Timothy Smith, an award-winning author of the Civil War in the West, offers us this look at the life and wars of Albert Sidney Johnston, the first Confederate commander in the theater, whom he ...

JOHNSTON, the bogus report of whose capture ... He was engaged in the Black Hawk war, in the Texan war of independence, in the Mexican war, and in the war against the Mormons.

CIVIL WAR: THE UNTOLD STORY examines this well ... On April 6, 1862, a Confederate force of over 40-thousand, led by General Albert Sidney Johnston, launch a surprise attack on Grant.

The most compelling character is the conflicted and eventually martyred Albert Sidney Johnston. Early in the war, Johnston is considered, by some, to be the best general in the Confederacy.

Born in Kentucky, Albert Sidney Johnston began his career serving in ... a ranch in the area now known as Lincoln Heights. When Civil War broke out in April of 1861, Sidney Johnston joined the ...

Gen. JOHNSTON, who was captured at the fall of Fort Donelson, and is now in our hands as a prisoner of war, is one of the five "Generals" of the rebel army. The other four being BEAUREGARD ...

So who was this Johnston guy anyway? Some might consider him a hero. Others might call him notorious as he was Confederate general in the Civil War. Albert Sidney Johnston was a Texas native ...

Shiloh National Military Park encompasses much of the April 1862 Civil War battlefield at Pittsburg ... Buell and 44,000 Confederates under Albert Sidney Johnston (killed in the battle) and ...

but after the Civil War was over, Texans acted to arrange a formal funeral in his home state. This story is based on accounts published in 1878, in "The Life of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston," by ...