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Definition of Joseph Eggleston Johnston
1. Noun. Confederate general in the American Civil War; led the Confederate troops in the West (1807-1891).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Joseph Eggleston Johnston
Literary usage of Joseph Eggleston Johnston
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Leading American Soldiers by Robert Matteson Johnston (1907)
"Joseph Eggleston Johnston JOHNSTON, like Lee, belonged to a planter family of
Virginia with aristocratic and military traditions. ..."
2. Lee Ad His Lieutenants: Comprising the Early Life, Public Services, and by Edward Albert Pollard (1867)
"GENERAL Joseph Eggleston Johnston. CHAPTER XXIX. Some account of "the first
families" of Virginia.—Ancestry of Joseph Eggleston Johnston. ..."
3. General Joseph Wheeler and the Army of the Tennessee by John Witherspoon Du Bose (1912)
"CHAPTER XIV 1864 Joseph Eggleston Johnston When General Bragg saw that the
fragments of his routed army from Missionary Ridge had stopped at Dalton he ..."
4. The Early Life, Campaigns, and Public Services of Robert E. Lee: With a by Edward Alfred Pollard (1871)
"Ancestry of Joseph Eggleston Johnston.—Peter Johnston in the Revolutionary War,
and in the State councils of Virginia.—Early life of Joseph E. Johnston. ..."
5. Heroes in Gray by Samuel Wells Sherrill (1909)
"GENERAL Joseph Eggleston Johnston. General Joseph Eggleston Johnston was born in
Prince Edward county, Virginia, February 3rd, 1807, and died March 21st, ..."
6. Heroes of the Army in America by Charles Morris (1919)
"Joseph Eggleston Johnston was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, February
3, 1807, his mother being a niece of Patrick Henry, the famous orator of the ..."
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