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 ...

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 ...

Lee and three other Confederate-era figures — Albert Sidney Johnston, John Reagan and James ... The Texas Tribune reports: "Hogg was alive during the Civil War, but was too young to serve.

(Albert Sidney Johnston, an 1826 graduate of West Point, later served with distinction for a number of years in the U.S. Army. When the Civil War began, Johnston joined the Confederacy as a general.

The subject of his presentation was “Sidney Albert ... Civil War. He was killed early in the Civil War at the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862, and is buried in the Texas State Cemetery ...