Yankee Quaker, Confederate General

Book excerpt: He had written to a superior about profits that could be made in the "black-market" of Vera Cruz. Two modern successful schools trace their descent from the military academy in Kentucky and Tennessee that Johnson next operated, but the guns at Fort Sumter closed his classes in 1861. To return to the Union Army would revise the old scandal, so he joined the Confederacy's forces at the same time that his own abolitionist kinfolk were helping the underground railroad in Indiana. Johnson's troops did most of the fighting at Fort Donelson; he slipped away from his captors after the surrender to Grant. Then he was wounded at Shiloh. His brigade spearheaded the assault on the union center at Perryville. First perceived the "gap" in Rosecrans lines at Chickamauga, he led the smashing attack that set off the disintegration of the Union right wing, which was saved from complete route only by the stand of his classmate George Thomas on Snodgrass Hill. Johnson was promoted to Maj. Gen.