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Johnson, Richard W.

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Johnson, Richard W. (1827–97) Union army officer born near Smithland, Kentucky. Johnson failed to achieve distinction in any of his many encounters during the Civil War. His division was routed by Confederates at Stones River (1862–63) and was responsible for turning a potential victory into a defeat at Pickett's Mill (1864) during the Atlanta campaign. His troops performed adequately at Chickamauga (1863) and at Chattanooga (1863); his command of a cavalry division during the defeat of Gen. John B. Hood in Tennessee (1864) was seen as little more than satisfactory.

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Richard W. Johnson

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Richard W. Johnson 1827–97, Union general in the Civil War, b. Livingston co., Ky., grad. West Point, 1849. Before the Civil War he served principally on the frontier. Johnson, made a brigadier general of volunteers in Oct., 1861, served as a division commander in the Armies of the Ohio and the Cumberland. He fought at Shiloh and Murfreesboro and in the Chattanooga and Atlanta campaigns. After his service at the battle of Nashville in Dec., 1864, he was brevetted major general.

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