Joseph E. Johnston

(noun)

Joseph Eggleston Johnston (February 3, 1807 – March 21, 1891) was a career U.S. Army officer, serving with distinction in the Mexican-American War and Seminole Wars. He was also one of the most senior general officers in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

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Examples of Joseph E. Johnston in the following topics:

  • The Battle of Bull Run

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    • Johnston and benefited from the ingenious tactics of Colonol Thomas J.
    • Joseph E.
    • Johnston arrived from the Shenandoah Valley by railroad and the course of the battle quickly changed.

  • The Confederacy's Defeat

    • Robert E.
    • Mosby's raiders disbanded on April 21; General Joseph E.
    • Johnston and his various armies surrendered on April 26; the Confederate departments of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana surrendered on May 4; and the Confederate District of the Gulf, commanded by Major General Dabney Herndon Maury, surrendered on May 5.

  • Union Victories in the Western Theater

    • General Albert Sidney Johnston commanded many Confederate forces in the Western Theater.
    • Bragg was relieved of duty and replaced by General Joseph E.
    • Johnston.
    • On April 11, Johnston received word that General Robert E.
    • When they received word of Lee and Johnston's surrenders, smaller Confederate regiments also surrendered.

  • McClellan's Peninsular Campaign

    • McClellan was initially successful against Confederate General Joseph E.
    • Johnston, but the emergence of aggressive General Robert E.
    • During this time, General Johnston moved his forces from the Washington area and assumed positions south of the Rappahannock River, thwarting the strategy underlying McClellan’s Urbanna plan.
    • Just before the siege preparations were completed, the Confederates, now under the direct command of Johnston, began a withdrawal toward Richmond.
    • Johnston was wounded and replaced on June 1 by the more aggressive Robert E.

  • Lee's Surrender at Appomattox

    • Robert E.
    • Grant's Army of the Potomac and General Robert E.
    • The second and last major stage in the peace-making process, concluding the American Civil War, was the surrender of General Joseph E.
    • Johnston and his armies to Major General William T.
    • Grant sat at the simple wooden table on the right while Robert E.

  • Sherman's March

    • Grant's armies in Virginia remained in a stalemate against Robert E.
    • After a successful two-month campaign, Sherman accepted the surrender of General Joseph E.
    • Johnston and his forces in North Carolina on April 26, 1865.

  • The Battle of Chancellorsville

    • The campaign pitted Union Army Major General Joseph Hooker's Army of the Potomac against General Robert E.
    • After this string of defeats, President Abraham Lincoln became convinced that the Union’s real strategy should lie with defeating General Robert E.
    • Joseph Hooker prior to the campaign.

  • The Battle of Fredericksburg

    • McClellan had stopped Robert E.
    • The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E.
    • Sumner and Joseph Hooker to make multiple frontal assaults against Lieutenant General James Longstreet's position on Marye's Heights, all of which were repulsed with heavy losses.

  • Vocational Training

    • For example, in Saint Joseph, Missouri, a Normal School was added to the local high school to provide a career track for women who wanted to teach.
    • Whiteford, the area's district superintendent, inquired of the University of Missouri to determine if credits from Saint Joseph Normal School could transfer into a baccalaureate program.
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  • Political Critiques of the New Deal

    • In 1934, Long established the Share Our Wealth movement built upon populist slogans of the redistribution of the wealth (e.g., capping personal fortunes, taxation of the rich, guaranteed income, etc.).
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    • 1937 cartoon by Joseph L.