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Johnston

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John·ston  (jnstn), Albert Sidney 1803-1862.
American Confederate general in the Civil War. He was defeated by Ulysses S. Grant at Shiloh (1862).
Johnston, Joseph Eggleston 1807-1891.
American Confederate general in the Civil War who surrendered to William Tecumseh Sherman in 1865.
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Noun1.JohnstonJohnston - Confederate general in the American Civil War; led the Confederate troops in the West (1807-1891)
J. E. Johnston, Joseph Eggleston Johnston


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The rabble by shouting and noise having increased their numbers to several thousands, they began with Sir Patrick Johnston, who was one of the treaters, and the year before had been Lord Provost.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
So rapidly did he gain the esteem of his new companions, that when they reached the end of their wanderings, it was unanimously agreed that he should be provided with as large and as fertile a tract of land as any of the settlers, with the exception of Young himself, and of Stangerson, Kemball, Johnston, and Drebber, who were the four principal Elders.
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