Joseph Egleston Johnston

Joseph Egleston Johnston was one of the highest-ranking general officers who served at the highest level as a full general for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. He contributed to the victory at the First Battle of Bull Run and later commanded armies such as the Army of Tennessee. Although prone to friction with President Jefferson Davis, he excelled in skillful defensive and tactical retreat strategies to conserve forces, stubbornly resisting the invasion of Union forces led by General Sherman. After the war, he served as a US Representative and became a symbol of North-South reconciliation, even attending the funeral of his former arch-nemesis, Sherman.

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1807	Birth of Joseph Egleston Johnston (Period: February 3, 1807, Location: Farmville area, Virginia, United States)
1825	West Point admission and graduation (Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Age: 17 years old, Period: 1825–1829, Location: West Point, New York)
1835	Second Seminole War (Age: 27 years old, Period: 1835–1842, Location: Florida)
1837	Resignation from the U.S. Army (Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Age: 29 years old, Period: 1837, Location: United States) Combat and reconnaissance operations in Florida (Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Age: 29 years old, Period: 1837–1838, Location: Florida)
1845	Marriage (Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Lydia McLane, Age: 38 years old, Period: July 10, 1845, Location: Baltimore, Maryland)
1846	Mexican-American War (Age: 38 years old, Period: 1846–1848, Location: Northern Mexico, Coahuila, etc.)
1860	Appointment as U.S. Quartermaster General (Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Age: 52 years old, Period: 1860, Location: Washington, D.C.)
1861	American Civil War (Age: 53 years old, Period: 1861–1865, Location: North Carolina, Virginia, etc.) Resignation from the U.S. Army and joining the Confederacy (Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Age: 54 years old, Period: April–May 1861, Location: Washington, D.C. and Virginia) Overall Confederate command at the First Battle of Bull Run (Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Age: 54 years old, Period: July 21, 1861, Location: Vicinity of Manassas, Virginia)
1862	Peninsula Campaign (Age: 54 years old, Period: Spring–Summer 1862, Location: Vicinity of Yorktown, Williamsburg, and Richmond, Virginia) Vicksburg Campaign (Age: 54 years old, Period: 1862–1863, Location: Vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi) Severe wound at the Battle of Seven Pines (Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Age: 55 years old, Period: May 31 – June 1, 1862, Location: Southeastern Richmond, Virginia)
1863	Appointment as commander of the Army of Tennessee (Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Age: 56 years old, Period: December 1863 – July 1864, Location: Tennessee and Georgia)
1864	Relieved of command during the Atlanta Campaign (Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Age: 57 years old, Period: July 17, 1864, Location: Vicinity of Atlanta, Georgia)
1865	Return to command in the Carolinas Campaign (Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Age: 57 years old, Period: February–April 1865, Location: North Carolina and South Carolina) Battle of Bentonville (Age: 58 years old, Period: March 19–21, 1865, Location: Bentonville, North Carolina)
1874	Publication of "Narrative of Military Operations" (Age: 66 years old, Period: 1874, Location: United States)
1879	Election to the U.S. House of Representatives (Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Age: 71 years old, Period: 1879–1881, Location: Washington, D.C.)
1885	Appointment as Federal Railroad Commissioner (Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Age: 77 years old, Period: 1885–1890s, Location: Washington, D.C.)
1891	Attendance at William T. Sherman's funeral (Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Age: 83 years old, Period: February 1891, Location: New York City, New York) Death of Joseph Egleston Johnston (Age: 84 years old, Period: March 21, 1891)

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Key Confederate Officers	Thomas Jonathan Jackson James Longstreet Joseph Egleston Johnston Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard Braxton Bragg John Bell Hood Jubal Anderson Early Nathan Bedford Forrest John Brown Gordon
The Lee family	Robert E. Lee George Washington Custis Lee William Henry Fitzhugh Lee Fitzhugh Lee Robert Edward Lee Jr.
Southern politician	Jefferson Finis Davis Alexander Hamilton Stephens Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter John Cabell Breckinridge Judah Philip Benjamin John Henninger Reagan Wade Hampton III Francis Richard Lubbock Luke Pryor Blackburn Joseph Emerson Brown Alfred Holt Colquitt James Lawson Kemper Zebulon Baird Vance

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