Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1807 - 1891
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Jefferson Davis letters and related materials collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0005
Abstract
Original handwritten letters between U.S. Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his government and military colleagues, and his wife, Varina. Colleagues include General William H. Emory, Senator Stephen A. Douglas, Sidney W. Burbank, Secretary of War John B. Floyd, General Joseph E. Johnston, Col. Abraham Myers, General James Chesnut, and William H. Sanders. The bulk of the letters date from the 1850s and 1860s. Additional materials are letters to and from other persons, U.S. and...
Dates:
1838 - 1890
William Williston Heartsill journal
Collection
Identifier: MS 0035
Abstract:
Journal describes Texan Confederate soldier W.W. Heartsill's experiences during the U.S. Civil War, including material related to Texas ranching activities, Indian and Mexican affairs, and botany; the Texas Secession Convention; generals Braxton Bragg, Stonewall Jackson, Joseph E. Johnston, and John W. Whitfield; his work with the W.P. Lane Rangers (later Company F, 2nd Regiment, Texas Calvary); battles of Chickamauga and Vicksburg; prisoners of war; and Confederate Army Trans-Mississippi...
Dates:
1861 - 1866
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- Georgia -- Chickamauga Battlefield 1
- Militia 1
- Mississippi 1
- Mississippi -- Vicksburg 1
- Prisoners of war 1
- Secession 1
- Tennessee 1
- Texas 1
- United States -- Confederate States of America 1
- War 1
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