Joseph E Johnston A Civil War Biography

Author : Craig L. Symonds
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039328560X
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography written by Craig L. Symonds and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994-06-17 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Riveting. . . . A thoughtful biography." —New York Times Book Review General Joseph E. Johnston was in command of Confederate forces at the South's first victory—Manassas in July 1861—and at its last—Bentonville in April 1965. Many of his contemporaries considered him the greatest southern field commander of the war; others ranked him second only to Robert E. Lee. But Johnston was an enigmatic man. His battlefield victories were never decisive. He failed to save Confederate forces under siege by Grant at Vicksburg, and he retreated into Georgia in the face of Sherman's march. His intense feud with Jefferson Davis ensured the collapse of the Confederacy's western campaign in 1864 and made Johnston the focus of a political schism within the government. Now in this rousing narrative of Johnston's dramatic career, Craig L. Symonds gives us the first rounded portrait of the general as a public and private man.

Author : Bradley Tyler Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Memoir of the Life and Public Service of Joseph E. Johnston written by Bradley Tyler Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dr. Gilbert E. Govan
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787202518
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Different Valor written by Dr. Gilbert E. Govan and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1956, this book is a full account of General Joseph E. Johnston (1807-1891), a career U.S. Army officer who served with distinction in the Mexican-American War and Seminole Wars, and was one of the most senior general officers—second only to General Robert E. Lee—in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Although heartily disliked by Confederate president Jefferson Davis, who often criticized him for a lack of aggressiveness and took every opportunity to sully his opponent’s name, General Johnston’s patriotic devotion to the Southern cause prevented him from resigning, and he rose to gain enormous respect from his major opponents for his actions during a number of campaigns—including General Ulysses S. Grant and Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, who became close friends with Johnston in subsequent years. A leading text for Civil War enthusiasts. Illustrated with 6 detailed maps.

Author : Edward G. Longacre
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806159979
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worthy Opponents written by Edward G. Longacre and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worthy Opponents tells the parallel stories of Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston and Union general William Tecumseh Sherman. Their armies clashed repeatedly, so it was only natural for these two commanding offers to become adversaries. Yet, as the war continued, Johnston and Sherman came to respect each other, eventually becoming close friends. Edward G. Longacre masterfully investigates the entwined lives of these two celebrated generals, bringing to life their personalities, their military styles, and their friendship in this fascinating dual biography.

Author : Richard M. McMurry
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1954547110
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Civil Wars of General Joseph E. Johnston written by Richard M. McMurry and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Eggleston Johnston was one of the original five full Confederate generals. He graduated West Point in the same 1829 class as Robert E. Lee and served in the War with Mexico, the Seminole Wars in Florida, and in Texas and Kansas. By 1860 Johnston was widely looked upon as one of America’s finest military officers. During the Civil War he commanded armies in Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas and served as commander of the entire Western Theater during a critical period of the war. Johnston’s contributions to the war effort, however, remain a lightning rod of controversy. In The Civil Wars of General Joseph E. Johnston, Richard M. McMurry argues persuasively that the Confederacy’s most lethal enemy was the toxic dissension within the top echelons of its high command. The discord between General Johnston and President Jefferson Davis (and others), which began early in the conflict and only worsened as the months passed, routinely prevented the cooperation and coordination the South needed on the battlefield if it was going to achieve its independence. The result was one failed campaign after another, all of which cumulatively doomed the Southern Confederacy. McMurry’s study is not a traditional military biography but a lively and opinionated conversation about major campaigns and battles, strategic goals and accomplishments, and how these men and their decision-making and leadership abilities directly impacted the war effort. Personalities, argues McMurry, win and lose wars, and the military and political leaders who form the focal point of this study could not have been more different (and in the case of Davis and Johnston, more at odds) when it came to making the important and timely decisions necessary to wage the war effectively. The Civil Wars of General Joseph E. Johnston represents a lifetime of study and contemplation that captures Johnston in a way that has never been accomplished. It sheds fresh light on old controversies and compels readers to think about major wartime events in unique and compelling ways. This first installment begins just before the Civil War and ends on the eve of Johnston taking command of the Army of Tennessee in North Georgia. Here, finally, is the definitive study of how qualities of character played an oversized role in determining the outcome of the Civil War.

Author : Christian Ditchfield
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 143814427X
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joseph E. Johnston written by Christian Ditchfield and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a famous general for the South during the Civil War and a representative from Virginia in the United States House of Representatives.

Author : Steven H. Newton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joseph E. Johnston and the Defense of Richmond written by Steven H. Newton and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focusing on the period between mid-February and late May 1862, Newton examines in detail the high-level conferences in Richmond to set strategy and the relationship of the Peninsula campaign to operations in the Shenandoah Valley and the western Confederacy. By examining what [Joseph E.] Johnston actually accomplished rather than speculating on what he might have done, Newton shows that his overall conduct of the campaign holds up well under scrutiny". -- Jacket.

Author : Joseph Eggleston Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative of Military Operations, Directed, During the Late War Between the States written by Joseph Eggleston Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes campaigns of the Civil War from a Confederate view.

Author : Bradley T. Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780795024696
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Joseph E. Johnston, a General in the Army of the Confederate States of America written by Bradley T. Johnson and published by . This book was released on with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Settles
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807149624
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Bankhead Magruder written by Thomas Settles and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the major figures of the Civil War era, Confederate general John Bankhead Magruder is perhaps the least understood. The third-ranking officer in Virginia's forces behind Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston, Magruder left no diary, no completed memoirs, no will, not even a family Bible. There are no genealogical records and very few surviving personal papers. Unsurprisingly, then, much existing literature about Magruder contains incorrect information. In John Bankhead Magruder, an exhaustive biography that reflects more than thirty years of painstaking archival research, Thomas M. Settles remedies the many factual inaccuracies surrounding this enigmatic man and his military career. Settles traces Magruder's family back to its seventeenth-century British American origins, describes his educational endeavors at the University of Virginia and West Point, and details his early military career and his leading role as an artillerist in the war with Mexico. Tall, handsome, and flamboyant, Magruder earned the nickname "Prince John" from his army friends and was known for his impeccable manners and social brilliance. When Virginia seceded in April of 1861, Prince John resigned his commission in the U.S. Army and offered his services to the Confederacy. Magruder won the opening battle of the Civil War at Big Bethel. Later, in spite of severe shortages of weapons and supplies and a lack of support from Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, Samuel Cooper, and Joseph E. Johnston, Prince John, with just 13,600 men, held his position on the Peninsula for a month against George B. McClellan's 105,000-man Federal army. This successful stand, at a time when Richmond was exceedingly vulnerable, provided, according to Settles, John Magruder's greatest contribution to the Confederacy. Following the Seven Days' battles, however, his commanders harshly criticized Magruder for being too slow at Savage Station, then too rash at Malvern Hill and they transferred him to command the District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. In Texas, he skillfully recaptured the port of Galveston in early 1863 and held it for the Confederacy until the end of the war. After the war, he joined the Confederate exodus to Mexico but eventually returned to the United States, living in New York City and New Orleans before settling in Houston, where he died on February 18, 1871. John Bankhead Magruder offers fresh insight into many aspects of the general's life and legacy, including his alleged excesses, his family relationships, and the period between Magruder's death and his memorialization into the canon of Lost Cause mythology. With engaging prose and impressive research, Settles brings this vibrant Civil War figure to life.