Albert Sidney Johnston Collection 1828-1960 1828-1863

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Albert Sidney Johnston Collection 1828-1960 1828-1863

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A graduate of the United States Military Academy in 1826, Johnston served as an officer in the United States Army, the Texas Army, and the Confederate Army. He also served as Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas. Johnston was colonel of the 1st Texas Rifle Volunteers during the Mexican War. He was killed April 6, 1862, at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee while in command of the Western Department of the Confederate Army. Correspondence, financial documents, military records, engravings, photographs, poem, and printed materials. Primarily military records that Johnston produced as Secretary of War, 1836-1840, and as an officer in the United States Army related to his duties as paymaster, quartermaster, and commander of Fort Mason, Texas, 1828, 1842-1861. Includes a manuscript book of general orders recorded during the Mexican War, an 1863 letter from David Burnet to P.W. Gray about the dependent condition of Johnston's family in California, and a letter which describes the scene at Johnston's death by George W. Baylor, 1889. There are also several published articles about Johnston and the Battle of Shiloh, as well as an epitaph poem.

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