Albert Sidney Johnston

Albert Sidney Johnston (1803– 1862) was a career United States Army officer, a Texas Army general, and a Confederate States general. He saw extensive combat during his military career, fighting actions in the Texas War of Independence, the Mexican War, the Utah War, as well as the American Civil War.

Considered by Confederate President Jefferson Davis to be the finest general officer in the Confederacy before the emergence of Robert E. Lee, Johnston was killed early in the Civil War at the Battle of Shiloh and was the highest ranking officer, Union or Confederate, killed during the entire war.

Albert Sidney Johnston in Southern Victory
Albert Sidney Johnston went down in Confederate States history as a martyr, and statues of Johnston would become common throughout the country, including on the National Mall in Richmond. That statue was destroyed when the United States conquered Richmond in 1944.

Before the War of Secession, he commanded a military expedition into Utah in 1857 to put down a Mormon insurrection.

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