Browsing named entities in Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans). You can also browse the collection for Frank Johnston or search for Frank Johnston in all documents.

Your search returned 26 results in 3 document sections:

th regiment, Lieut.-Col. W. K. Easterling; the Mississippi batteries of Capt. Robert Bowman, Capt. J. L. Wofford, Lieut. Frank Johnston, Capt. N. J. Drew, Maj. S. M. Ward's light artillery, and Johnston's cavalry company. General Lee was given chJohnston's cavalry company. General Lee was given charge of the line of defenses from Vicksburg to Snyder's Mill on Christmas day, and he at once made skillful arrangements for meeting the enemy. Judging the approaches nearest Vicksburg sufficiently protected by abatis of fallen timber, and the defenheld in check and driven back by Colonel Withers' command, the Forty-sixth Mississippi and two Napoleon guns under Lieutenant Johnston doing admirable work. On the same day a small infantry force which had been landed at Snyder's Mill was withdrawncommended the gallantry of Maj. B. R. Holmes, Capt. J. L. Wofford (who fired the first gun at the enemy), Lieutenants Lockhart and Weems, Lieut. Frank Johnston, Captain Bowman, Lieutenant Tye , Lieutenant Duncan and Lieutenants Cottingham and Guest
unded. During the next day Chalmers' brigade, under Col. T. W.. White, took position in the Round Forest, and struggled for its possession during the day. On January 2d the fight: was renewed here by the batteries of Stanford, Carnes and Smith, supported by Anderson's and other brigades. After the bloody defeat of Breckinridge on the other side of the river, Anderson moved to his support, and remained in line of battle January 3d. In the Virginia and Maryland campaigns of 1862, under Johnston, Jackson and Lee, Mississippians were also conspicuous. Mississippians were on guard at Yorktown under Magruder during April, 1862, and in the sortie of April 5th the Second battalion, Lieut.-Col. John G. Taylor, demonstrated their valor; and in the battle at Dam No. 1, April 16th, a part of the Seventeenth was engaged. At Williamsburg, the Nineteenth, Col. C. H. Mott, was very actively in the fight. Captain Macon, skirmishing in the woods in front, was desperately wounded, but while in
is regiment engaged did gallant duty. Lieut. Frank Johnston was in immediate command of a section art of the day, at the first of the fighting, Johnston's section and Ratcliff's, the latter commande section under the immediate command of Lieutenant Johnston. A shot from the enemy's artillery stack the axle of the gun under command of Lieutenant Johnston, throwing the gun from the trunnion bedcaps, which Johnston had been asked to send. Johnston also sent a message that he was expecting reiere sent back and forth between Pemberton and Johnston. May 26th to June 4th an expedition under ederate supplies which might be available for Johnston. He reported: I used all we could and destro our redan. Pemberton made another appeal to Johnston: My men have been thirty-four days and nightsot afford. He then proceeded to suggest that Johnston propose to Grant to pass the army out with arto assist on the west side, had fallen back. Johnston felt encouraged to hope that something might [11 more...]