Jane Johnson
Williams, Ancestor
Kit Number: 84683, John Lamar Johnson
Soldier: James Sylvanus
Johnson [father born in Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1791.]
Rank:
Private
Unit 27th Mississippi
Regiment, Walthall's Brigade, Army of Tennessee, Company I. (eye, not one)
Service:
Pensacola, Florida, Mobile Alabama
Transferred to Chattanooga, Tennessee, became part of
Bragg's Army, invasion of Kentucky.
Second Bombardment at Pensacola.
Perryville, Kentucky October 1862; Murfreesboro, Tennessee;
Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain,
Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Cassville, New Hope church,
Kennesaw Mountain,
22 July - Atlanta, Ezra church, Jonesboro, Franklin,
Tennessee and Nashville.
Sustained several slight wounds.
His brother, Samuel M. Johnson was sergeant in this same
unit.
Enlisted: Walnut Grove, Mississippi, in 1861.
Surrendered: By General Joseph E. Johnson to General William
T. Sherman at Greensboro, North Carolina
On 26th April 1865, he began to walk home.
My ancestor was in some of the bloodiest battles of the
Civil War. Family legend holds that he would never talk about the war except
with his "fellow comrades." The family lived in a Victorian home and
when his army buddies would visit, he would put the children to bed, take the
visitor in the parlor, close the doors and they would talk all night. Must have
been a horrible experience. (JJW)