1-344-894 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Confederate general, 1862-1867. One of the senior generals of the Confederacy during the Civil War, Johnston's (1807-1891) effectiveness as a commander was undermined by his excessive caution and a difficult relationship with the Confederate President, Jefferson Davis. An engraving from volume III of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.