Joseph Eggleston Johnston (February 3, 1807 - March 21, 1891) was a career U.S. Army officer and one of the most senior generals in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. His effectiveness was undercut by tensions with President Jefferson Davis, but he also suffered from a lack of aggressiveness and victory eluded him in every campaign he personally commanded. Wikipedia
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Petty considerations over rank and military etiquette and wounds cost the Confederacy, for lengthy periods, the services of one of its most effective, top commanders, Joseph E. Johnston. The Virginia native and West Pointer (1829), rated by many as more www.civilwarhome.com/joejohnston.htm
Joseph Eggleston Johnston was born at Farmville in Prince Edward County, Virginia , and was graduated from the U.S. Military Academy , in 1829. www.u-s-history.com/pages/h187.html
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