Join as we explore the life and times of Joseph Eggleston Johnston, all at once a serious, friendly, difficult, courageous, annoying, loyal, adventurous man. He managed to join most of American’s fights after attending West Point, and would go on to become the very first West Pointer to ever attain a General’s rank. Yet he gave it all up to go South.

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