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Civil War Soldiers - Johnson
| Johnson, Andrew, brigadier-general,
U.S. Army, was born in Raleigh, N. C., Dec. 29, 1808. Moving to
Tennessee when a young man, he became prominent in politics, was for
several terms a member of the state legislature, and represented his
district in Congress from 1843-1853. He was then elected governor of
Tennessee, was re-elected in 1855, and in 1857 was elected to the
United States senate. In the senate he strongly opposed secession and
said that he was in favor of having secessionists arrested and tried
for treason. Johnson held his seat in the United States senate until
1862, when he was appointed by President Lincoln military governor of
Tennessee, ranking as brigadier- general of volunteers. His service in
the war was in this capacity, and it was chiefly due to his courage
that Nashville was held against a Confederate force. He urged the
holding of Union meetings throughout the state, raised twenty-five
regiments for service in the state, and levied a tax on the wealthy
southern sympathizers to be used in behalf of the families of the
poorer Confederate soldiers. He exercised during his term of office
absolute and autocratic powers, but with moderation and discretion,
and his course strengthened the Union cause in Tennessee. Upon the
renomination of Mr. Lincoln for the presidency Mr. Johnson was
nominated for vice-president, and when President Lincoln was
assassinated Johnson was immediately sworn in as president, April 15,
1865. Johnson's course as president does not concern this volume.
After the expiration of his term of office he returned to Tennessee,
and in 1875 was elected U. S. senator. He died at Carter's station,
Carter county, Tenn., July 30, 1875. Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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JOHNSON, BUSHROD R., Tennessee.
Colonel, regiment engineers, Provisional Army of Tennessee, June 28,
1861.
Brigadier general, P. A. C. S., January 24, 1862.
Major general, P. A. C. S., May 21, 1864.
Died September 12, 1880, at Miles Station, Illinois.Commands.
Brigade composed of the Seventeenth, Twenty-third, Twenty-fifth,
Thirty-seventh, and Forty-fourth Tennessee Regiments Infantry, and
Captain Darden's Battery of Light Artillery, Army of Tennessee.
Commanding, in __, 1862, the Third Brigade, Third Division, Army of
the Mississippi. Division composed of Johnson's (commanded by Colonel
Fulton), Wise's, Elliott's, and Gracie's Brigades, and Sixty-fourth
Georgia Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia.
Johnson, Bushrod Rust, born in Ohio, appointed from Ohio cadet
United States Military Academy, July 1, 1836; graduated twenty-third
in a class of forty-two.
Second lieutenant, Third Infantry, July 1, 1840.
First lieutenant, February 29, 1844.
Resigned October 22, 1847.
Source: Military Records of General Officers of the Confederate
States of America, by Charles B. Hall, 1898
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JOHNSON, EDWARD, Virginia.
Lieutenant colonel, Corps of Infantry, C. S. A., March 16, 1861.
Brigadier general, P. A. C. S., December 13, 1861.
Major general, P. A. C. S., February 28, 1863.
Died February 22, 1873.
Commands.
January 3, 1862, commanding Monterey Line. May 17, 1862, commanding
Army of the Northwest. April 30, 1863, commanding Division in Ewell's
Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, composed of the brigades of Walker,
Stewart and J. M. Jones. June 22, 1863, to August 31, 1864, commanding
a division in Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. September 1,
1864, assigned command of Anderson's division, Stephen D. Lee's Second
Corps, Army of Tennessee. November 30, 1864, same command.
Johnson, Edward, born in Kentucky, appointed from Kentucky cadet
United States Military Academy, July 1, 1833; graduated thirty-second
in a class of forty-five.
Second lieutenant of infantry, July 1, 1838.
First lieutenant, October 9, 1839.
Captain, April 15, 1851.
Brevet captain, September 8, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct
at the battle of Molino del Rey, Mexico, and
Major, September 13, 1847, for gallant conduct in the battle of
Chapultepec, Mexico.
Resigned June 10, 1861.
Source: Military Records of General Officers of the Confederate
States of America, by Charles B. Hall, 1898
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| Johnson, Richard W.,
brigadier-general, U.S. Army, was born near Smithland, Livingston
county, Ky., Feb. 7, 1827, and was graduated at West Point in 1849. He
was promoted 1st lieutenant of the 2nd cavalry in 1855, was promoted
captain in 1856 and served on the Texas frontier until 1861. He was
then assigned to the 3d Ky., cavalry with the rank of
lieutenant-colonel; was promoted brigadier-general Oct. 11, and, being
assigned a brigade in Gen. Buell's army, engaged at Shiloh, Tenn., and
served also in Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky. He engaged in the
siege of Corinth, commanded a division in the Army of the Ohio in the
Tennessee campaign, in July, 1862, was taken prisoner at Gallatin,
Aug. 21, 1862, and after his exchange in December, was placed in
command of the 12th division of the Army of the Cumberland. He was at
Stone's river, Chickamauga, Missionary ridge, and in the Atlanta
campaign, engaging in all the battles from Chattanooga to New Hope
Church, where he was severely wounded, May 28, 1864. He subsequently
commanded a division of cavalry at the battle of Nashville, was
brevetted brigadier-general in the regular army, March 13, 1865, for
gallant and meritorious services, and at the same time major-general
U. S. A. for his services in the field during the war, and he remained
on the staff of Gen. Thomas as provost-marshal and judge-advocate of
the military district of the Tennessee until 1866, when he was
mustered out of the volunteer service. He was retired with the rank of
major, Oct. 12, 1867, and with the rank of brigadier-general March 3,
1875. Gen. Johnson was military professor in the University of
Missouri, 1868-69, and in the University of Minnesota, 1869-70. He was
the unsuccessful candidate of the Democratic party for governor of
Minnesota in 1881. He died in St. Paul, Minn., April 21, 1897.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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