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Albert Sidney Johnston was born in Washington, Kentucky, on 2 February 1803. He was educated at Transylvania University and then at West Point, where he graduated in 1826. Johnston impressed people with his intelligence and demeanor, and, consequently, he managed to climb the ranks rapidly. He served in the army for many years, and saw action ...
The American Confederate general Albert Sidney Johnston was born at Washington, Mason county, Kentucky, on the 2nd of February 1803. He graduated from West Point in 1826, and served for eight years in the U.S. infantry as a company officer, adjutant, and staff officer. In 1834 he resigned his commission, emigrated in 1836 to Texas, then a ...
- February 2, 1803
- April 6, 1862
May 13, 2021 · The Western Confederate Army never recovered from Albert Sidney Johnston’s April 1862 death at Shiloh. by Timothy B. Smith 5/13/2021. Albert Sidney Johnston graduated eighth in the West Point Class of 1826. In addition to the Civil War, Johnston served in the 1832 Blackhawk War, the 1846-48 Mexican War, and the Utah Expedition of 1857-58.
Date Of Death: April 6, 1862. Place Of Burial: Austin, TX. Cemetery Name: Texas State Cemetery. Though considered at the outset of the war as one of the most promising commanders, North or South, Albert Sidney Johnston's service was brief and his vast potential unrealized. The Kentucky-born Johnston was appointed to West Point from Louisiana ...
Dec 3, 2022 · The monument here marks the site where the Confederate commander, Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, was taken after being found wounded on April 6. That afternoon, Johnston ordered his reserves to go into action and advance on the right flank in an attempt to drive a wedge between the Federal troops and their base of supplies at Pittsburg Landing.
Once his men carried him to a small ravine out of range of the Union soldiers, Albert Johnston died on the Shiloh battlefield on April 6, 1862 of massive blood loss. The man whom Jefferson Davis called the Confederacy's finest general was laid to rest in New Orleans until 1867 when he was re-interred at the Texas State Cemetery with full honors ...
General Albert Sidney Johnston. Inevitably, perhaps, Johnston could not meet the sky-high expectations. Amid all the hoopla, one salient fact was overlooked—Johnston had never commanded an army of his own. To make matters worse, he was given an assignment that even the most experienced of generals would have found daunting.
