CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  JOSEPH J. JOHNSON - Smith County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

JOSEPH J. JOHNSON.

Joseph J, Johnson was born in Hamilton, Harris county, Georgia, 
March 12,1840.  Enlisted in company D. l2th Missisippi, Harris brigade.  
Was in the seven day's fight around Richmond, Gettysburg and 
Wilderness and in the campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia.  
Was captured at Peters­burg before the evacuation and carried to Point 
Look Out, and paroled in July 1865.  Removed to Texas in 1856.  He was 
a son of Henry D. and Lucindy (nee Butler) of his county.  Post office, 
Starrville, Texas.