Joseph E. Johnston was perhaps the most talented General in the South, and he won the war's first Battle (Bull Run), using masterfully subtle tactics.
But there were certain contradictions about him.
He was brave under fire, yet often mysteriously absent from the firing line.
He was probably the best-educated General in America, yet he could not issue clear written orders, and his memoirs are quite unreadable.
He was the most senior General to resign his commission to join the Confederates, yet he was ranked only fourth out of five.
He quarrelled badly with the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, an ex-regular officer who was badly out of his depth as a strategist, and also as a chooser and handler of Generals.
To his cost, he is most identified with the long retreat towards Atlanta, when he tried to conserve his manpower, knowing that replacements were running out. Although this was a wise decision, as well as a brilliant example of a tactical retreat, it was simply not the 'Confederate thing to do', and he was fired.
At Sherman's funeral on a freezing day in New York in 1891, Johnston insisted on standing bare-headed, although friends warned him he would catch his death of cold.
He said "If that were me lying there, Sherman would uncover his head."
Johnston did in fact catch a cold that turned to pneumonia, and he died the same month - perhaps in the end, a 'Confederate thing to do'.
Shiloh, Tennessee. Johnston was killed - Sidney Johnston, that is, no relation to Joseph E. Johnston.
Joseph E. Johnston was a General in the Confederate States Army .
Confederate General Johnston was badly wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines. Aside from that, Lee was the better General. Johnston gave up ground when he did not have to, and he did not work and play well with others.
After the loss at the Battle of Chattanooga, Jefferson Davis replaced Bragg with General Joseph Johnston. Johnston's troops would be asked to defend the march of Union General William T. Sherman to Georgia.
كان ألبرت جونستون قائدًا للقوات الكونفدرالية في معركة شيلوه.
Confederate General Joseph Eggleston Johnston.
Johnston was 5'10.
General Washington Johnston was born in 1776.
General Washington Johnston died in 1833.
George Johnston - general - was born on 1868-10-24.
George Johnston - general - died on 1949-05-23.
Shiloh, Tennessee. Johnston was killed - Sidney Johnston, that is, no relation to Joseph E. Johnston.
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Joseph E. Johnston was a General in the Confederate States Army .
The Confederate leader at Shiloh was General Albert Sidney Johnston when they attacked General Grant's army. General Johnston was killed during the battle.
The Governor General is David Lloyd Johnston.
His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston is the Governor General of Canada.