youngest son of Dr. John Johnston, a country physician, a native of Salisbury, Connecticut Albert Sidney was graduated at the United States military academy, eighth in his class, in 1826, and was assigned to the 2d infantry, in which he served as adjutant until his resignation, 24 April, 1834.
		General Scott called General Johnston's appointment "a god send to the army and the country." He remained in command of his regiment and the Department of Texas until ordered, in 1857, to the command of the expedition to restore order among the Mormons in Utah, who were in open revolt against the National government.
		General Johnston wrote to his government: "To suppose, with the facilities of movement by water which the well-filled rivers of the Ohio, Cumberland, and Tennessee give for active operations, that they [the National forces] will suspend them in Tennessee and Kentucky during the winter months, is a delusion.
	www.famousamericans.net /albertsidneyjohnston (2330 words)

	Ranking is everything (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Johnston complained that those orders were illegal in another letter and again Davis wrote another remark "Insubordinate." Johnston at last found out he ranked 4th in the midst of September and he did something that nobody would do.
		Sidney was appointed colonel with a brevet brigadier's star when he stationed in Texas in 1855, with the help of his friend Jefferson Davis, the Secretary of War during the Franklin Pierce Administration.
		Davis was fully aware that Johnston held the rank of a brigadier General because it was Senator Davis himself, in the capacity of Chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee in the Pres.
	hometown.aol.com /gordonkwok/ranking.html (1916 words)

	ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON, CSA
		Albert Sidney Johnston was born in Washington, Kentucky, on February 2, 1803.
		Johnston graduated from West Point in 1826, and served with distinction in the Black Hawk and Mexican Wars.
		During the battle, Johnston was shot in the right leg by a stray minié bullet.
	www.multied.com /Bio/CWcGENS/CSAJohnstonAS.html (142 words)

	Albert Sidney Johnston Collection: A Guide
		Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate general, U. Army colonel and paymaster, brigadier general and Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas, was born at Washington, Kentucky, February 2, 1803.
		Johnston was brevet brigadier general in the expedition to escort the Mormons to Salt Lake City from 1858 to 1860.
		Johnston was appointed as a general in the Confederate Army by Jefferson Davis and assigned command of the Western Department in charge of Confederate operations in Tennessee and Kentucky.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/utarl/00013/00013-P.html (2196 words)

	Battle of Shiloh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Johnston was born in Kentucky and obtained his education at West Point.
		Johnston was made a paymaster by Taylor during Taylor's presidency.
		Johnston was the highest ranking individual on either side to die in battle.
	www.collectorsnet.com /cwtimes/shiloh.htm (368 words)

	M221 Johnston (Albert Sidney) Letter
		Johnston was born in Washington, Kentucky, to Dr. John and Abigail Johnston.
		Albert Johnston was educated under the direction of private tutors and later attended Transylvania University, where he excelled in Mathematics and Latin.
		On the verge of victory, Johnston was mortally wounded in an artery and bled to death.
	www.lib.usm.edu /~archives/m221text.htm (820 words)

	Historic Washington, Kentucky
		She had six children of which Albert Sidney was the fifth she died when he was three.
		Albert Sidney Johnston arrived at West Point in June, passed the entrance exams and was admitted to the Corps of Cadets.
		Johnston was a gentleman, devoted husband and kind father; reared in the chivalric tradition of the Old South, he exalted womanhood as above reproach..
	www.washingtonky.com /civilwar.html (716 words)

	Albert Johnston
		Albert Sidney Johnston was born in Washington, Kentucky, on 2nd February, 1803.
		Albert Sidney Johnston ignored the wound and continued fighting until the heavy loss of blood led to him losing consciousness and bleeding to death.
		General Albert Sidney Johnston, who commanded the Confederate forces at the beginning of the battle at Shiloh, was disabled by a wound on the afternoon of the first day.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USACWjohnsonA.htm (492 words)

	Albert Sydney Johnston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Albert Sydney Johnston was born in Washington, Kentucky, later attended Transylvania University and graduated from West Point in 1826.
		Johnston saw service in the Black Hawk War in 1832, but resigned his commission in 1834 to move to Texas.
		Johnston seized the initiative in April 1862, surprising the Union forces near Pittsburg Landing (Battle of Shiloh).
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h207.html (408 words)

	Shiloh 2
		Albert Sidney Johnson, from a photograph at the age of 57, taken in Salt Lake City in 1860.
		If it be asked why General Johnston accepted and issued an order of march and battle which he had not contemplated, the reply is that it had been prepared by his second in command, who was presumably more familiar with the country and the roads than himself, and hence with the necessities of the case.
		In spite of opposition and prediction of failure, Johnston firmly and decidedly ordered and led the attack in the execution of his general plan, and, notwithstanding the faulty arrangement of the troops, was eminently successful up to the moment of his fall.
	www.civilwarhistory.com /johnston.htm (10199 words)

	SCV ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON CAMP #67
		Albert Sidney Johnston was born in 1803 to John and Abigail Harris Johnston in Washington, Kentucky.
		Johnston enlisted in the Texas Army in 1836 after hearing Stephen F. Austin, who was on a recruiting mission for the young Republic of Texas, spoke in Louisville just one day after the fall of the Alamo.
		Johnston, who wished to be buried "with a handful of Texas earth on my breast", is buried in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas.
	www.scvcamp67.org (393 words)

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