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He was the Confederate General famous for winning the first pitched battle of the war, Bull Run/Manassas.

But he was most strongly identified with his brilliant tactical retreat from Chattanooga to Atlanta in Summer 1864, that is still studied in military academies. Here he followed a very logical course for a commander in an army that was running out of recruits, and he managed to conserve manpower while denying the enemy any major victories. Unfortunately, this was not a very Confederate way of doing things, and he was replaced by a gung-ho young General who soon led his army to disaster.

Johnston was regarded as perhaps the best educated General in America. Ironically, he was slow and reluctant at issuing written orders, which his subordinate officers found frustrating, and his memoirs are unreadable.

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